On 2016-08-16 14:40:31 +0000, Roland Perry said:

The last time I ordered a minicab was when living in Nottingham within
the last 5yrs.

Did you order it using a landline? If you did I can see why you might
not have experienced the text service.

FWIW, though, the first thing our local companies did was a "ringback"
service, which was to ring you back for 3 rings when your car was
dispatched and again when it was about to arrive. That did work on
landlines.

Neil
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