If you have a Notebook with an embedded WWAN device (GSM/LTE/5G) and want to quickly send a SMS message, there is a way to do this with mmcli (ModemManager CLI):

1st: List the available modem devices:

$ mmcli list

2nd: Sent the SMS via an available modem (in my case moden no. 0):

$ mmcli -m 0 --messaging-create-sms="text='Hello world',number='+1XXXXXXXXXX"

Messaging | created sms: /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/SMS/7

3rd: Use the ID of the message and send it to the ether:

$ mmcli -m 0 --sms 7 --send
successfully sent the SMS

That's it. You can also read incoming SMS with mmcli by listing them with "mmcli -m 0 --messaging-list-sms" and then reading the invidual messages by their ID with "mmcli -m 0 --sms ID --send"

Déprime au MoDem: Bayrou plonge à 17% d'opinions favorables dans les sondages. "C'est notre champion, on doit le soutenir mais c'est dur, confie l'un d'eux. Résultat, la réunion de groupe du mardi vire en "bureau des lamentations". Au centre des tensions, le virage ultra-droitier du Premier ministre, sur l'immigration ou les retraites. "Il y en a qui découvrent que Bayrou ne pense qu'à sa pomme", se marre un ex-conseiller à droite

Ah ah "Poulets sans têtes" c'est tellement ça ! ce titre de Courrier est un chef d’œuvre !!

#Politique
#France
#Editocratie
#RN #EM #LR #MoDem #PS #LFI
#Collabo

I can hardly explain just how crazy warp speed this is to me. I started on my 1200 baud modem, lived through the 'what even is 56k spec'.

Today's kids don't know that, back in the 1990s, the units in apartment buildings usually had only one telephone landline socket near the entrance. Since we used our PC in a bedroom often at the opposite end of the apartment, when we needed dial-up Internet access we had to run a roll-up extension cable through most of the apartment to connect the modem in the PC room to the phone socket. Every single time.

Qualcomm Claims New X85 Modem Creates 'Huge Delta' in Performance versus Apple — https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/05/qualcomm-claims-x85-modem-better-than-apple/
#HackerNews #Qualcomm #X85 #Apple #Performance #Tech #News #Mobile #Modem

More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises — https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/05/1670/
#HackerNews #More #thoughts #on #the #1670 #modem's #weird #noises #technology #retrocomputing #sounddesign #modemtalk

Why 56k Modems Relied On Digital Phone Lines You Didn’t Know We Had - If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handsha... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56k-modems-relied-on-digital-phone-lines-you-didnt-know-we-had/ #peripheralshacks #digitalsignal0 #originalart #modulation #phoneline #featured #56kmodem #history #56kpbs #modem #pcm

Some artifacts from an active network closet down the hall, at the office in DC: a USRobotics 33.6 modem and a DEC VT520

#VT520 #DEC vitangecomputing #retrocomputing #artifacts #foundatwork #network #closet #modem #USRobotics #CRT #terminal #photo

Smol #LTE #antenna on top of a feeder pillar in an #electricity #substation - this is linked to a #modem / #router and #SCADA / #PLC equipment that monitors the status and power usage on the low voltage (230/400V) network - it works well enough (and has battery backup) so when there was a #powercut I didn't even need to call 105 - UK Power Networks already knew the area was off supply! #infrastructure #Suffolk

Well, that's another ding in Apple's hardware.

Maybe the next gen will add support.

Apple's C1 Modem Debut Suggests iPhone 17 Air Will Lack mmWave

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/20/apples-c1-modem-iphone-17-air-lack-mmwave/

I would like to finally upgrade my #pinephone #modem with the alternate firmware. gnome-firmware just states "No Releases available". fwupdmgr does the same (0 of 1 devices for local updates) Searching for any of the messages gives, you guessed it: 0 (zero) results. Any hints to a current guide appreciated.
Main reason for upgrading the modem: I hope, that USSD codes in gnome calls will work instead of just showing the dialpad.
I am running #DanctNIX on the basic pinephone (not pro version).

Apple is so close to owning the entire hardware stack.

Apple Unveils 'C1' as First Custom Cellular Modem

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/19/apple-unveils-c1/

Welcome to the #TelephoneExchange shed my new beepyboopy friend!

This is a “GPO Modem 2B” - a #dialup #modem… phone line in, RS232 out at a whopping 300bps!

It’s all discrete components (no ICs here!) and beautifully built with all the diodes/resistors mounted on little plastic carriers.

The modulator, demodulator etc are on separate, pull-out cards

It’s a gorgeous chunk of engineering, that I’ll be carefully powering up over the next few weeks!

Thanks for the swap @anachrocomputer

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-35-cent-commodore-64-softmodem.html

BBSing, as one does on a snow day.