• texst to a landline

    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 08:21:28 2025
    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to micky on Fri Jan 3 13:38:34 2025
    micky wrote:

    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jan 3 09:31:44 2025
    In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 13:38:34 +0000, Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some
    indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to >text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?

    I don't know. I don't think so. For several years I have beeen the
    contact person for the people who plow (plough?) our streets when it
    snows. I saw the contract yesterday and it has my landline first, and
    my cell number. I'm still living in the 1950's and I envisioned them
    calling me on the phone, but now I see they send texts. I got one on
    the cell a year ago and another yesterday. I've never gotten any
    message from them on my landline, so I wonder if they tried and realized
    it wasn't accepting texts and they switched to the other number. --- A
    couple weeks ago they came out and salted the roads(not straight salt
    but some better concoction) and then it didn't snow at all, but they
    charged us 2000 dollars. Because of details in our favor in the
    contract, we are refusing to pay. I'm trying to prevent a second
    mix-up.

    I googled your question and so-called AI says "Yes, US landlines can
    accept text messages, but they are not designed to do so by default:

    How it works
    To receive texts, you need to set up your landline with a text to
    landline service. When you send a text to a landline, the service
    records your message in a female voice and calls the recipient's phone.
    If the recipient answers, they can choose to accept the message. If the
    call goes to voicemail, the recording is delivered there."

    I use Verizon landline but it's VOIP. VErizon is a very big company
    here.

    Hmmm. This came up just a couple nights ago also. I'm been sick and
    wanted my food delivered. I set that up during the pandemic, and it
    worked, but now it's changed and wants to send me a code and it only has
    my landline, so I get no code. I can't change the phone number, because
    they want to send a text to the original number telling me I'm changing
    it. LOL Maybe if I can set up text to landline, I won't have to open
    a new account.

    OTOH, heres a message from last April: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-can-i-receive-a-text-on-a-landline/0bd1f02d-904e-4585-9a50-1d7b3091e4f6
    I'm trying to log in into my account. I had this phone number linked to
    my account back in the 2017 or 2018 when I first made it and I could
    receive a call. Now I don't know why they removed this option. I just
    want to log in back to my account to reset my PIN because I'm receiving
    an error message.

    Microsoft answers "Landlines are not eligible for verification codes.
    The landline is also a landline phone, which can only make and receive
    calls, and does not have the function of sending and receiving text
    messages." So you seem to know more than they do!

    One VErizon page which doesn't say if it's talking about true landline
    or voip / FIOS landline says it can be set up and will cost me 25 cents
    for each text I get, and I w9ll probably get spam The page also has no
    date . How can a responsible company print date dependent information
    and not give the date ? I don't know but i see it often .

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to micky on Fri Jan 3 15:26:38 2025
    On 03.01.25 14:21, micky wrote:
    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?

    Here fixed lines get SMS. For about 20years now?

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to micky on Fri Jan 3 18:23:22 2025
    micky <[email protected]> wrote:
    In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 13:38:34 +0000, Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some
    indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to >text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?

    I don't know. I don't think so. For several years I have beeen the
    contact person for the people who plow (plough?) our streets when it
    snows. I saw the contract yesterday and it has my landline first, and
    my cell number. I'm still living in the 1950's and I envisioned them
    calling me on the phone, but now I see they send texts. I got one on
    the cell a year ago and another yesterday. I've never gotten any
    message from them on my landline, so I wonder if they tried and realized
    it wasn't accepting texts and they switched to the other number.

    Sigh! As you have a landline, why don't *you* try/test it, instead of
    asking here for an impossible to give answer (because it depends on your
    and their telco and setups).

    If it works for you, it will also work for them, because in that test
    your landline telco and their setup is the deciding factor.

    If it does not work for you, it doesn't mean it doesn't work for them,
    so it's undecided and the only things you can do is ask them to test it
    or remove your landline number from their contact list. In most cases,
    the 'customer', i.e. you, should be able to do that themselves, but that depends on how customer-friendly their IT is.

    [...]

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Fri Jan 3 19:02:34 2025
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
    micky wrote:

    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it can't receive texts?

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?

    For my setup in The Netherlands (Vodafone mobile, Ziggo VOIP landline
    (via cable Internet) it does not work. Landline phone doesn't ring, SMS
    on the smartphone silently fails, but is charged by Vodafone :-).

    But this of course depends on the telcos and setups at either end, so
    I think one can not give a definite answer for a particular country (let
    alone worldwide), unless *all* telcos and setups in that country provide
    this functionality, which is unlikely, especially in 'civilized'
    countries where there are umpteen of telcos and setups.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Frank Slootweg on Fri Jan 3 19:17:46 2025
    Frank Slootweg wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to
    text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ...

    For my setup in The Netherlands (Vodafone mobile, Ziggo VOIP landline
    (via cable Internet) it does not work. Landline phone doesn't ring, SMS
    on the smartphone silently fails, but is charged by Vodafone :-).
    I recently converted my PSTN+VDSL service to VDSL-only, which frees up
    the PSTN number and can either be dropped, or ported to a VoIP provider.

    I sent a text from my mobile (O2/Telefonica) to my VoIP landline,
    previously it would arrive as text, because I have a gigaset DECT which
    is CLI/SMS compatible, but today it arrived using the fallback robot
    voice method.

    Trying to send a text from the DECT to mobile did nothing, except return
    an error after several minutes.

    Not sure if there's a method for SMSoVoIP? Given that T.38 exists for FAXoVoIP, I presume there's a standard somewhere?

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to micky on Fri Jan 3 15:38:59 2025
    On 1/3/2025 8:21 AM, micky wrote:
    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?


    That used to be the case. I use a landline and rarely use my cellphone,
    so I don't give out that number. But cellphone addicts assume all phones
    are cellphones. Until maybe 2 years ago, they would get a message that
    they were trying to text a landline. Then they'd call me. Now they get no message. They just tell me later that they've been texting me and I
    have to rail at them for being an idiot.

    I don't know why the change. It can't go through, so why pretend
    that it did? It's possible that these people are just not paying attention,
    but it's happened to me with multiple people, so I think they're just
    getting no feedback.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to micky on Fri Jan 3 15:48:25 2025
    On 1/3/2025 9:31 AM, micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been suprisingly unsuccessful.


    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through? If the sender converts it to voice then
    that's a recorded audio message, not a text. You can't convert it
    to voice on your end because you can't receive it in the first place.

    I've occasionally come across websites that offer an audio
    recording for 2FA. The robot voice calls and recites a code. But
    even with that, as I recall, they refused to provide the service
    once I had an account set up, so I could no longer use my
    account! Apparently they thought I was just kidding about not
    having a cellphone.

    Most people live on their cellphones, so it's highly unlikely that
    anyone is going to take the trouble to set up a text-to-speech
    conversion just for you. I've found this repeatedly. I fill out a form
    giving my home phone, but somehow they record it as my cellphone...
    It's got to a point where many people refuse to even understand
    the concept of a landline.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 20:52:02 2025
    Newyana2 wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.

    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through?

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Fri Jan 3 22:24:41 2025
    On 03.01.25 21:52, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.

    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through?

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist
    anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.


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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 22:41:57 2025
    On 2025-01-03 21:38, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 8:21 AM, micky wrote:
    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some
    indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
    can't receive texts?


      That used to be the case. I use a landline and rarely use my cellphone, so I don't give out that number. But cellphone addicts assume all phones
    are cellphones. Until maybe 2 years ago, they would get a message that
    they were trying to text a landline. Then they'd call me. Now they get no message. They just tell me later that they've been texting me and I
    have to rail at them for being an idiot.

    In countries like mine, you can know by looking at the first digit if a
    phone number is landline or mobile. But not in the north american continent.

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    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 22:37:44 2025
    On 2025-01-03 21:48, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 9:31 AM, micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.


     There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through? If the sender converts it to voice then
    that's a recorded audio message, not a text. You can't convert it
    to voice on your end because you can't receive it in the first place.

    Yes, there is such a thing.

    The telephone exchange converts the text to machine voice, and then
    phones you.

    This service depends on the company and the country, and possibly on contracting the service. It is not universal.

    I tried it long ago here (Spain) and quickly disabled it.
    I think messages were delivered only at a more or less
    fixed hour.


    Then, if the landline is actually a true VoIp intelligent phone, it may
    also receive texts. There is a display. I don't know if this is done,
    but I think it is feasible.

    A true VoIp phone is connected to an ethernet cable or to a WiFi, not to
    a copper pair. It is a small computer, not a traditional landline dumb
    phone.

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    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 22:17:53 2025
    On 03.01.25 21:48, Newyana2 wrote:
    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through?

    I would suggest to check the screen.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Fri Jan 3 20:06:23 2025
    On 1/3/2025 3:52 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.

    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through?

    Aren't DECT phone common over there?� Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.


    I don't know what DECT or POTS mean. We have landlines
    that can be direct phone wires or VOIP. Either way, the
    phones are the same. There's room for maybe 12 letter in
    the Caller ID display and no facility to receive a text.
    They can receive an audio message, but then, who's going
    to go to the trouble to sned an audio message when most of
    the people they know have texting?

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Fri Jan 3 20:11:49 2025
    On 1/3/2025 4:41 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    In countries like mine, you can know by looking at the first digit if a
    phone number is landline or mobile. But not in the north american
    continent.


    That's a good idea. Phone numbers mean almost nothing in
    the US anymore. Anyone can get any area code, which is the
    first 3 numbers. At this point I no longer pick up for "local"
    calls because they're probably not local. If it doesn't show
    the name of someone I know then I let the answering
    machine get it. Unfortunately, most people with cellphones
    have not registered for Caller ID, and I don't store numbers in
    my phone. It's not worth the trouble to have speed dialing.
    So I only recognize a small number of callers.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Chris on Fri Jan 3 20:07:24 2025
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

    There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 02:51:53 2025
    On 2025-01-04 02:11, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 4:41 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    In countries like mine, you can know by looking at the first digit if
    a phone number is landline or mobile. But not in the north american
    continent.


      That's a good idea. Phone numbers mean almost nothing in
    the US anymore. Anyone can get any area code, which is the
    first 3 numbers. At this point I no longer pick up for "local"
    calls because they're probably not local. If it doesn't show
    the name of someone I know then I let the answering
    machine get it. Unfortunately, most people with cellphones
    have not registered for Caller ID, and I don't store numbers in
    my phone. It's not worth the trouble to have speed dialing.
    So I only recognize a small number of callers.

    The registering for Caller ID is an NA feature, it doesn't exist in
    other countries. Here you only get the number. The names are local to
    your terminal.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 02:47:01 2025
    On 2025-01-04 02:06, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 3:52 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.

    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through?

    Aren't DECT phone common over there?  Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.


      I don't know what DECT or POTS mean.

    Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a cordless
    telephony standard maintained by ETSI. It originated in Europe, where it
    is the common standard, replacing earlier standards, such as CT1 and
    CT2. Since the DECT-2020 standard onwards, it also includes IoT
    communication.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT


    Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), or Plain Ordinary Telephone
    System[1], is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service that employs
    analog signal transmission over copper loops. The term POTS originally
    stood for Post Office Telephone Service, as early telephone lines in
    many regions were operated directly by local Post Offices. For instance,
    in New Zealand, the telephone system remained under Post Office control
    until the 1980s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service


    The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the
    world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or
    local telephony operators. It provides infrastructure and services for
    public telephony. The PSTN consists of telephone lines, fiber-optic
    cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks, communications satellites, and undersea telephone cables interconnected by switching
    centers, such as central offices, network tandems, and international
    gateways, which allow telephone users to communicate with each other.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network

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    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 02:48:42 2025
    On 2025-01-04 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

      There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    Is that in the third world, a disadvantaged country? (SCNR)

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 09:07:11 2025
    On 04.01.25 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

    There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    As far as state of the art telecom services are concerned, they are one
    or two decades behind Europe. Not only with fixed line services.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sat Jan 4 09:08:08 2025
    On 04.01.25 02:48, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

      There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    Is that in the third world, a disadvantaged country? (SCNR)

    No doubt about that. *SCNR* either.


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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Chris on Sat Jan 4 09:10:55 2025
    On 03.01.25 23:37, Chris wrote:
    Carlos E.R. <[email protected]d> wrote:
    In countries like mine, you can know by looking at the first digit if a
    phone number is landline or mobile. But not in the north american continent. >>

    Same in the UK. Numbers starting 01/02/03 are landlines and those starting
    07 are mobile or other "special" numbers like pagers.

    That is the rule all over Europe. The first three digits allow a
    judgement which operator is used. Unfortunately the number portability
    is diluting that more and more.


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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 09:42:21 2025
    Newyana2 wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there?  Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

      I don't know what DECT

    I suspected they hadn't really caught-on over there, they're digital
    cordless (mostly home) phones, so they tend to have a lot of mobile-like features, such as a graphical display. Though mostly people associate
    texting only with mobiles.

    or POTS mean.

    I specifically said POTS because I believed you used that term (plain
    old telephone service) rather than PSTN, oh well.

    We have landlines
    that can be direct phone wires or VOIP. Either way, the
    phones are the same.

    Same here.

    There's room for maybe 12 letter in
    the Caller ID display and no facility to receive a text.
    They can receive an audio message, but then, who's going
    to go to the trouble to sned an audio message when most of
    the people they know have texting?

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sat Jan 4 09:31:49 2025
    Carlos E.R. wrote:

    The telephone exchange converts the text to machine voice, and then
    phones you.

    This service depends on the company and the country, and possibly on contracting the service. It is not universal.

       I tried it long ago here (Spain) and quickly disabled it.
       I think messages were delivered only at a more or less
       fixed hour.

    Here, it will phone you any time of day with the voice messages, there
    is an IVR number you can call to set a curfew for voice delivery, or
    just turn it off altogether.

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 4 10:21:02 2025
    Jörg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 03.01.25 21:52, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
    suprisingly unsuccessful.

    There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
    even if it did come through?

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.

    There are still **some** POTS lines in the UK, but they are being
    phased out.

    --
    Chris Green
    ·

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Chris on Sat Jan 4 10:25:48 2025
    Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

    In the UK receiving txt messages via landline is (was? I've not had one for ages) commonplace: texts are delivered as an automated voice message.

    Yes, still true, it depends on the way the SMS gets sent to you
    though. We have DECT phones on a landline which isn't yet VOIP.
    The DECT handsets can receive and display SMS but, as I said,
    depending on the sender and intermediate systems, we sometimes get an
    actual text and other times a computer generated voice reading the
    message.

    --
    Chris Green
    ·

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 12:19:47 2025
    On 04.01.25 10:31, Andy Burns wrote:
    Carlos E.R. wrote:

    The telephone exchange converts the text to machine voice, and then
    phones you.

    This service depends on the company and the country, and possibly on
    contracting the service. It is not universal.

       I tried it long ago here (Spain) and quickly disabled it.
       I think messages were delivered only at a more or less
       fixed hour.

    Here, it will phone you any time of day with the voice messages, there
    is an IVR number you can call to set a curfew for voice delivery, or
    just turn it off altogether.

    In the IP world such things are done in the personal webaccount.

    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 12:47:19 2025
    On 2025-01-04 09:07, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
    On 04.01.25 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

    There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    As far as state of the art telecom services are concerned, they are one
    or two decades behind Europe. Not only with fixed line services.

    Which is weird, considering that they built very good PSTN hardware,
    state of the art, which was installed both sides of the pond. I'm
    thinking of the Lucent aka AT&T 5ESSS, for instance, witch which I worked.

    Of course, they charged per feature, so the operators would not activate
    all the features.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 12:46:34 2025
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Here, it will phone you any time of day with the voice messages, there
    is an IVR number you can call to set a curfew for voice delivery, or
    just turn it off altogether.

    In the IP world such things are done in the personal webaccount.
    Here, the SMS doesn't seem to make it as far as my VoIP provider, it
    seems to get intercepted by BT/Openreach and delivered by voice to my
    VoIP provider. I haven't had any online account with BT for about 2
    decades.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 12:55:42 2025
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.
    I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries
    are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only
    Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and
    even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sat Jan 4 08:37:59 2025
    On 1/3/2025 8:48 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

    � There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    Is that in the third world, a disadvantaged country? (SCNR)


    It's Rome to you, buddy boy. :) We're the seat of
    worldwide culture, while everyone else is in what we
    call the boondocks. Spongebob Squarepants?
    American. Cocoa Puffs? American. Taylor Swift?
    American. I rest my case. If they ever invent hot
    fudge sundae flavored Pepsi, that, too, will be American.

    What have you people got? Shakespeare. History.
    Literacy. The Renaissance. Big woop. If you're so smart,
    why did Spongebob and Lucky Charms originate in the US?

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 08:20:48 2025
    On 1/4/2025 4:42 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

    �� I don't know what DECT

    I suspected they hadn't really caught-on over there, they're digital
    cordless (mostly home) phones, so they tend to have a lot of mobile-like features, such as a graphical display.� Though mostly people associate texting only with mobiles.


    Yes, that's unfamiliar. I didn't know there was such a thing.
    In Carlos's description he says it serves the IoT. Here that's only
    possible via ethernet or wifi. So I guess I'm glad my dryer can't
    jump online through my phone line.

    Though I'm still not completely clear about this. My landline
    has cordless extensions and a limited graphical display. It has
    caller ID and I can choose to program in numbers to be blocked.
    However, it does not have wireless connection to any network.
    It's still a landline -- what you apparently call POTS. The only
    change is updated hardware.

    DECT sounds like it's truly wireless, connecting via towers
    like cellphones? Or via wifi as wireless VOIP? Or maybe via
    telephone pole receivers that you can see out the windy? :)

    or POTS mean.

    I specifically said POTS because I believed you used that term (plain
    old telephone service) rather than PSTN, oh well.


    Probably true, but this sounds like engineer or historian talk.
    We used to talk about telephones. Now we talk about landlines
    or cellular. No one has ever needed technical acronyms. But I
    was unaware that there were fundamentally different systems
    operating elsewhere.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Chris on Sat Jan 4 08:25:37 2025
    On 1/4/2025 3:35 AM, Chris wrote:
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

    There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    So what? Doesn't change the facts.


    Yes, it does. I also didn't know that the systems were
    different, but what Andy described does not exist in the US.
    We have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell.
    And we now have cellphones, which require transmission
    towers. About 1/3 of the US still doesn't even have cell
    access.

    I'm not sure, but I think Micky is in the US. Is so then
    he cannot receive texts over his landline He can only
    receive audio.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sat Jan 4 08:52:13 2025
    On 1/4/2025 6:47 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 09:07, J�rg Lorenz wrote:
    On 04.01.25 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

    �� There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    As far as state of the art telecom services are concerned, they are one
    or two decades behind Europe. Not only with fixed line services.

    Which is weird, considering that they built very good PSTN hardware,
    state of the art, which was installed both sides of the pond. I'm
    thinking of the Lucent aka AT&T 5ESSS, for instance, witch which I worked.

    Of course, they charged per feature, so the operators would not activate
    all the features.


    I'm not a history expert, but I think there are probably two
    main factors. One is that corporations have great power here.
    Patents, monopoly and scam marketing are rampant limitations.
    I get flyers from Verizon for their fiberoptic service that have
    maybe 500 words of disclaimers on them that I can't even read
    with my glasses on. It's absurd. That text lists the endless
    number of restrictions and gotchas that apply to their advertised
    sale price. And it doesn't even detail all of them. Which means it's
    not possible to actually find out the price of the service!

    Cellphones are similar. A few years ago I went around to each
    of 4 companies to find out what their rates were. All started at
    $39.99. Not one of them could tell me what the actual cost would
    be after they added in mickey mouse fees. A woman who was in
    one store to pay her bill was nice enough to show me hers. It was
    about $80 -- twice the advertised rate.

    We were forced to rent telephones until they broke up Bell
    Telephone. Long distance calls only became affordable much
    later. To this day I wouldn't call Europe. I have no idea what
    it would cost.

    The other difference in the US is that it's largely rural. I have
    a brother with no home cellphone access and who only recently
    got Internet via cable. That's common. It's expensive to run
    the wires. Companies don't want to maintain old wires and they
    don't want to put up towers in sparsely populated areas.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 15:06:26 2025
    On 2025-01-04 13:55, Andy Burns wrote:
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there?  Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist
    anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.
    I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries
    are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only
    Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and
    even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...

    In Spain Telefónica claims to have done it. Users that have not been
    switched to fibre have radio now.

    I don't know about other companies, but for example the old ONO,
    currently Vodafone, installed fibre to the block, coaxial to the home,
    then copper pair to the room. I don't know what exact technology.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 15:12:18 2025
    On 2025-01-04 14:20, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 4:42 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

       I don't know what DECT

    I suspected they hadn't really caught-on over there, they're digital
    cordless (mostly home) phones, so they tend to have a lot of mobile-
    like features, such as a graphical display.  Though mostly people
    associate texting only with mobiles.


      Yes, that's unfamiliar. I didn't know there was such a thing.
    In Carlos's description he says it serves the IoT. Here that's only
    possible via ethernet or wifi. So I guess I'm glad my dryer can't
    jump online through my phone line.

      Though I'm still not completely clear about this. My landline
    has cordless extensions and a limited graphical display. It has
    caller ID and I can choose to program in numbers to be blocked.
    However, it does not have wireless connection to any network.
    It's still a landline -- what you apparently call POTS. The only
    change is updated hardware.

      DECT sounds like it's truly wireless, connecting via towers
    like cellphones? Or via wifi as wireless VOIP? Or maybe via
    telephone pole receivers that you can see out the windy? :)

    No. DECT phones connect by radio to a base at your home, which is
    connected to the copper pair.

    You can see a photo of the base station on the wikipedia article.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT


    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 13:39:11 2025
    Newyana2 wrote:

    In Carlos's description he says it serves the IoT. Here that's only
    possible via ethernet or wifi. So I guess I'm glad my dryer can't
    jump online through my phone line.

    I think the IoT aspect is new, mine doesn't have it, the DECT
    base-station does have bluetooth to link to a mobile phone (which was
    rubbish quality last time I tried).

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 14:01:04 2025
    Newyana2 wrote:

    what Andy described does not exist in the US.
    We have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell.
    And we now have cellphones

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    Since the introduction of VoIP, the DECT base may connect to an analogue adapter, or the adapter may be built-in to the ISP router, or the base
    may connect to your router via ethernet.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 4 15:22:37 2025
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 4:42 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

       I don't know what DECT

    I suspected they hadn't really caught-on over there, they're digital cordless (mostly home) phones, so they tend to have a lot of mobile-like features, such as a graphical display.  Though mostly people associate texting only with mobiles.


    Yes, that's unfamiliar. I didn't know there was such a thing.
    In Carlos's description he says it serves the IoT. Here that's only
    possible via ethernet or wifi. So I guess I'm glad my dryer can't
    jump online through my phone line.

    Though I'm still not completely clear about this. My landline
    has cordless extensions and a limited graphical display. It has
    caller ID and I can choose to program in numbers to be blocked.
    However, it does not have wireless connection to any network.
    It's still a landline -- what you apparently call POTS. The only
    change is updated hardware.

    I think you might be using DECT without realising it. eg from a search on Amazon.com for 'cordless phone', #4 is an AT&T branded DECT base and handset:

    https://www.amazon.com/AT-BL102-2-2-Handset-Answering-Unsurpassed/dp/B086QB7WZ1

    and similar are at #6, #9, #11, #12. Most of the others are Panasonic or V-Tech, many of which have DECT in the title too.

    What model of cordless landline phone do you have?

    Theo

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Theo on Sat Jan 4 11:32:52 2025
    On 1/4/2025 10:22 AM, Theo wrote:

    I think you might be using DECT without realising it. eg from a search on Amazon.com for 'cordless phone', #4 is an AT&T branded DECT base and handset:

    https://www.amazon.com/AT-BL102-2-2-Handset-Answering-Unsurpassed/dp/B086QB7WZ1

    and similar are at #6, #9, #11, #12. Most of the others are Panasonic or V-Tech, many of which have DECT in the title too.

    What model of cordless landline phone do you have?


    Panasonic. But note that the phone in the picture has an
    antenna. Mine is wired directly to the phone line, which
    goes to the VOIP device but used to go to a modem and
    before that wen't to public telephone lines. The extensions
    are wireless, but not the base station/answering machine.

    I've never seen a fully wireless landline. But maybe it's not
    really different. Using radio waves to get to the phone line is
    not fundamentally changing the technology. The phone in the
    picture has the same basic display and functions. The only
    difference seems to be that it doesn't need to be direct-wired.

    If DECT eventually goes to the landline
    then it would seem that the lack of landline texting in the
    US may be more due to simple lack of support rather than
    technical issues. Not that I mind. I have no interest in
    receiving 100 characters of misspelled trivia, scrolling
    across my tiny phone screen like news headlines. As it
    stands, I'm glad that people can't text me.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sat Jan 4 11:24:21 2025
    On 1/4/2025 9:12 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    No. DECT phones connect by radio to a base at your home, which is
    connected to the copper pair.

    You can see a photo of the base station on the wikipedia article.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT

    Ah. We have almost that. Multiple phones talk to each other.
    But one must be wired directly.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 17:36:31 2025
    On 04.01.25 14:37, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 8:48 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 02:07, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/3/2025 5:34 PM, Chris wrote:

      There's no such thing.

    There certainly is.

    I'm talking about the US.

    Is that in the third world, a disadvantaged country? (SCNR)


    It's Rome to you, buddy boy. :) We're the seat of
    worldwide culture, while everyone else is in what we
    call the boondocks. Spongebob Squarepants?
    American. Cocoa Puffs? American. Taylor Swift?
    American. I rest my case. If they ever invent hot
    fudge sundae flavored Pepsi, that, too, will be American.

    What have you people got? Shakespeare. History.
    Literacy. The Renaissance. Big woop. If you're so smart,
    why did Spongebob and Lucky Charms originate in the US?

    Idiot.


    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 17:33:47 2025
    On 04.01.25 13:55, Andy Burns wrote:
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist
    anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.
    I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries
    are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only
    Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and
    even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...

    Nonsense. Switzerland ended POTS/PSTN 2017.

    Scandinavia and Switzerland are at least 5 year rather 10 ahead of
    Germany which is massively underdeveloped compared to Switzerland and Scandinavia. Worse so in mobile telecommunication.

    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 11:38:13 2025
    On 1/4/2025 9:01 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    what Andy described does not exist in the US.
    We have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell.
    And we now have cellphones

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    Since the introduction of VoIP, the DECT base may connect to an analogue adapter, or the adapter may be built-in to the ISP router, or the base
    may connect to your router via ethernet.


    The more we talk about this, the more it seems that DECT
    merely refers to having a wired base station with wireless
    extensions. That's common in the US. So maybe texting
    to landlines is really a separate issue. In general it seems
    silly, anyway. Most people now use cellphones, and landline
    displays are very poorly suited to texting. There would be no
    reason to add the functionality.

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  • From AJL@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 09:40:44 2025
    On 1/4/2025 6:25 AM, Newyana2 wrote:

    We [US] have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell. And
    we now have cellphones, which require transmission towers. About 1/3
    of the US still doesn't even have cell access.

    There's a 3rd wired option at my [US] house. My 5 year old Samsung
    Galaxy S10+ has WiFi Calling which uses my home wired cable system and
    switches automatically to cell when I leave. No need for a POTS system
    anymore which of course I got rid of...

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 17:42:02 2025
    On 04.01.25 15:01, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    what Andy described does not exist in the US.
    We have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell.
    And we now have cellphones

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    DECT has absolutely nothing to do with the backend of the telefon-system
    in a house. It is simply a radio standard.

    Since the introduction of VoIP, the DECT base may connect to an analogue adapter, or the adapter may be built-in to the ISP router, or the base
    may connect to your router via ethernet.

    Exclusively internet routers are used.


    DECT
    Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications

    Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a cordless
    telephony standard maintained by ETSI. It originated in Europe, where it
    is the common standard, replacing earlier standards, such as CT1 and
    CT2.[1] Since the DECT-2020 standard onwards, it also includes IoT communication.

    Beyond Europe, it has been adopted by Australia and most countries in
    Asia and South America. North American adoption was delayed by United
    States radio-frequency regulations. This forced development of a
    variation of DECT called DECT 6.0, using a slightly different frequency
    range, which makes these units incompatible with systems intended for
    use in other areas, even from the same manufacturer. DECT has almost
    completely replaced other standards in most countries where it is used,
    with the exception of North America.

    DECT was originally intended for fast roaming between networked base
    stations, and the first DECT product was Net3 wireless LAN.


    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 17:40:51 2025
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    DECT has absolutely nothing to do with the backend of the telefon-system
    in a house. It is simply a radio standard.
    Nevertheless, it is common for DECT phones to plug into analogue phone
    lines. Why is everything seen as an opportunity for an argument with you?

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 19:41:27 2025
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
    J�rg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability
    when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.


    I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries
    are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only
    Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and
    even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...

    And even if it's IP telephony, the user end, i.e. the 'last mile' can
    still be POTS, i.e. local copper wire and *analog* telephones. For
    example my neighbour (in The Netherlands) still has that and she doesn't
    want to change and she doesn't have to change.

    OTOH, AFAIK her base-station/handset combination is DECT, so the very
    last bit is partly digital, but not IP. Confusing, isn't it!? :-)

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Frank Slootweg on Sat Jan 4 20:01:07 2025
    Frank Slootweg wrote:

    the 'last mile' can
    still be POTS, i.e. local copper wire andanalog telephones. For
    example my neighbour (in The Netherlands) still has that and she doesn't
    want to change and she doesn't have to change.

    BT here are going to have an option for non-broadband users to continue
    with a "POTS-like" service for a few years beyond the supposed PSTN
    retirement date.

    There has been concern over phone lines stopping working during power
    cuts, has your PTT made provision for that?

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Chris on Sat Jan 4 20:11:51 2025
    Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
    [...]

    Text to speech is trivially easy to accomplish computationally. I had freeware PC programme in the 90s which did it very well.

    In the UK receiving txt messages via landline is (was? I've not had one for ages) commonplace: texts are delivered as an automated voice message.

    $DRIFT ON

    I don't know if it's common in other places, but in Australia, I also
    had it the other way around, speech-to-text: Someone left me 'voicemal',
    but that (human) voice was converted to text and that text was sent by
    SMS. Of course the text sometimes contained translation errors, but in
    general was quite understandable and I didn't need to call my voicemail
    (which wasn't enabled).

    $ DRIFT OFF

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 4 20:19:32 2025
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:
    [...]

    We were forced to rent telephones until they broke up Bell
    Telephone. Long distance calls only became affordable much
    later. To this day I wouldn't call Europe. I have no idea what
    it would cost.

    Well, you could install Skype on your computer (or smartphone ("Yeah, *right*!")) and call European landlines for a few cents per minute (if
    that 'much') and mobile numbers for a bit more.

    And, as Carlos mentioned, you can tell beforehand whether a number is
    a landline number or a mobile number.

    If you can give me an example target country, I can lookup the rates
    for you (or you could do it yourself).

    BTW, Skype is owned by Microsoft, the company we all, and you
    especially, love so much.

    [...]

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 4 20:24:03 2025
    J�rg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 04.01.25 15:01, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    what Andy described does not exist in the US.
    We have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell.
    And we now have cellphones

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    DECT has absolutely nothing to do with the backend of the telefon-system
    in a house. It is simply a radio standard.

    Exactly! Like Bluetooth has nothing to do with wireless headphones!
    ... Oops! Whats' wrong with this picture!?

    [Another false absolute deleted.]

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Jan 4 20:43:00 2025
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
    Frank Slootweg wrote:

    the 'last mile' can
    still be POTS, i.e. local copper wire andanalog telephones. For
    example my neighbour (in The Netherlands) still has that and she doesn't want to change and she doesn't have to change.

    BT here are going to have an option for non-broadband users to continue
    with a "POTS-like" service for a few years beyond the supposed PSTN retirement date.

    Our relatives in Australia had a complete - quite bulky - NBN
    (National Broadband Network) fibre broadband setup, complete with
    battery backup power, just for their landline. Never mind that the phone
    was DECT, so it would be dead anyway if the power failed. (Now they've
    moved and are mobile phone only.)

    There has been concern over phone lines stopping working during power
    cuts, has your PTT made provision for that?

    "power cuts"!? What are those!? Just kidding. Our grid has been very,
    very reliable, but now with the energy transition that has/will become
    worse, because there's too much power (both supply and demand), but too
    little grid.

    But to answer your question, I have no idea how that will be
    addressed. Currently probably one of the two (mobile/landline) will be
    up when the other is down, but in severe cases, both might be down.

    In our case, during a power cut, we also don't have water, because the
    pump which has to pump the water up in our appartment building runs on
    power and has no battery backup.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Chris on Sat Jan 4 15:47:05 2025
    On 1/4/2025 1:32 PM, Chris wrote:

    About 1/3 of the US still doesn't even have cell
    access.

    Do you mean geographically or by population? I suspect the former.

    Geographically, yes. There are large areas with sparse population
    and the telcos are not required to reach them.

    I'm not sure, but I think Micky is in the US. Is so then
    he cannot receive texts over his landline He can only
    receive audio.

    As I (and others) have pointed out the system mentioned is an audio call,
    not text. He (and you) could receive txt messages via your landlines *if* your telcos implemented something similar.


    Yes, but as far as I know there's no such option. Though
    it could be handy for situations where companies insist on
    a 2FA code. Many are happy to send it via email, but at
    one point I was considering opening an investment account
    and I couldn't sign up without a cellphone. They won't send
    codes via audio. I suspect that they just want the cellphone
    number and to get people using apps, so that they can track
    their customers and perhaps sell personal data.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Frank Slootweg on Sat Jan 4 22:56:46 2025
    On 2025-01-04 20:41, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability >>>> when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist
    anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.


    I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries
    are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only
    Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and
    even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...

    And even if it's IP telephony, the user end, i.e. the 'last mile' can still be POTS, i.e. local copper wire and *analog* telephones. For
    example my neighbour (in The Netherlands) still has that and she doesn't
    want to change and she doesn't have to change.

    Depends on the country. Here, those people that did not want to change,
    have been forced to change, or service would be simply stopped. On
    Telefónica, which I think it is still the major provider, it is fibre or
    radio for the landline. Copper, no way.

    Same thing for those providers that simply rented the service from
    Telefónica.


    OTOH, AFAIK her base-station/handset combination is DECT, so the very
    last bit is partly digital, but not IP. Confusing, isn't it!? :-)


    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 23:02:08 2025
    On 2025-01-04 17:38, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 9:01 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Newyana2 wrote:

    what Andy described does not exist in the US.
    We have basic telephone lines, first installed by Al Bell.
    And we now have cellphones

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    Since the introduction of VoIP, the DECT base may connect to an
    analogue adapter, or the adapter may be built-in to the ISP router, or
    the base may connect to your router via ethernet.


      The more we talk about this, the more it seems that DECT
    merely refers to having a wired base station with wireless
    extensions. That's common in the US.

    Yes, but the US use typically a different non standard method, each
    brand its own. Some might actually use DECT.



    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Chris on Sun Jan 5 03:54:58 2025
    On 2025-01-05 01:14, Chris wrote:
    Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
    Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

    In the UK receiving txt messages via landline is (was? I've not had one for >>> ages) commonplace: texts are delivered as an automated voice message.

    Yes, still true, it depends on the way the SMS gets sent to you
    though. We have DECT phones on a landline which isn't yet VOIP.
    The DECT handsets can receive and display SMS but, as I said,
    depending on the sender and intermediate systems, we sometimes get an
    actual text and other times a computer generated voice reading the
    message.

    Thanks for confirming. I suspect with the move to VOIP receiving texts will be transparent in what used to be landlines.

    Depends. In Spain the change to VoIP is hidden. The telco pretends it is
    still POTS, and charges for all the POTS services. For example, callid
    has a price per month. The price structure is that of POTS. And they
    keep a secret how to configure a true VoIP phone (connected with
    ethernet or wifi, not copper pair), and do not offer the new services
    that VoIP allow.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Chris on Sun Jan 5 03:50:45 2025
    On 2025-01-05 01:39, Chris wrote:
    Frank Slootweg <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:

    ...

    And, as Carlos mentioned, you can tell beforehand whether a number is
    a landline number or a mobile number.

    You need to know the rules, however, as each country is different. In
    France, for example, mobiles start 06/07 and landlines start 01/02/03/04/05 depending on the region.

    There are websites that say.


    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sun Jan 5 10:28:03 2025
    On 04.01.25 18:40, Andy Burns wrote:
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Until recently DECT phones plug into basic phone lines.

    DECT has absolutely nothing to do with the backend of the telefon-system
    in a house. It is simply a radio standard.
    Nevertheless, it is common for DECT phones to plug into analogue phone
    lines.

    Exactly so. The DECT-Standard is much older than IP-telephony. It is
    just a radio standard. The handsets DECT-communicate with the base which
    itself can be part of an analogue or a digital system.



    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jan 5 09:12:52 2025
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 1:32 PM, Chris wrote:

    About 1/3 of the US still doesn't even have cell
    access.

    Do you mean geographically or by population? I suspect the former.

    Geographically, yes. There are large areas with sparse population
    and the telcos are not required to reach them.

    I'm not sure, but I think Micky is in the US. Is so then
    he cannot receive texts over his landline He can only
    receive audio.

    As I (and others) have pointed out the system mentioned is an audio call, not text. He (and you) could receive txt messages via your landlines *if* your telcos implemented something similar.


    Yes, but as far as I know there's no such option. Though
    it could be handy for situations where companies insist on
    a 2FA code. Many are happy to send it via email, but at
    one point I was considering opening an investment account
    and I couldn't sign up without a cellphone. They won't send
    codes via audio. I suspect that they just want the cellphone
    number and to get people using apps, so that they can track
    their customers and perhaps sell personal data.

    That's what I do in the UK. I have an 07xxx number (i.e. a number
    that looks like a mobile number in the UK) which is actually
    a VOIP number and I have the VOIP provider route SMS messages to my
    E-Mail. So 2FA authorisation numbers arrive in my E-Mail and, since I
    use my computer rather than my phone for most things, that's very
    handy. Simply copy/paste to where It needs to go.

    --
    Chris Green
    ·

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 5 10:31:21 2025
    On 04.01.25 21:47, Newyana2 wrote:
    Yes, but as far as I know there's no such option. Though
    it could be handy for situations where companies insist on
    a 2FA code. Many are happy to send it via email, but at
    one point I was considering opening an investment account
    and I couldn't sign up without a cellphone. They won't send
    codes via audio. I suspect that they just want the cellphone
    number and to get people using apps, so that they can track
    their customers and perhaps sell personal data.

    My goodness! Again one of your conspiracy theories!


    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sun Jan 5 11:00:48 2025
    Carlos E.R. <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 20:41, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    [...]

    And even if it's IP telephony, the user end, i.e. the 'last mile' can still be POTS, i.e. local copper wire and *analog* telephones. For
    example my neighbour (in The Netherlands) still has that and she doesn't want to change and she doesn't have to change.

    Depends on the country. Here, those people that did not want to change,
    have been forced to change, or service would be simply stopped. On Telef�nica, which I think it is still the major provider, it is fibre or radio for the landline. Copper, no way.

    As I mentioned in another response, in Australia my relatives were
    indeed forced to a fibre NBN (broadband) setup with battery backup
    just for their landline.

    AFAIK, we're not yet at this stage in The Netherlands. Anyway, as I
    said, only the last part is copper and theoretically it could stay that
    way. I.e. like my HFC (Hybrid Fiber Coaxial) Internet/TV connection:
    Nearly all of it is fiber, but the last part is coaxial cable.

    [...]

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Chris on Sun Jan 5 13:00:58 2025
    Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
    Frank Slootweg <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:
    [...]

    We were forced to rent telephones until they broke up Bell
    Telephone. Long distance calls only became affordable much
    later. To this day I wouldn't call Europe. I have no idea what
    it would cost.

    Well, you could install Skype on your computer (or smartphone ("Yeah, *right*!")) and call European landlines for a few cents per minute (if
    that 'much') and mobile numbers for a bit more.

    Or simply use whatsapp. Large swathes of the European population use
    whatsapp and calls only require data; i.e. free using home wifi.

    Yes, but that applies to normal people in non third-world countries.
    That doesn't apply here! :-) Expecting the caller to accept to use Skype
    is already a big ask and probably a too big one.

    But yes, we use WhatsApp with our relatives in Australia, all the
    time.

    [...]

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jan 5 17:08:43 2025
    Newyana2 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 10:22 AM, Theo wrote:

    I think you might be using DECT without realising it. eg from a search on Amazon.com for 'cordless phone', #4 is an AT&T branded DECT base and handset:

    https://www.amazon.com/AT-BL102-2-2-Handset-Answering-Unsurpassed/dp/B086QB7WZ1

    and similar are at #6, #9, #11, #12. Most of the others are Panasonic or V-Tech, many of which have DECT in the title too.

    What model of cordless landline phone do you have?


    Panasonic. But note that the phone in the picture has an
    antenna. Mine is wired directly to the phone line, which
    goes to the VOIP device but used to go to a modem and
    before that wen't to public telephone lines. The extensions
    are wireless, but not the base station/answering machine.

    I've never seen a fully wireless landline. But maybe it's not
    really different. Using radio waves to get to the phone line is
    not fundamentally changing the technology. The phone in the
    picture has the same basic display and functions. The only
    difference seems to be that it doesn't need to be direct-wired.

    DECT handsets are cordless, as the name suggests. They talk via radio to
    the base station, hence the antenna. The base is corded, either to the
    classic copper phone line or to a VOIP converter box (maybe in the ISP's router).

    It's also possible to get bases which do VOIP directly, ie plug into an ethernet network - they're doing DECT between the handset and the base and converting it directly to VOIP rather than going via a copper phone line.
    Some routers also include this DECT-VOIP gateway, ie you pair your DECT
    handset with the router and then the outbound phone call is all VOIP.

    DECT range can be up to 400m from a single base, so is useful for people
    with a large property without needing to install boosters everywhere.

    If DECT eventually goes to the landline
    then it would seem that the lack of landline texting in the
    US may be more due to simple lack of support rather than
    technical issues. Not that I mind. I have no interest in
    receiving 100 characters of misspelled trivia, scrolling
    across my tiny phone screen like news headlines. As it
    stands, I'm glad that people can't text me.

    My Gigaset handset with VOIP base will actually scroll the news headlines
    and weather on its tiny screen, fetched from some Gigaset server. It's not
    the most useful feature :-)

    Landline SMS can be useful when you don't have mobile signal locally but
    need to receive verification SMS from various companies. Although the
    takeup of wifi calling on mobiles has made that less relevant.

    Theo

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Theo on Sun Jan 5 18:54:46 2025
    Theo <[email protected]> wrote:
    [...]

    DECT handsets are cordless, as the name suggests. They talk via radio to
    the base station, hence the antenna. The base is corded, either to the classic copper phone line or to a VOIP converter box (maybe in the ISP's router).

    Just a minor, but important, comment: (Some/most/all?) DECT handsets
    and base stations use *internal* antennas. So if you don't see an
    antenna, that doesn't mean it can't be a DECT device, but also not that
    it is a DECT device, because it *could* - but is not likely to - use
    other cordless technology.

    [...]

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Sun Jan 5 15:32:50 2025
    On 1/5/2025 3:25 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
    I've never been able to receive text messages on my Ooma VOIP number,
    but I thought it might be interesting to try to send one.� My question:
    How does one do that?� Email to the phone number?� Nope.� "Messages"
    tried but failed.

    Anything?



    You can. These should be up to date:

    AT&T: [email protected]
    Qwest: [email protected]
    T-Mobile: [email protected]
    Verizon: [email protected]
    Sprint: [email protected] or [email protected]
    Virgin Mobile: [email protected]
    Nextel: [email protected]
    Alltel: [email protected]
    Metro PCS: [email protected]
    Powertel: [email protected]
    Boost Mobile: [email protected]
    Suncom: [email protected]
    Tracfone: [email protected]
    U.S. Cellular: [email protected]

    You just send an email to their phone number. The trick is
    that you need to know their provider. The other catch is that
    they'll have to send an email to respond to you. Confusing.
    Probably most people wouldn't know how to handle it.

    So it's like [email protected] Hopefully the recipient
    knows it's a joke and knows that you can't receive a text
    in return. I don't know how they see the sender identified.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Chris on Sun Jan 5 22:56:13 2025
    Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jörg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 04.01.25 13:55, Andy Burns wrote:
    Jörg Lorenz wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability >>>> when on a PSTN/POTS line.

    In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist >>> anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland.
    I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries
    are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only
    Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and
    even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...

    Nonsense. Switzerland ended POTS/PSTN 2017.

    Scandinavia and Switzerland are at least 5 year rather 10 ahead of
    Germany which is massively underdeveloped compared to Switzerland and Scandinavia. Worse so in mobile telecommunication.


    The UK only *started* phasing out POTS at the end of 2023...

    2020, although it was only for new connections initially - ie you could
    order VDSL broadband without a phone line, and got a VOIP service instead. Forced replacement of POTS with VOIP only started to roll out in 2021.

    ( https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/tag/voip for the timeline)

    Theo

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Sun Jan 5 22:35:59 2025
    The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/5/25 12:32 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 1/5/2025 3:25 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
    I've never been able to receive text messages on my Ooma VOIP number,
    but I thought it might be interesting to try to send one.  My question: >> How does one do that?  Email to the phone number?  Nope.  "Messages"
    tried but failed.

    Anything?

    Sorry, I wasn't clear. I wanted to try sending a text message from my
    cell TO my Ooma VOIP number. I'll try emailing ###@ooma.com and see
    what happens.

    Can't you just use your cell to SMS your Ooma number +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx like
    any other cellphone number?

    You can. These should be up to date:

    Thanks, this is useful information.

    To send from your Ooma number, it's possible they also provide a web page or mobile app that allows sending SMS with their system. Although maybe you
    need to be on their business package, I don't know.

    Theo

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Chris on Mon Jan 6 08:23:56 2025
    Chris wrote:

    Carlos E.R. wrote:
    In Spain the change to VoIP is hidden. The telco pretends it is
    still POTS, and charges for all the POTS services.

    That's unfortunate. Fortunately here in the UK, with a bit of planning, we can port our landline number away from our usual provider to another VOIP provider. Most people won't, however.

    My current broadband contract is up this year and the POTS will be discontinued so will have to get this done.
    The spanish solution sounds rather like fibre to the cabinet, with voice
    cards fitted to the cabinet?

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Mon Jan 6 14:35:17 2025
    On 2025-01-06 09:23, Andy Burns wrote:
    Chris wrote:

    Carlos E.R. wrote:
    In Spain the change to VoIP is hidden. The telco pretends it is
    still POTS, and charges for all the POTS services.

    That's unfortunate. Fortunately here in the UK, with a bit of
    planning, we
    can port our landline number away from our usual provider to another VOIP
    provider. Most people won't, however.

    My current broadband contract is up this year and the POTS will be
    discontinued so will have to get this done.
    The spanish solution sounds rather like fibre to the cabinet, with voice cards fitted to the cabinet?

    It is fibre to the sitting room, to the router, or to a little box
    before it called "ONT". Either the ONT or the router have copper pair
    out, thus it is VoIP to the router, POTS out of it.


    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Mon Jan 6 13:43:38 2025
    Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    The spanish solution sounds rather like fibre to the cabinet, with
    voice cards fitted to the cabinet?

    It is fibre to the sitting room, to the router, or to a little box
    before it called "ONT". Either the ONT or the router have copper pair
    out, thus it is VoIP to the router, POTS out of it.
    Is your sitting room a mile long then :-) or was it someone else who
    mentioned "last mile"?

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Mon Jan 6 15:10:49 2025
    On 2025-01-06 14:43, Andy Burns wrote:
    Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    The spanish solution sounds rather like fibre to the cabinet, with
    voice cards fitted to the cabinet?

    It is fibre to the sitting room, to the router, or to a little box
    before it called "ONT". Either the ONT or the router have copper pair
    out, thus it is VoIP to the router, POTS out of it.
    Is your sitting room a mile long then :-) or was it someone else who mentioned "last mile"?

    Somebody else.

    Here Telefónica delivers fibre to to the sitting room router. If that is
    not feasible, it is radio.

    However, Vodafone does not, they do fibre to the block, then coax to the
    home (two coax, I think, one for internet and tv, another for phone.
    Unsure). They may use other technologies too.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Mon Jan 6 10:55:36 2025
    On 1/4/2025 9:54 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Depends. In Spain the change to VoIP is hidden. The telco pretends it is still POTS, and charges for all the POTS services. For example, callid
    has a price per month. The price structure is that of POTS. And they
    keep a secret how to configure a true VoIP phone (connected with
    ethernet or wifi, not copper pair), and do not offer the new services
    that VoIP allow.


    I'm struck by how differently it works in different countries.
    In the US I had to give up real landline because they were
    charging a very high price. They didn't want to maintain the
    wires anymore. So I got a modem and account through my
    ISP. They charged $30+/month, trying to double or triple it
    occasionally, hoping that I wouldn't notice. So it was basically
    VOIP but it was sold as a different service. I now have Vonage.
    $16/month. There's a small device to make it work over
    ethernet.

    So my ISP could have given me the VOIP for a tiny fee, because
    it really was VOIP in the first place. But they pretended that they
    were giving me a separate phone line. And I fell for it! It took some
    courage to just dump their phone and get straight VOIP.

    The woman I live with still has a phone line through the ISP,
    but it might cost more if she dumped it! The prices mean nothing.
    Their official prices are very high, then they claim that whatever
    we pay is a special deal. They could charge us more for Internet
    than for Internet and phone if they want to. And that often happens.
    Companies want all the business in the houses they serve.

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Mon Jan 6 16:22:17 2025
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
    Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    The spanish solution sounds rather like fibre to the cabinet, with
    voice cards fitted to the cabinet?

    It is fibre to the sitting room, to the router, or to a little box
    before it called "ONT". Either the ONT or the router have copper pair
    out, thus it is VoIP to the router, POTS out of it.

    Is your sitting room a mile long then :-) or was it someone else who mentioned "last mile"?

    The "last mile" was me, but in a slightly different context, i.e. the VOIP-to-POTS was not in the sitting room, but somewhere upto a 'mile'
    away.

    OTOH, I also mentioned an Aussie setup similar to what Carlos
    described, so being in Oz, their sitting room might well be a mile long.
    :-)

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Apr 2 18:24:31 2025
    In comp.mobile.android, on 3 Jan 2025 18:23:22 GMT, Frank Slootweg <[email protected]d> wrote:

    micky <[email protected]> wrote:
    In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 13:38:34 +0000, Andy Burns
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some
    indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it >> >> can't receive texts?

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to
    text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?

    I don't know. I don't think so. For several years I have beeen the
    contact person for the people who plow (plough?) our streets when it
    snows. I saw the contract yesterday and it has my landline first, and
    my cell number. I'm still living in the 1950's and I envisioned them
    calling me on the phone, but now I see they send texts. I got one on
    the cell a year ago and another yesterday. I've never gotten any
    message from them on my landline, so I wonder if they tried and realized
    it wasn't accepting texts and they switched to the other number.

    Sigh! As you have a landline, why don't *you* try/test it, instead of
    asking here for an impossible to give answer (because it depends on your
    and their telco and setups).

    It never occurred to me that one could get texts on a landline until
    someone here, I think, suggested it. And I couldn't find any
    information on how to do it.

    If it works for you, it will also work for them, because in that test
    your landline telco and their setup is the deciding factor.

    If it does not work for you,

    If what works for me?

    it doesn't mean it doesn't work for them,
    so it's undecided and the only things you can do is ask them to test it
    or remove your landline number from their contact list. In most cases,
    the 'customer', i.e. you, should be able to do that themselves, but that >depends on how customer-friendly their IT is.

    [...]

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Apr 3 09:49:59 2025
    micky <[email protected]> wrote:
    In comp.mobile.android, on 3 Jan 2025 18:23:22 GMT, Frank Slootweg <[email protected]d> wrote:

    micky <[email protected]> wrote:
    In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 13:38:34 +0000, Andy Burns
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some >> >> indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it >> >> can't receive texts?

    Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to >> >text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery
    mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?

    I don't know. I don't think so. For several years I have beeen the
    contact person for the people who plow (plough?) our streets when it
    snows. I saw the contract yesterday and it has my landline first, and
    my cell number. I'm still living in the 1950's and I envisioned them
    calling me on the phone, but now I see they send texts. I got one on
    the cell a year ago and another yesterday. I've never gotten any
    message from them on my landline, so I wonder if they tried and realized >> it wasn't accepting texts and they switched to the other number.

    Sigh! As you have a landline, why don't *you* try/test it, instead of
    asking here for an impossible to give answer (because it depends on your >and their telco and setups).

    It never occurred to me that one could get texts on a landline until
    someone here, I think, suggested it. And I couldn't find any
    information on how to do it.

    Sigh! Use your mobile phone and (try to) send a 'text' (SMS message)
    to your own landline number.

    You have everything needed for such a test, so you can test it
    yourself instead asking others:

    <repeat>
    Sigh! As you have a landline, why don't *you* try/test it, instead of
    asking here for an impossible to give answer (because it depends on your >and their telco and setups).
    </repeat>

    If it works for you, it will also work for them, because in that test
    your landline telco and their setup is the deciding factor.

    If it does not work for you,

    If what works for me?

    Your 'text'/SMS test from your mobile phone to your landline.

    it doesn't mean it doesn't work for them,
    so it's undecided and the only things you can do is ask them to test it
    or remove your landline number from their contact list. In most cases,
    the 'customer', i.e. you, should be able to do that themselves, but that >depends on how customer-friendly their IT is.

    [...]

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