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Originally posted by Ian
I bet these companies are laughing all the way to the bank. Text message probably costs one hundredth of the price of a voice call but the charge to the user is far higher, plus you get to make a phone call to listen to it, plus you can buy hardware to do it more often. Sheesh.

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money maker eh!! ;)

I bet these companies are laughing all the way to the bank. Text message probably costs one hundredth of the price of a voice call but the charge to the user is far higher, plus you get to make a phone call to listen to it, plus you can buy hardware to do it more often. Sheesh.

BT has launched a range of phones that will allow people to send a receive text messages on their fixed telephone lines. The service will send texts to and from mobile phones and between fixed line phones. For those without SMS enabled handsets, BT will convert the text to speech.

The phones are on the market now, and start at £29.99. ®

society is a fuck up if people rather text than speak.

i hate texting, its a bag of shit.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/05/bt_land_text/

[Edited on 11-08-2004 by kitty_kitty]

apperently orange dont, just spoke to a dosey person from there.

orange & voda support it

think o2 do too

not sure about tmobile

right ive just txt my land line now

it will only work if ur phone is compatible , as i dont think a computerised voice will read slang some how:| , some landline phones ya can send and recieve txts. but it reading a txt to you is bullshit:lol:



[Edited on 120102 by Ben]

*-should do


may take a few mins to come *th*ru

ow im on o2 and it dont work yet

yes

phone will ring as normal you pick it up & it will say

this is the BT SMS to Voice messaging Service
number (your mobile) has sent following message

yaa yaaa boooo

or something like that

will the land line let u no wen a message is recieved

so if i txt my house phone now will shut the fcuk up mother it will read it out :|

yes it works

just write a text in the usual way but send it to your house phone instead (including area code)

Whats a non mobile? a landline?

[Edited on 11-08-2004 by Evisu]

i had a dream about this and was guna invent it : ( looks like i hav been beaten to it :(

:boggle:

heard on the radio that apparently you can now text non mobiles. apparently it actually reads the message out. anyone heard bout this or know how to do it?