There is no way this could come off of our Airtime minutes. It had a separate checkmark on the plan page, and it even says Visual Voicemail in the DATA description. Still wanna try to argue it?
AT&T says playing voice mail comes off your minutes
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i work for AT&T and this is correct. you have unlimited visual voicemail. and it does use data and not minutes so it will not take out of your minutes. any other phone we carry does take out of your minutes
Now that this has been verified, when someone leaves a voice mail are they leaving it directly on your iPhone (like it's a physical answering machine) or is it left on a remote voicemail server where it is downloaded onto the iPhone like it's a physical answering machine?
The voicemail is recorded in the Visual Voicemail system (carrier side) and then it is sent to your phone (via data) where it is stored. This is why you can listen to existing voicemail messages on your phone even in airplane mode or in areas of no service, but you cannot receive new voicemail messages until you re-establish a connection. Have you also noticed that when you call yourself or anyone with an iPhone and get their voicemail, the record prompt (beep) occurs right after the greeting plays? No "after the tone, please leave your message. For more options press..." blah blah blah nonsense. For that reason alone I wish everyone in the world had an iPhone. I hate waiting for the seemingly endless banter of the autoattendand to be finished to actually leave someone a voicemail.
Keep singin' it man...I 100% agree with you. There are some voicemail systems that are PAINFULLY long...it's like are those companies trying to eat our minutes alive?!? I remember when I used to be on Sprint, we had the option of going with our voice prompt w/o any auto-attendant speaking, or could go w/ auto-attendant and our voice. I tell all of my friends that if they can shorten their voicemail greetings, DO SO. They never do, but at least I feel better nagging their asses about it. I'm glad to know my phone is efficient in yet another way.
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hey, i am postitive it doesn't count as minutes used. when you pay 20 for data it includes unlimited visual voicemail. UNLIMITED!
UUUGGGHHH! ESPECIALLY when the ignorant ass service providers refuse to include a button that instantly starts recording.
What the hell do you mean: "Sorry. 1, is not a valid option."? Why isn't there some universal set of rules being applied to these answering machines?
Such a pet peeve of mine.