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Old 22-05-2004, 14:39   #1
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Do BT SMS dect phones work on NTL lines

these type of phones:

http://www.shop.bt.com/invt/006508

anyone got one in an NTL caller id enabled area

does the SM feature? work?

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Re: Do BT SMS dect phones work on NTL lines

The blurb at another site with a DECT/SMS say that:

*** SMS Messaging is a subscription service
That's not something many of them tell you when they sell you a DECT/SMS phone!

So do NTL offer a subscription - or can you subscribe elsewhere - or cheat it by entering the same SMS centre number as your mobile uses.

http://www.filesaveas.com/sms.html
If it let you get through to these, the rate would be appaling - 07xx can be pretty stinking!
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Re: Do BT SMS dect phones work on NTL lines

I believe this phone also doe's the sms thing but check out the price compared to the BT one's


http://www.amstrad.co.uk/default.shtml
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Re: Do BT SMS dect phones work on NTL lines

anyone know?
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Re: Do BT SMS dect phones work on NTL lines

Have you considered posting to uk.telecom? It's a newsgroup, stock full of telecom types who know this sort of thing backwards. If you have Outlook Express installed as your default newsreader, click the link below. It should start OE and go straight to the group - then just create a post of your question and await a reply. You will need to go back to the group and read it, as people on the whole will not reply personally to you.

news://text.ntlworld.com/uk.telecom
or
news://news.ntlworld.com/uk.telecom

Or if that doesn't work, then you might like to try google.groups here:
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_faq.html or more specifically:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...oup=uk.telecom

FWIW though, this bit may be of no use to you. I have a Panasonic KX TCD515ES Digital Cordless TAM. The SMS service is provided by a third party - who require a BT line. The people on the Panasonic Help Line I called a couple of months ago. Sugested the reason why these services wouldn't work was down to two different standards being employed by BT and some parts of NTL, they said "some parts" owing to parts of NTL being compatiable with BT. There is usually a setting on the phone somewhere, which you can alter in order to obtain compatibility with the network you are on. Though I gave up as, I have SMS on my mobile. So it wasn't that important to me. Like I said though, the best place for this type of question would be uk.telecom if no one comes up with a reply here.

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