Re: texst to a landline

On 2025-01-04 13:55, Andy Burns wrote:

Jörg Lorenz wrote:
 

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

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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.
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Cheers, Carlos.