How does that solve the problem? Landlines will still continue to exist and people will still mistakenly believe they can receive texts. It seems like a doable solution to have non-mobile numbers auto return a message that it cannot receive text messages. Where do the text messages to landlines go? Into a black hole? I assume there is a service that at some point realized that the number cannot receive a text message and sends it to dev/nul. Instead, why can't that service ping back?

>How does that solve the problem?

It directly solves your problem does it not? You now have a number that can receive texts... I don't understand your confusion.

I'm specifically asking you why do you have a landline? The "problem" is solved by not having one.

>to have non-mobile numbers auto return a message that it cannot receive text messages

I've seen these errors when I've mistakenly sent an sms to a landline. This already exists, maybe just for some carriers though.

I can have a landline if I want. There is no law that I have to get a mobile number.

I'm not talking about laws, I legitimately am just asking why you want to lol. Username checks out

Our children do not have cell phones and their baby sitters often don't have cell phones (at least the younger baby sitters). A landline allows those without cell phones to make calls out of the house.

>Why don't you get rid of the landline and give these people your cell phone number?

For me, because I live in a large, dense city, my apartment is in a place where other, larger building surround it. As such, I have poor cellular reception in my home.

As such, if I don't have a "landline" (actually a VOIP line), I would often be unreachable at home.

WiFi calling is the answer.

>WiFi calling is the answer.

And despite the fact that my provider claims to support such a thing, and my phone supports it, I am unable to to use WiFi calling.

Your use case is not mine.

Don't pretend to have all the answers to a situation of which you are ignorant. It's unhelpful and unpleasant.

Edit: My comment was also unhelpful. I was going to delete it, but instead I'm going to leave it up and qualify my remarks by saying that your suggestion is a good one, and despite the fact that it's inappropriate to the circumstance, thank you.

Actually had to use WiFi calling yesterday and it just didn't work on my main #. Only my app based phone # (Google Voice) worked! That was a really unpleasant discovery since I had no cell service.

Definitely affirms what you are saying -- it doesn't always work! Yesterday was the first time I ever had a problem.

No errors or warnings, the calls just never go through.