February 28, 2005
Australia. Text message service for home phones
More than 10 million households across Australia will soon be able to send text messages from their home telephone units, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
"The telecoms company today launched the service which allows phone users to read and send text messages on their landlines using specially designed telephones in the same way they do with mobile phones."
Similar services offered in other countries:
-- BT brings texting to fixed-line phones with Text launch - British consumers can now send and receive text messages from their fixed-line home phones following the soft-launch of BT Text.
-- Telstra Launches Land-Line Talking Text - Telstra Mobile post-paid and pre-paid customers can now send Talking TextTM messages to most Telstra fixed home and business phones.
-- Texting from land line phones - France Télecom is offering it's land line phone subscribers the possibility to send text messages to subscribers of their mobile affiliate Orange.
-- Swisscom offers SMS on landline phones - Swisscom ISDN subscribers (these phones come with a screen), enable users to send SMS from a land line phone to a subscriber to any of the three mobile operators, but only Swisscom mobile users are able to reply to the SMS.
-- Texting gets voice of its own from BT - BT Group announced a service that will allow mobile users to send text messages to fixed-line telephones by converting them into a synthesised voice call.
-- Operators Reinventing Home Phones to Compete with Mobiles - European fixed-line operators are reinventing home phones to compete with the popularity of cell phones, by adding popular features such as SMS and picture messaging.
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