Re: texst to a landline

On 2025-01-04 20:41, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Jörg Lorenz wrote:
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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 ...

    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!? :-)

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Cheers, Carlos.