Has anyone had problems with phone calls going directly to voicemaileven though phone is on and in range?

I've noticed that sometime person's will call my number and the call
will go directly to voicemail. It happens fairly randomly and does it
whether I'm in the house or in the city (ie much closer to the
towers).

Now when I make a phone call out, then all my calls will come through
but until I (check in) with a phone call calls will go to voicemail.

Of course when I call tech support, the logical solution is the
distance from the tower and I must obviously need a phone with a more
powerful transmitter to bridge the gap. (which they are happy to
provide with a 2yr contract)

My question is has anyone else had this problem? If so, How often did
it occur?

I use a Motorola V262 and am very happy with it but am willing to
consider and upgrade if the phone really is the problem.

"**jt**" <john.toliver@gmail.com> wrote in news:193fa527-8e3d-4660-a986-
9278941a5558@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> I've noticed that sometime person's will call my number and the call
> will go directly to voicemail. It happens fairly randomly and does it
> whether I'm in the house or in the city (ie much closer to the
> towers).
>
> Now when I make a phone call out, then all my calls will come through
> but until I (check in) with a phone call calls will go to voicemail.
>
> Of course when I call tech support, the logical solution is the
> distance from the tower and I must obviously need a phone with a more
> powerful transmitter to bridge the gap. (which they are happy to
> provide with a 2yr contract)
>
> My question is has anyone else had this problem? If so, How often did
> it occur?
>
> I use a Motorola V262 and am very happy with it but am willing to
> consider and upgrade if the phone really is the problem.
>

Yep. I've had that happen. All of a sudden I get a voicemail
notification and someone left me a message for a call I never got.

The data system has better range than the CDMA system, me thinks.....or
is easier to get a connect in noisy conditions. Alltel seems confounded
to fix it....

I've been complaining about another anomaly that happens quite often to
me.... I get a call, miss it, goes to VM, VM notification comes in, I
listen and call VM caller back...all is well.....EXCEPT the VM voice says
I have THREE VMs waiting, not just this one! I never got a VM
notification for those other two.....one last Wednesday....one last
Friday.

So, I called Alltel and explained this. A network engineer called and
was very nice. I suggested maybe the system doesn't get an ACK from the
phone that, "Hey, I just received a VM notification" or the system
doesn't get a response from the phone because it's out of range for some
reason. That sounded reasonable...if the system doesn't get a response
that the VM notify was received, it waits 5 minutes and RETRANSMITS the
notifier every 5 minutes until the damned phone acknowledges receipt.

That doesn't happen. The stupid system is as dumb as a pocket
pager....Sends out ONE VM notification. If you miss it, tough shit.
There seems to be no way of getting the system to resend it to you EXCEPT
TO POWER THE PHONE OFF EVERY FEW HOURS, THEN POWER THE PHONE ON, WHICH
WILL CAUSE THE SYSTEM TO RETRANSMIT THE VM NOTIFIER UPON POWERUP OF THE
PHONE.

Crazy, huh? All the systems are just like ours.....dumb.

Too bad I can't forward the call to the old 152 Mhz POCSAG paging
terminal for VM storage and notification. Those twelve 500 watt Quintron
monsters on 152.480 Mhz NEVER missed the beeper from sheer POWER.

POWER is our FRIEND!.......old paging axiom.