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Which networks offer Visual Voicemail on iPhone?
I lived in France until a couple of years ago & over the years upgraded my iPhone on Orange as new models came out. It was quite a shock when I came back to the UK & signed up with Three to discover that they don't offer the lovely Visual Voicemail that I had assumed was the default Apple way of handling voice message on the iPhone. As an alternative I have been using the app Hullomail which is OK as far as it goes but seems to be getting increasingly erratic e.g. intercepting calls & sending straight to voicemail instead of dining & I also cannot figure out how to change the email address that messages get forwarded to. My contract is up soon & while unlimited data is nice as I now don't travel that much tethering isn't so important to me that I am considering changing provider. I would prefer to have Visual Voicemail but am not inclined to sign up with O2 who I know offer it. Do any of the other networks offer Visual Voicemail?
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EE offer it too.
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EE certainly offer made my life so much easier. I understand exactly what you mean iOS Visual Voicemail is far better than having to ring up to listen to them. I couldn't go back to not using Visual Voicemail.
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It's expensive for a network to implement Apple's Visual Voicemail service, and given the trend away from people actually making phone calls, let alone using voicemail, there's not much demand for it in the UK.
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I missed Visual Voicemail when I left O2.
However there is an app, called Hullomail that, in it's basic form, offers the same feature. If you pay you get additional whizzy features, such as a transcript emailed to you. |
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I lived in France until a couple of years ago & over the years upgraded my iPhone on Orange as new models came out. It was quite a shock when I came back to the UK & signed up with Three to discover that they don't offer the lovely Visual Voicemail
I would prefer it if the integrated Apple solution was supported but this was the next best thing for me. |
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It's expensive for a network to implement Apple's Visual Voicemail service, and given the trend away from people actually making phone calls, let alone using voicemail, there's not much demand for it in the UK.
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That is correct.
Course there are pitfalls. It doesn't work on WC if there's no 3G as well. God, there's always something isn't there. I wonder if one day everything will just work?
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And Tesco Mobile refuse to support it
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Not sure if it's expensive but I know it's certainly requires a lot of core work to get working. I was surprised Vodafone never implemented it to be honest it was nice that EE took the effort to get it implemented. If I remember correctly only reason O2 did because it was required to when iPhone was exclusive to them.
EE supplies it to everyone on an EE plan (not those on legacy Orange or T-mobile plans). |
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I think Orange did it (why EE now offers it) but used to charge for it as an add-on, whereas with O2 it was included if you had an iPhone plan, but any other plan (e.g. simplicity) you lost it. So it was obviously a premium feature.
EE supplies it to everyone on an EE plan (not those on legacy Orange or T-mobile plans). O2 originally included it on all iPhone contracts it was required by Apple for them to do that. Apple wanted to revolutionise Voicemail and they did but it didn't hit off sadly. |
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Found this Hope it's useful?
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Very interesting as the official Apple statement of support not just for Visual Voicemail but other features like LTE.
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HulloMail is much more powerful. It works through WiFi too.
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HulloMail is much more powerful. It works through WiFi too.
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I missed Visual Voicemail when I left O2.
However there is an app, called Hullomail that, in it's basic form, offers the same feature. If you pay you get additional whizzy features, such as a transcript emailed to you. |
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As I already stated several times the problem that I have with HulloMail is that about 80% of the time calls go direct to voicemail even when I have a good signal. It's particularly irritating when I am waiting for a call back from someone & have the phone in my hand so I know that it didn't ring but it still goes straight to HulloMail.
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