ques about t-mobile v-mail

I just transfered my old telco landline, which I almost
never used... to a "t-mobile-at-home" account.

The etup instructions were a lot messier than they
should have been, but it all works quite well now
and will save me oodles of money versus the ILEC.

But... a couple of questions, and a big suggestion if
anyone from t-mobile is reading this...

a: how many msgs can I keep in v-mail? I couldn't
find a limit listed anywhere.

b: how can I set the number-of-rings-before-v-mail?
Again, nothing I could find.

c: and finally (for now...) it would be really, really,
nifty if the "at home" calls, or rather, the v-mails,
could get signalled out to the mobile number via a
short text msg or other indicator.

Thanks


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"danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote in message
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>I just transfered my old telco landline, which I almost
> never used... to a "t-mobile-at-home" account.
>
> The etup instructions were a lot messier than they
> should have been, but it all works quite well now
> and will save me oodles of money versus the ILEC.
>
> But... a couple of questions, and a big suggestion if
> anyone from t-mobile is reading this...
>
> a: how many msgs can I keep in v-mail? I couldn't
> find a limit listed anywhere.
>
> b: how can I set the number-of-rings-before-v-mail?
> Again, nothing I could find.
>
a and b are good questions I have no "official" answer for- the "number of
rings" (actually time in seconds) can be set on a regular GSM phone, but I
don't know if it can be done on the WiFi router's number. You could try
setting it from a handset like you can on a GSM phone. Dial **61*[voicemail
number, for T-Mo it's 18056377243]**[delay in seconds, I believe the valid
selections are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30]#[SEND]

If that doesn't work on your home phone handsets, you might try sticking the
router SIM into one of your T-Mobile phones, setting the voicemail time and
then sticking the SIM back in the router to see if the setting "sticks."

> c: and finally (for now...) it would be really, really,
> nifty if the "at home" calls, or rather, the v-mails,
> could get signalled out to the mobile number via a
> short text msg or other indicator.


Neat idea for T-Mo to add in the future. Alternatively, you can have it now
by using a third-party "Visual Voicemail" service instead of T-Mo's
voicemail. www.youmail.com offers free Visual Voicemail- you set your
voicemail forwarding number (the 1-805-637-7243 above) with the number
YouMail gives you. Then YouMail will email you and/or SMS you whenever a
voicemail is left, and the email can have the audio of the voicemail as an
attachment, so it wouldn't matter how many VMs the system can handle- you've
got the actual recording in your email Inbox to do what you will with.

I have my WinMo smartphone setup with Visual Voicemail- any VMs are sent
immediately to my push email account on the phone, so I can play them back
locally on the device without even calling in to retrieve them. YouMail
even lets you set up customer greetings for different callers if you want
to, and has a "spam block" feature which allows you to flag and reject any
numbers you don't want leaving you messages- telemarketers, etc.

In <ga6go0$mke$1@aioe.org> "Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> writes:
[snippish]

>> c: and finally (for now...) it would be really, really,
>> nifty if the "at home" calls, or rather, the v-mails,
>> could get signalled out to the mobile number via a
>> short text msg or other indicator.

>Neat idea for T-Mo to add in the future. Alternatively, you can have it now
>by using a third-party "Visual Voicemail" service instead of T-Mo's
>voicemail. www.youmail.com offers free Visual Voicemail- you set your
>voicemail forwarding number (the 1-805-637-7243 above) with the number
>YouMail gives you.

Oh, absolutely, if I want to go third party. But it would
be so much nicer if it were built in.

It turns out t-Mobile has a "page out" option which, when
you get a message in v-mail, will call out to the number
you've programmed in. And... you can, natch, set this to
your cellphone.

So when a caller leaves you a msg, your cellphone will
ring a minute or so later, showing the caller ID of
your "tm-at-home" line. It's kludgy and messy, but
modestly functional.

Oh, it has the annoying feature of continuing to call
that number every hour or so until you retrieve the msg.

(there may be a limit to the number of tries; I haven't
let it go past the second one).


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