SMS to landline calls - blackout period settings?

I want to avoid SMS-to-BT-landline calls waking me up in the middle of
the night.

SMS-to-mobile has no such problem - most people will turn their phones
off at night and get any new messages when they next switch on.

But there is no obvious way of avoiding middle-of-the-night SMS calls
sent to your landline (other than refusing all such calls, which would
be a shame).

Last night's 0040 call came from my Broadband-by-radio service,
joyously announcing the resumption of the Broadband service after an
outage. When service is resumed, they automatically SMS back to the
number used to alert them to the problem - and claim not to be able to
make exceptions for difficult people like me.

To be honest, I could have quite happily continued sleeping at 0040, and
waited until say 8am this morning to receive this message.

I can work around this specific instance (only ever reporting faults to
my ISP from a mobile, or moving to a different ISP), but it does seem to
be a more systematic problem.

Is there some hidden option to set a "blackout" period when one would
not welcome having SMS messages delivered by voice to one's landline?

If not, does anyone know of any email address within BT to which one
could make a product-enhancement suggestion with a reasonable
expectation that somebody would actually read it - and conceivably reply?

John Geddes
Derbyshire

There is supposed to be a option on 0845 602 1111 but i can't find it!

John Geddes wrote:

Sorry - wrongly posted - should have been to uk.telecom

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, John Geddes wrote:

> I want to avoid SMS-to-BT-landline calls waking me up in the middle
> of the night.

[What's this got to do with "broadband", please? I'm assuming it's
more in the nature of a uk.telecom question - crossposted and
followups proposed.]

My recently-bought cheap Panasonic DECT includes a rather nice
sleep facility, whereby the phone can be told not to ring on an
incoming call during certain periods of the day/night, unless the
caller id matches one of a short list of people one really wants to
hear from.

Presumably that would work just as well in relation to unwanted
SMS-to-landline calls.

(KX-TCD200E, although I'm sure this feature is by no means exclusive
to just the one model.)

Your other option would seem to be to get suitable kit for, and sign
up to, receiving SMS as text. As far as I've been able to understand
so far, residential subscribers can sign-up free of charge to
caller-id under the "BT Privacy at Home" option, and can then use the
caller-id feature to receive landline SMS messages at no extra charge,
once you'd got the appropriate kit. The above-mentioned DECT phone is
not SMS-capable, but there are plenty which are.

h t h

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:02:45 +0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , John
Geddes <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I want to avoid SMS-to-BT-landline calls waking me up in the middle of
>the night.
>
>But there is no obvious way of avoiding middle-of-the-night SMS calls
>sent to your landline (other than refusing all such calls, which would
>be a shame).

Buy a phone with a ringer silencer. I can't recall having bought one
in the last five years that you couldn't do that with. For example
pretty much any of BT's phones can do this.
--
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Sean wrote:
> There is supposed to be a option on 0845 602 1111 but i can't find it!

Dial 0800 587 5252

--
Adrian C

Sean wrote:
> There is supposed to be a option on 0845 602 1111 but i can't find it!
0800 587 5252 completely stops this (useless) service

--
Adrian C

Adrian C wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>
>> There is supposed to be a option on 0845 602 1111 but i can't find it!
>
> 0800 587 5252 completely stops this (useless) service

Many thanks for that !!! (and have a virtual pint on me)

I was woken up by this useless service at 02:30hrs one morning when a friend
accidentally sent an SMS to my home number rather than my mobile.

--
Mark
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Adrian C wrote:
>
> Sean wrote:
> > There is supposed to be a option on 0845 602 1111 but i can't find it!
> 0800 587 5252 completely stops this (useless) service

Thanks from me for this. Unfortunately with a name that begins with
'A', I sometimes get Voicetexts from friends/acquaintances with mobiles
that don't know how to use a keyguard or let their children loose on
their mobile phones and get unexpected SMSs...

Allan