MetaChat - What happens when I text message a cell phone that has the feature turned off?

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09 June 2006

What happens when I text message a cell phone that has the feature turned off? I.e. the subscriber has chosen not to buy SMS service from the cell phone company?

Does my message bounce? Get blackholed silently?

Alternatively, what happens when I text message a landline?

kThx!

post by: NucleophilicAttack at: 06:02 | 5 comments

blackholed silenty. Sorta like MMS messages do when you MMS someone who doesn't have MMS. (say that ten times fast!)

posted by dabitch 09 June | 06:23

in the uk, if you send a text message to a landline there's a service whereby a nice lady reads it out for you to the person on the other end. I'm not kidding either.

posted by altolinguistic 09 June | 09:19

Well, I can't send texts, but I can receive them. So at least I get 'em.

posted by dame 09 June | 10:31

Thanks guys! :-)

posted by NucleophilicAttack 09 June | 14:54

Yeah, I recieve text messages, at least from my cell phone company, but I can't send them...

posted by muddgirl 10 June | 13:02

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