A wireline telephony instrument for wirelessly receiving and displaying
data messages allows a wireline telephone to wirelessly receive data
messages. The data messages may include text, images, and other types of
multimedia data. Wireless receive-only capabilities may be integrated
into the wireline telephony instrument by adding an integrated circuit,
such as a CDMA chipset or a GSM chipset, to the wireline telephony
instrument. Further, by integrating a display into the wireline telephony
instrument, the wireline telephony instrument may display the data
messages. Logic is also integrated into the wireline telephone for
routing the data messages received by the wireline telephone to the
display.