Deutsche Telekom’s new service enables fixed-line telephone subscribers to send text messages from their phones using SMS, already widely used on mobile phones.
Deutsche Telekom’s fixed line SMS service enables subscribers to its T-D1 mobile network to send text messages of up to 160 characters to fixed-line customers, and allows customers with compatible residential phones to send SMS from fixed-line instruments to Deutsche Telekom mobile subscribers or other SMS enabled landline customers. At a later stage, the landline text messages will be able to go to competing companies’ mobile networks, according to Deutsche Telekom.
Messages to landline customers without an SMS-enabled phone will be read over the phone by a synthesized voice. Subscribers to Deutsche Telekom’s voice mailbox will receive them as ordinary voicemail messages.
