text message to a land line

[polly1]

is it possible to send a text message to a landline phone and how easy is it to do if at all poss.?!?

[dougielogan]

If it is a BT line I know it can be done, I don't know about other phone companies. Just use your mobile as usual and send a text message to your land line and try it. your phone rings and you get a voice message of the text.

[palfreyman18]

It usually plays a little tune before the text message is read out though., and the phone rings until you read the text, it's quite annoying!

[Hammer]

Yep, just text it as normal and then it gets read out by a robot at the other end. Quite amusing for rude messages after a few creme de menthes!!

[stevie21]

Well said Hammer - it seems that I'm not the only person who has done that. I intended to send the rude message to someone's mobile and accidentally sent it to my own landline.
I almost fell over laughing when a female Stephen Hawking started talking dirty to me.

[jedda]

I have a BT line and it doesn't work.

[ianess]

I've tried it and had no success if an answering machine cuts in. The message just gets lost before the "beep".
I'm not with BT, if that makes a difference I don't know.

[tomd]

One of my friends had a landline phone which actually recieves text messages to the handset, and you can send from them. It's a Panasonic but I'm not sure of the model.