 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | Get Youmail For those that dont have the option to change their carrier supplied VM, I suggest trying Youmail. Its a free service, and it provides a lot of cool features like customized voicemails for individual callers, call transcriptions, and voicemail to mp3 conversions. It also completely removes the annoying "voicemail instructions" being discussed here. If you do decide to use it, please be aware that Sprint (and only Sprint) charges $0.20 per minute for voicemails left.
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| What exactly does Sprint charge for? I'm a bit unclear how that works, and how they can charge. |
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I've been using this for two months now on my Storm. Is the best FREE voicemail app that I've seen. Not only saves me the $2.99 visual voicemail charge from VZ but it has so many more useful features...
I love how it greats my contacts by name or I can have different voicemail playbacks depending on the contact or group... |
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Nevermind... looks like they get ya by the call forward function. |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | reply to CMoore2004
said by CMoore2004:What exactly does Sprint charge for? I'm a bit unclear how that works, and how they can charge. Your voicemail is (obviously) reached by dialing your phone number. Sprint allows you to change the destination of this phone number, but when you do they charge you $0.20 per minute for 'call forwarding'. This means that I get charged $0.20 for every minute of voicemail I receive. This ends up costing me an extra $10 per month, but its worth it.
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Obama = Jimmy Carter part 2
"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move"
-Sun Tzu-
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | reply to chemaupr
said by chemaupr:I've been using this for two months now on my Storm. Is the best FREE voicemail app that I've seen. Not only saves me the $2.99 visual voicemail charge from VZ but it has so many more useful features... I love how it greats my contacts by name or I can have different voicemail playbacks depending on the contact or group... Yep, the visual voicemail is pretty sweet. I am also a huge fan of the fact that I get an email (with attached mp3) of all the voicemails I get. If its an important message I can forward it along to someone else, and do other things with it. Youmail is definitely a great service.
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Obama = Jimmy Carter part 2
"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move"
-Sun Tzu-
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to CMoore2004
said by CMoore2004:Nevermind... looks like they get ya by the call forward function. Indeed they do. |
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Sprint does not charge anything you just have the option of removing that option |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | said by fjr3020:Sprint does not charge anything you just have the option of removing that option That is incorrect. Sprint charges $0.20 per minute for call forward. |
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| said by wifi4milez:That is incorrect. Sprint charges $0.20 per minute for call forward. You used to be able to skirt by the charges if you had a Sprint Rep initiate...
No Answer Call Forwarding
Busy Call Forwarding
Unreachable Call Forwarding
...instead of Unconditional Call Forwarding (which is default).
I don't think that trick works any more. I suppose I could grab one of the Sprint bills from the comptroller, then I'd know for sure.
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | said by Noah Vail:said by wifi4milez:That is incorrect. Sprint charges $0.20 per minute for call forward. You used to be able to skirt by the charges if you had a Sprint Rep initiate... No Answer Call Forwarding Busy Call Forwarding Unreachable Call Forwarding ...instead of Unconditional Call Forwarding (which is default). I don't think that trick works any more. I suppose I could grab one of the Sprint bills from the comptroller, then I'd know for sure. NV What you describe is actually what I did, and unfortunately the trick doesnt seem to work anymore. If you get a chance please do check an invoice and see if the charges are showing up. If not, I will give Sprint a buzz and see if I can trick them into re-activating it!
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Obama = Jimmy Carter part 2
"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move"
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