[PLUG-TALK] SMS alternatives for landlines?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Most carriers have email-to-text gateways:

AT&T: [number]@txt.att.net
Sprint: [number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com or [number]@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile: [number]@tmomail.net
Verizon: [number]@vtext.com
Boost Mobile: [number]@myboostmobile.com
Cricket: [number]@sms.mycricket.com
Metro PCS: [number]@mymetropcs.com
Tracfone: [number]@mmst5.tracfone.com
U.S. Cellular: [number]@email.uscc.net
Virgin Mobile: [number]@vmobl.com

You need to know the recipient's carrier but you can email them a text this way.

Most phone's text messaging apps will automatically switch over to an email reply if instead of the user typing in your cell number they type in your email address

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG-talk <plug-talk-bounces at pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 12:26 PM
To: plug-talk at pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG-TALK] SMS alternatives for landlines?

As I mentioned in a prior (too long) posting, I do not use a "smart phone / dodopaddle" or sliders and gestures and swipes to receive and send SMS texts.  That "channel" is not accessible to me.

Are there services or Linux software or interface devices that work with ordinary landlines, and can exchange those texts as ASCII with a large computer screen, keyboard, and mouse ?

Extra points for an additional "SMS to spoken letters or words" alternative; I'm not vision impaired (yet), but friends are.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
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