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Originally Posted by snidely
Can you, or anyone, explain in simple language how this works? It appears you get a landline number which some how is tied to the SIM card.
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Hi,
we have such a system in germany too. The o2 "Genion" cards have a landline-number attached to their SIM-card as well as Vodafone "Home" and t-mobile "@-home".
So this is technically no problem.
You can receive calls on the landline or on the GSM-Number (receiving on the landline-number can be charged if you leave your "home" area - depends on your contract)- SMS are sent to the regular GSM-Number.
Technically you can send SMS to landline numbers too. In germany the network tries if the receiving phone is capable of reading SMS. Most modern phones can do so and also send SMS. If not you get a voicecall and the SMS gets read out by a computer voice.
But i think they will let you receive SMS on the mobile phone number as this would be much more easy to handle.
Chris.