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Hi everyone!
I just discovered that in Sweden you can send SMS to regular (that is non-mobile) phones! The phone rings and an artificial voice reads your message. How cool is that?
Or is this standard in other parts of the world?
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Posted: 2004-01-05 18:45:13
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They ran a test with that about a year ago in the city where my sister lives. Worked pretty neat.
Nowadays my parents have a house-phone which understands 'text' messages as well. Just the network does not (yet) So maybe one day... they'll be fully SMS compatible? (wishful thinking)
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:04:18
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just another way of delivering. Tele2 (Sweden) have for a few years offered their iType (SMS terminal for the PSTN), making it possible to send SMS to mobile phones, or others with an iType. Several of Siemens DETC phones have support for SMS. Now Vodafone (Sweden) test this way of delivering SMS to PSTN customers, but it will not be delivered after 10pm weekdays and 11pm weekends and not before 7am weekdays and 9am weekends, so it has its limitations.
I can't really see the use of this, many people today have mobile phone, send them a sms then. If they only have an ordinary phone, call them
(PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network, the fixed phone network)
[ This Message was edited by: Cytech on 2004-01-05 18:24 ]
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:19:40
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I think it started in France (with France Telecom, the national operator) about one year ago...
And with some fixed phones, you receive the text as mentionned by Cytech.
[ This Message was edited by: ragazzo on 2004-01-05 18:49 ]
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:45:58
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This goes2show how far technology goes but that's all. Here,the new dect networks will have this feature no1 will use:-D
This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:50:30
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On a similar note, Orange UK offers a 'listen to your email' service. Not sure if it's done electronically or whether some poor blighter has to sit there all day reading out people's emails but either way, I bet they'll introduce a SMS equivalent soon, if they haven't already.
Costs 20 uk pence per minute, by the way!!
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:51:10
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We ( belgium ) have allready that service for some time now
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:57:53
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I've been able to listen to my emails for a couple of years, but I've never used it except to show people (and no, it's not a real person reading
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Wouldn't it be cool if the phone in your home could receive sms and route them to your home control system. That way you could control household appliances or set the timer on your hard-drive VCR.
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Posted: 2004-01-05 22:32:10
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