http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/ Engadget Comments for David Pogue launches all-out war on canned voicemail messages http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/In China texting cost about .1 Yuan per msg which equals about 2 cents USD.]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
1. Call Your Voicemail
2. At the menu, press 3 for Personal Options
3. Press 2 for Greeting
4. Press 1 to change the greeting.
5. To enable/disable the instructions, press 3
6. Then press 2 to disable them.]]>Jul 30th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
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I always press 3 to skip straight to the beep. Work most times (especially ATT numbers). Sometimes you get an error, but you gotta try.]]>Jul 30th 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
and dont even get me started on the swindling of text messages. how just about all major all the major carriers were able to simultaneously jack their prices up from .10 a message to .20 (w/out the cost of delivering the messages going up) w/ out getting big time investigated is beyond me. that is truly americans getting ripped off.

i dont wanna harp about goog voice anymore than i have, but i'm really hoping that in the coming months/years (if it really takes off) it will help keep the big telecomm companies honest. because honestly, they're simply raping us (especially you att...i hate your guts)]]>Jul 30th 2009 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
FUCK VOICEMAIL]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/I'm pretty sure he died within the last year]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=358659 (excuse the myspaciness...)]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw]]>Jul 30th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
PPS: David Pogue is always whining about something.]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
I have so many unused minutes it's ridiculous. With ATT they roll over and I keep unused for over a year.

Also, my mom and boss are the only to people ever to leave me a voice mail. Most people that call me just hang up before the voice mail because they'll know I'll see the missed call. If it's really important they'll follow up with a text message.]]>Jul 30th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
In an attempt to make sense of the $620M, I have tried to do the math, and it comes out to $0.0000169/minute (with some assumptions). Obviously, if you go over your plan's limit, you spend more than that on overage minutes. Let's say they cost you $0.10/minute. In that case, if 20% of the 70M subscribers would have to get 15 minutes of overage minutes to make up that $620M - doesn't seem all that realistic to me. Throw in prepaid, pay-as-you-go, and tweak the rate, it could be possible.

Another area to check out would be the company's access fees. Maybe they are charging access fees on their network that gives them some sort of incentive to have customers using more minutes. Typically, though, wireless carriers have fought to lower those access fees, because they are usually paying them, so that doesn't seem to make much sense.

I think we should start a massive complaint campaign to Mr. Pogue asking documentation on his numbers. Or somebody could just give him a call...]]>Jul 30th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 31st 2009 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
now if the phone is turned off or has no reception, and the caller goes straight to voicemail... well then I can see why you would need to leave a callback number via text.

but yeah, I'm with you and everyone else. 6 years ago AT&T did not charge for texts received, just charged for sendign (around 10 cents I think). since then it has gone to 20 cents to send or receive.]]>Jul 30th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/Jul 30th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/david-pogue-launches-all-out-war-on-canned-voicemail-messages/
Less burden on carrier infrastructure, and those stupid long messages nearly ensure a 2 minute charge for minutes vs. a 1 minute charge. ]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:16PM