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https://www.youmail.com/ Jason Wilson Remotely Located Providing High Speed Internet to out of the way places. 530-651-1736 530-748-9608 Cell www.remotelylocated.com On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > Yours may stop any day. > > > http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/discontinue-visual-voice-mail-july-2016/ > > They are incompetent at ‘splainin’ stuff, they keep focusing on the $2.99 > thing. So the price will change? Or there’s a new equivalent at a > different price, or free? I was told they use outsourced vendors for their > VM, and their vendor will no longer support my device. That implies it > will still support newer devices. But then why do they say the $2.99 > service is being discontinued? What does the $2.99 have to do with my > device not being supported, if other devices are still supported. Are they > saying only customers with older devices were being charged for Visual > Voicemail? Do the new devices get the free “Basic Visual Voicemail”? > > http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/voice-mail-comparison/ > > Hmmmm, even if that still exists, it only supports 20 messages max 3 > minutes duration. > > > *From:* Brandon Yuchasz <li...@gogebicrange.net> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2016 5:24 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - alternative to VZ voicemail > > > I have the same phone as well and use the visual voicemail on VZ as well. > Mines still ticking along just fine. No *86 for me so far just read the > texts and if the transcription is to bad I listen to the playback. I am > thinking that perhaps your account is just screwed up and you got a > clueless CS person. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Brandon Yuchasz > > GogebicRange.net > > www.gogebicrange.net > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince > *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2016 5:14 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - alternative to VZ voicemail > > > > I have the same phone (Droid RAZR Maxx HD). Darn nice phone. All of our > other phones are some kind of VOIP thing, which have decent voicemail > features. My home phone is Google Voice. That's nice because in addition to > the voice mail, it also sends an email and text with a transcript of the > voice message. The transcript usually has some kind of transcription error, > but it also usually gets the point across. > > > > bp > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > On 7/14/2016 2:59 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Not sure what you mean by requires a smartphone. > > > > Hey, my phone isn’t THAT old. I got it about 3 years ago. I realize > that’s an eternity in smartphone years, but it’s not like I’m carrying one > of these: > > > > [image: marty_cooper_dynatac_phone] > > > > > > *From:* Jason McKemie <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> > > *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:36 PM > > *To:* af@afmug.com > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - alternative to VZ voicemail > > > > I use Google Voice for my voicemail, but it requires a smartphone AFAIK. > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > I have a Motorola RAZR Maxx HD phone and depend heavily on Verizon's > "Visual Voicemail" (although I'd sure like to increase the 40 message > limit). > > VZ was sending me these confusing text messages about $2.99 Visual > Voicemail going away and the replacement Visual Voicemail would be the same > but free or something, I couldn't decipher what they were trying to tell me. > > Well, today my voicemail reverted to standard VM where you have to dial > *86 and step through the messages one at a time using the voice prompts. > That just won't work for me. After about 10 minutes on hold with VZ > customer support, they discovered the alerts should have said "our > outsourced voicemail vendor will stop supporting your device". So one > option would be to buy a new phone. > > Anybody have another suggestion? Is there a third party app in the Google > Play store that would work with VZ voicemail? The VZ support rep implied > that might be the case but VZ wouldn't support it. > > Or is there some kind of spiffy third party voicemail service that I could > set up my phone to forward to when busy or unavailable (a lot of my VZ > calls seem to go straight to VM without the phone ever ringing)? With an > Android app, and maybe lots of cool features and storage for more than 40 > messages? > > Or am I stuck buying a new phone just to get a working voicemail app? > > (Obviously the phone is more than 2 years old, but I won't sign a 2 year > contract for a phone anymore, if they even do that. I would end up buying > the new phone outright, so not talking chump change.) > > > > >
