SMS Text to Landline - great idea - but not though...

I like the fact that texts can be sent to landlines. BUT unless you recognise the number, the sender texts their name, or you can work out who it's from, they can be pretty annoying.
Now that mobiles are so much more advanced people send texts out to contacts in their address book sometimes without thinking about or checking which number (home/work/mobile etc) it is going to. Companies using sms to contact clients are going to receive more and more responses into their landline and it will often be impossible to work out who sent the text.
As far as I can see the only options to control this are to limit the hours when texts are received or turn it off completely. 
I would like to suggest another option to BT:
FORWARD THE SMS TO ANOTHER MOBILE SO THAT THE MESSAGE CAN BE VIEWED IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM.
Simples.

I too have been recieving these annoying text to speech message calls, all from the same number and always the same message. They come through at the same time to my wife's mobile too... Each being an indentical message???
I've followed the instructions by dialing the 0800 number below and have managed to get what I wanted. However, recently they've started up again?????
When I ring said number to 'change' I'm informed that I've already selected to 'not recieve these' and yet they're still coming through!!!!
When it first started, I spoke to a human being who, once he established I wasn't a BT customer, didn't want to know!!!
But as it's YOUR service, I feel you have some responsibility to let us know how to permantly stop these nuisance calls!!!
Where do I go from here.... would somebody PLEASE help me!!!!
btw, the message says. "Keep this message from Cole & Trevor n Cole...Three million and eight billion....... and so on
It's driving us insain!!!!!
Thank you

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