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> and a nice number to give out when you don’t want to give out your real one. I’ve setup a voip.ms number just for voicemail. Unanswered calls to my phone get
by Scoundreller 4y ago
> and a nice number to give out when you don’t want to give out your real one.
I’ve setup a voip.ms number just for voicemail. Unanswered calls to my phone get redirected to that number after X rings (this functionality is baked into gsm). Then the voicemails get emailed to me so I never deal with my provider’s voicemail IVR.
So for people I don’t want to call me, I give them that voicemail number and it always goes straight to voicemail.
It’s also nice because I can still get and keep voicemails if I’m, say, out of country for 30 days because my provider deletes them after 10 or something days.
Easy to share and save voicemails automagically.
- thfuran 4y agoI use a voip.ms IVR to filter calls since I was getting so many spam calls on my phone. Whitelisted numbers ring through and everyone else has to press a number. It totally killed all spam.
- happyopossum 4y ago> I never deal with my provider’s voicemail IVR In the era of smartphones, why would anyone use an IVR for voicemail? On phone VM UI was a launch day feature for iPhone…
- Scoundreller 4y agoOnly if your provider supports it. I’m in the 4th world when it comes to telecoms (Canada). I only set this all up in the first place because our providers charged for voicemail more recently than you’d like to know.