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eXcalibur - 26 Oct 2006 17:07 GMT

http://www.fido.ca/portal/promos/personal/vm/en/promotion.jsp

I can't say that I'm impressed with the changes, particularly the move of
my voicemail access to the 403 area code. I presume that this means that
if I want to check my voicemail from a land line (which I usually do), I am
now paying long distance charges. The alternative is to listen on my
handset and use up more of my minutes.

Either way, it's not a good change.

Cheers!

eXcalibur

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DevilsPGD - 26 Oct 2006 20:44 GMT

>http://www.fido.ca/portal/promos/personal/vm/en/promotion.jsp
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>Either way, it's not a good change.

You can still call your own handset from a landline, send the call to
voicemail, and go from there, no?

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eXcalibur - 26 Oct 2006 22:44 GMT

> You can still call your own handset from a landline, send the call to
> voicemail, and go from there, no?

I'm not sure. I suppose that it will depend on the restrictiveness of the
"Removal of the option of leaving a message via the Voice Messaging access
Number to a voice mailbox from a landline" change, which is also scheduled
to occur on Monday for AB, SK, and MN customers.

Cheers!

eXcalibur

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DevilsPGD - 27 Oct 2006 09:56 GMT

>> You can still call your own handset from a landline, send the call to
>> voicemail, and go from there, no?
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>Number to a voice mailbox from a landline" change, which is also scheduled
>to occur on Monday for AB, SK, and MN customers.

That's a different feature -- I wonder if that will hit Rogers customers
too, as it is it's possible to both leave messages and retrieve messages
by calling the access number directly.

Handy when you want to leave someone a message, but not risk ringing
their phone if it's inappropriate at the time.

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tonygets - 03 Nov 2006 00:41 GMT

is fido going to change how they notify the handset of a new message.
The current SMS telling a user of a new message is very unreliable.
Rogers uses the VM indicator built in to a phone to notify of a new
message. I am am out of range and miss the initial sms i will receive
another SMS of a new message many hours later when it is too late to
act on the message..

> >> You can still call your own handset from a landline, send the call to
> >> voicemail, and go from there, no?
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> Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't nothing?
> Peter: Oh yeah

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DevilsPGD - 03 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT

>is fido going to change how they notify the handset of a new message.
>The current SMS telling a user of a new message is very unreliable.
>Rogers uses the VM indicator built in to a phone to notify of a new
>message. I am am out of range and miss the initial sms i will receive
>another SMS of a new message many hours later when it is too late to
>act on the message..

Normally doesn't the network hold SMS messages sent when your phone is
off? Or are VM SMS messages different somehow?

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