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  • Probably OT: Viewing SMS text on VoIP phone

    From Graham J@nobody@nowhere.co.uk to uk.telecom.mobile on Tue Aug 4 09:56:44 2026
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    I have a Gigaset N510IP with a S700H PRO Handset registered with a VoIP provider.

    If somebody sends me a text message, the handset rings and a synthetic
    voice reads the message.

    Where is this synthetic voice generated, please? Is it within the VoIP provider, or within the Openreach system which delivered the text
    message to the VoIP provider, or within the mobile system where the text
    was created?

    Can my number be configured so that the text message is rejected, and
    the sender advised that "this number does not receive texts"? If so,
    should my VoIP provider be able to do this?

    Any ideas, please?
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to uk.telecom.mobile on Tue Aug 4 10:23:16 2026
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    Graham J wrote:

    I have a Gigaset N510IP with a S700H PRO Handset registered with a VoIP provider.

    If somebody sends me a text message, the handset rings and a synthetic
    voice reads the message.

    Where is this synthetic voice generated, please?

    BT/OR I think.

    Is it within the VoIP
    provider, or within the Openreach system which delivered the text
    message to the VoIP provider, or within the mobile system where the text
    was created?

    Can my number be configured so that the text message is rejected, and
    the sender advised that "this number does not receive texts"?

    Maybe 0800 587 5252 option 5?

    If so, should my VoIP provider be able to do this?

    Any ideas, please?

    i think the PSTN/SMS connection is a mess since VoIP cutover started,
    voipfone don't seem able to control/configure anything SMS related, I
    think there is no outbound SMS any more, my gigaset won't register with
    the SMSC, maybe it all goes away in January? you can/should be able to control what hours the robovoice calls you?

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  • From Graham J@nobody@nowhere.co.uk to uk.telecom.mobile on Tue Aug 4 12:42:22 2026
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    Andy Burns wrote:

    [snip]

    you can/should be able to
    control what hours the robovoice calls you?

    Yhis only occurs when somebody using a mobile sends a text message to my "landline" number which is routed to my Voipfone service. So the only
    person controlling when this happens is the user of the mobile who
    originates the text.

    The robovoice calls appear to come from an 0800 number.
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  • From Theo@theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk to uk.telecom.mobile on Tue Aug 4 14:39:43 2026
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    Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
    Andy Burns wrote:

    [snip]

    you can/should be able to
    control what hours the robovoice calls you?

    Yhis only occurs when somebody using a mobile sends a text message to my "landline" number which is routed to my Voipfone service. So the only person controlling when this happens is the user of the mobile who originates the text.

    The robovoice calls appear to come from an 0800 number.

    The 0800 number is run by BT/OR and if you call it there should be a menu to configure what hours the robovoice is allowed to ring the number you're
    calling from. Outside those hours the system will hold the message(s) and
    call you at the start of your next day's window.

    I was wondering whether there is a difference between SMS to numbers that
    are in a number range owned by BT/OR (ie originally attached to a landline
    and their system still sits in the 'forwarding' path, to hand over calls to
    the network that now operates the number) and numbers that were never associated with BT/OR. I sent an SMS to a landline number that was formerly owned by BT and now at A&A, and to another owned by A&A, both on A&A's VOIP system. I was expecting a call, voicemail or an email, but both disappeared without trace. I also have a mobile number with A&A and that does deliver
    SMS to email correctly.

    Theo
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