BT PARAGON 500 Telephone User Manual


 
BT Paragon 500 – Edition 4 – 10.05.04 – 5840
Welcome to the SMS Text Messaging service on your
BT Paragon 500. The SMS Service is provided by BT.
Your BT Paragon 500 can send and receive messages to
any mobile phone from participating mobile networks
and compatible landline telephones in the UK.
The fixed line SMS service is provided under BT’s terms
and conditions for telephone service. These can be found
by visiting the BT.com website at:
http://www.bt.com/terms/tor.htm
To subscribe to the SMS text messaging service
When you send your first SMS text message from your
BT Paragon 500 you will automatically be registered for
the service.
On receipt of your first SMS through the service, the
system will send you a welcome SMS message back.
You may also register by sending the word Register to 00000
upon which you will receive a confirmation message.
Cost of the fixed line service
There is no subscription charge (other than the
subscription to Caller Display). Visit the BT.com website
(www.bt.com) to find out how much it costs to send a
text message (depends upon your call package).
SMS text messaging
IMPORTANT
You must subscribe to your
Network Provider’s Caller Display
Service in order to use SMS text
messaging.
A quarterly fee is payable. You must
not have your telephone number
withheld for this service to work.
You may also send messages to
landline phones that are NOT SMS
compatible. Messages to non-
compatible lines will be connected
to voice text and delivered in
spoken words to the telephone as
a call. Please note that the
conversion can translate common
abbreviations and smileys etc, but
to ensure maximum clarity of
message delivery, abbreviations
etc should be used sparingly.
Some other network provider lines
may not be compatible with this
SMS service.
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