Take Back the Beep: how to disable voicemail instructions on Sprint (updated!)
While we wait for all the carriers to get on board with nixing their endless, unhelpful voicemail pre-beep messages, we've already got instructions from Sprint on how to disable it for your own particular voicemail box on that network.
It's pretty easy:
Call your voicemail
At the menu, press 3 for personal options
Press 2 for greeting
Press 1 to change the greeting
To enable / disable the instructions, press 3
Trust us, we did some serious searching for similar instructions on the other major carriers, but had no luck. If you know of anything, let us know!
Update: Thanks to some helpful comments we've got instructions for AT&T and Verizon for lopping off bits of the message, and, in Verizon's case, speeding up the talking. Check 'em out after the break. Consider yourselves upgraded to orange, guys!
AT&T
There's a "cut through paging" option on AT&T's voicemail, at least for certain customers. It only cuts off that small section of the voicemail instructions (the part about paging somebody), but it's all very unclear and inconsistent. AT&T has been upgraded to orange, and you're free to try these instructions at your own risk:
Call your voicemail
Go to personal options
Go to administrative options
Select "cut through paging"
Select off
Verizon
Instructions are a little conflicting, but here's what we've gleaned from the tips. As far as we can tell, Verizon methods can vary by region, so let us know what works for you.Here's what kchinth recommends.
Personal options
Administrative options
General options
Then you will have these three options:
Auto Play On or Off
Call Back Number Prompt On or Off
Rapid Prompt or Standard Prompt
T-Mobile
Crickets.
