Re: texst to a landline

Newyana2 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.

    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?