Psst! I heard that Local Telephone Company has figured out an easy way to offer SMS reception on any of their land-line numbers using existing customer hardware. The catch is that you have got to have Caller ID, but who uses SMS and doesn't have Caller ID these days.

Future follows: Cell user transmits SMS, entering the land-line destination number as the message recipient. Cell provider routes the message to Local Telephone Company . Local Telco strips and repackages the message in order to ring the destination land-line with (here's the awesome part!) the SMS message and number of sender wrapped inside of the Caller ID headers. Your phone line at home lets out a single ring to notify you of the new message, which is only as far away as your "Caller ID Review" button.

How cool is that? I am so proud of myself.  ¶ Permalink 8/09/2003 08:20:00 PM