The industry’s still very fragmented on the supplier side as there are very few, very powerful) customers. Unfortunately there’s little financial incentive for most mobile operators to improve any of this. Nextel used a different vendor (and so on). Of course the original ATT/Lucent has a different incompatible sequence (* to skip the greeting, Sprint deployed different systems with a custom voicemail UI. Octel based voicemail systems (now offered by Alcatel-Lucent and Avaya) used “1” to do the greeting bypass, # to skip the greeting and login as a subscriber, * to disconnect. There’s a bit of history behind these different codes. Since they round up the call time it doesn’t take much of a delay to make a voicemail call bill out at 2 minutes. In some countries it’s illegal for the operator to charge subscribers airtime to retrieve their voicemail, and they need to warn guest callers about billing to give them a chance to hang up before being charged).Ĭlearly the operator’s interests in this case are misaligned with those of their subscribers and their guest callers – keep in mind that depending on the billing scheme it’s not the subscriber that gets billed, but rather the guest caller that tried to reach them.īottom line: if they can bill someone then they’ll drag out the menu a bit to extend the call. In case you’re curious, it’s all about the operator and whether they bill you by the minute or not (mobile operators in the US do, most wireline operators today, at least in the US don’t. ![]() I’ve put up a post on the Crowd Favorite blog about how I use WordPress and the FavePersonal theme (free!) to own my… I’ve been told that our on-boarding process can… When I first made my transition from front-end development into back-end development in ~2002, I had two things to learn: a…Īt Crowd Favorite we’re getting ready to hire several developers. Other Recent-ish Posts of Note on This Site Know the “magic button” for another carrier? Add it in the comments. The magic button for skipping straight to leaving a voicemail message is: So I tried it out 1, and here are the results. The inability to do this with my friends on Cingular has always annoyed me, and since switching to T-Mobile I have the same frustration with the T-Mobile voicemail as well.Īfter a bit of searching, I found this which claims that the # key is the magic button on these networks (of course, I also found this that claims it isn’t). They are even kind enough to tell you this during the extended “instructional” section of the greeting. ![]() If you call someone on the Sprint network, you can press 1 to skip the voicemail greeting and get straight to leaving a message.
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