SMS via Landline

divine` · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:06

hhmmm....Phone just rang, 0845 number.

Pick it up, starts talking at me...

This is the BT SMS text delivery bla bla bla

Reads me a number that I didn't get time to write down and then it asks me to press 1 to listen etc.

Now, as soon as it asked me to press anything I just hung up, but was there any chance that was genuine and if so, how can I get back to it?

yer_averagejoe · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:12

yeah you can send texts to landlines, there is a number you can call to pick them up again, have a google. its not a simple number iirc.

Jotun · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:14

Does it not go on your voicemail, so you can call 1571 to play it again?

Faithless · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:18

just ring 1471, the number will be there if its the last that rang.

Nothing wrong with it. Quite a useful service IMO

Jotun · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:19

Faithless said:
just ring 1471, the number will be there if its the last that rang.

Nothing wrong with it. Quite a useful service IMO

IIRC when you get a text to your landline then dial 1471 the number it gives is your house phone.

divine` · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:19

It rang again and I listened to the number it was from properly and its a mates number so im happy its legit now

"andy" · 23 Dec 2006 at 21:21

its not good when you drunkely send hilarious insults to your mates house number instead of mobile and there parents hear them read out by a computer voice

decmatt · 23 Dec 2006 at 22:08

the number is 08451 211111 I think, I use that service quite often

Gaygle · 23 Dec 2006 at 22:23

when someone sends you a text to landlines it rings and then an automated voice says you have a text message waiting and iirc, you can listen to it that once, and then if you want to hear it after you have hung up, you have to pay.

Faithless · 23 Dec 2006 at 22:37

Jotun said:
IIRC when you get a text to your landline then dial 1471 the number it gives is your house phone.

Then you don't remember incorrectly

It gives you the 08 number that rang.