Funny Way To Find Out About A Text To Landline Fee

by Alan Yu
5/11/2015
2 Comments

Today I was exchanging numbers with a person and as usual one person would call or text the other where the caller ID would automatically give you the other person’s number. I made a mistake in entering the number at first and so the text message of just “test” got sent to who knows where.

I then noticed after I got this message saying “Thank you for using WIND TXT2Landline. $0.20/msg charge. TXT HELP for info. Details @ windmobile.ca.”

So I guess by this message the number I sent the message to was a landline number that got the message “test” and this error cost me 20 cent. It did make me wonder why there is even an option for this type of thing. What reason would there ever be for someone to send a text message to a landline? Funny way to learn about this odd service fee that’s for sure.

2 Comments

Steven 9/19/2015

What is even funnier is that the customer support rep I just spoke to about this denies that wind mobile has this functionality. She insisted that it must be an app that I am using. Of course when I asked her to text my landline from her wind cel she got really defensive
Alan Yu 9/19/2015

Steven,

You now make me curious as to how much the company makes as a result of this fee if it happens more often than we think.