Rogers Wireless service allows texting to landline phones.(Global Wireless)

RCR Wireless News, December, 2004

Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. launched its TXT 2 Landline service, which will allow customers to send text messages to landline phones anywhere in Canada and the United States. The messages are then converted to voice and can be delivered in English or French.

Rogers Wireless noted that when a TXT 2 Landline call is answered, an automated voice system delivers the message and provides the wireless phone number for the message sender. If the recipient has a caller identification service, the wireless phone number of the message sender will appear. The recipient is then able to replay the message, send a voice message reply to the original sender or terminate the call.

"Text messaging is a non-intrusive method of...

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