emma18
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Registered: 10th Mar 04
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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?
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Graham
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Lincoln.
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waynep
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Registered: 20th Apr 02
Location: london
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i had a dream about this and was guna invent it : ( looks like i hav been beaten to it 
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
Location: Rickmansworth
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Whats a non mobile? a landline?
[Edited on 11-08-2004 by Evisu]
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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yes it works
just write a text in the usual way but send it to your house phone instead (including area code)
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Graham
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Lincoln.
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so if i txt my house phone now will shut the fcuk up mother it will read it out 
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emma18
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will the land line let u no wen a message is recieved
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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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
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emma18
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Registered: 10th Mar 04
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ow im on o2 and it dont work yet
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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*-should do
may take a few mins to come *th*ru
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Ben
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Registered: 12th Jan 03
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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
[Edited on 120102 by Ben]
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Graham
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right ive just txt my land line now
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PaulW
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orange & voda support it
think o2 do too
not sure about tmobile
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kitty_kitty
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Registered: 14th Dec 03
Location: Shawbury, Shropshire
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apperently orange dont, just spoke to a dosey person from there.
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kitty_kitty
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Location: Shawbury, Shropshire
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/05/bt_land_text/
[Edited on 11-08-2004 by kitty_kitty]
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R Lee
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Registered: 15th Aug 03
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society is a fuck up if people rather text than speak.
i hate texting, its a bag of shit.
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dave17
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Location: Greater London
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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. ®
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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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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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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money maker eh!! 
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BlueCorsa
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quote:
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.
When you send a text message to another network other than your own, the recipient network takes 3p as an interconnect charge. The actual cost of transmitting the message (and same network text messaging) is less than 0.1p. So at 10p or 12p per text message, the networks are making piles of cash.
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