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[Taxi_Driver]

So how does this work then?

Got home tonight and 3 messages on my answer machine....

3rd message was and this was from my answer m/c.....not bt messaging or anything like that

'you have a text message waiting......to delete it press 'blah' ....to reply press 'blah' to hear it wait.....then the message was spoken......i can understand if i had bt answer messaging or similar....ie the exchange answers the call....but how come on my answer m/c thats sits in my house?

It is a digital answering m/c.....but that has got me confused....howd it do that  :-/

[RossPhim]

Someone has sent you a text message to your landline.
I get these all the time at work.
A real pain in the backside!

Or have I missed something?  

[MikeDundee]

So how does this work then?

Got home tonight and 3 messages on my answer machine....

3rd message was and this was from my answer m/c.....not bt messaging or anything like that

'you have a text message waiting......to delete it press 'blah' ....to reply press 'blah' to hear it wait.....then the message was spoken......i can understand if i had bt answer messaging or similar....ie the exchange answers the call....but how come on my answer m/c thats sits in my house?

It is a digital answering m/c.....but that has got me confused....howd it do that  :-/

The machines takin over?

[ClarCE]

i think you can text messages to landline numbers now and it reads them out.

Its possible that bt phoned to read the text, your machine answered and recorded it as no buttons were pressed it just 'waited' ... if that makes sense..  try listening again and pressing some buttons on the phone, if it does nothing then its recorded it rather that actually playing it live..

[hotel21]

I got one a few weeks ago.  Its some system where a person can send a text from their mobile to your house phone.  The ansaphone will record the spoken computer generated text from the sms so you can hear it.  I can't remember if it was on the machine or I had to call a number to hear?

HtH

 B

[TheBoy]

Yup, a text to a landline results in Tom Baker speaking the message to you.

For a laugh, when the service was launched, we tried to see how many swear words Tom Bake could get in a sentence...

[Taxi_Driver]

Ahhh rite so it just recorded the call..... the message/text was from BT asking if they had fixed the fault on my line.....makes me wonder tho.....if they hadnt i wouldnt have got the messsage...

[Jimbob]

A lot of newer dect phones can display the messages, and send them too