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Can't text a landline

europadroid

europadroid

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Hi there

I am a T-mobile customer in the UK and have a Desire although the last part may be academic. If I put an o2 sim into my Desire and text my home landline, the text comes through. My wife is also on o2 and can text the landline. But whether I use my T-Mobile sim in the Desire, my old phone (Galaxy Europa) or my wifes phone - I cannot get a text to be received at home. I can send texts to mobile phones on all networks without a problem (in all the phones I have tried)

I know this is not a Desire specific question, but wondered if it is anything you have come across before? :)
 
Maybe some networks just deny it and that's just how it is?
Not much use of know but it's also got
 
Heres an IT support tip for you. Whatever the fault follows is the cause.

If no sims in the one phone can text landline, its the phone. The fault follows the phone, regardless of sim inserted.

If one sim in any phone cannot text land lines, its the sim. The fault follows the sim.

You ruled out the phone by using a sim card from O2 and you identified it as the account/sim/provider as the "fault" followed the sim card. All you can do is talk to t-mob.

Hope this helps. Would be interesting to see what the actual reason is, so please let us know.
 
I popped down to my local T-Mobile shop just now and although the people behind the counter didn't know anything, one of the customers in their shop did!

He said to search the BT forums for an answer as he said it was a known fault, and I found this

BT Text & T-Mobile - BTCare Community Forums

I guess this is my issue. It is really annoying, the only reason I am with T-Mobile is that I am a very low calls/text user, but I wanted a cheap data bolt-on, and T-mo do this for
 
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