Re: texst to a landline

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.