A number to go to your voicemail?

It doesn't make sense, but it works.!

"David G. Imber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:49:45 -0700, "Alex Song"
> <song0330@REMOVE_MEcomcast.net> wrote:
>
> >"boe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> I got the info on another forum - Take your sprint number and replace
the
> >> last four digits with 6245 (mail)
> >>
> >
> >So If my cell number is 555-1212, I would dial 555-6245 to get my
voicemail?
> >
> >That doesn't make sense.
>
> That's correct. Do it all the time. Dial the area code first, of
> course.
>
> So it would be 1-917-555-MAIL (6245)
>
> You hear a welcome, then you're asked to input your number
> and press pound: 917 555 1212#
>
> Then you're asked to enter your four-digit password and press
> pound.
>
> That's it.
>

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This is a carryover from the very early cell phone days, before easy
roaming etc. For instance, say you were traveling( and even as late at
the middle 90's it was a ***** to roam consistently) if you knew
whomever you were calling were in a certain city, you could look up a
number in each city, (at that time it was mainly for roaming) but the
number would be the area code, and a seven digit number which would
bring up a dial tone - you would then input the 10 cellular number,
which would ring the cell phone--this was handy in that you could call
your cell phone with a local number rather than calling long distance
back to the home area, and then get another long distance and roam
charge back to the cell phone--I had forgot about this until seeing
these postings--until free long distance came along (it's not been that
long)it was a real challenge to make a roaming cell call, and it was
fairly expensive. Does anybody remember having to dial *19 or something
like that to announce your phones existence and to turn the roaming
ability on and off--had to carry a little book with you (if you wanted
to be able to try and use your phone) which had the roam numbers and I
believe the mail box numbers--the *18, and *19 commands--had to redo all
this every 24 hours. also had to set the A/B switch--And the proceedures
changed every other month..
and today we worry about 2 bars or 4 bars of signal.

Sorry for the long post--but it took a long time to make a call
too--lord help you if you lost your little book

"news.comcast.giganews.com" <[email protected]> wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> It doesn't make sense, but it works.!
>
> "David G. Imber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:49:45 -0700, "Alex Song"
> > <song0330@REMOVE_MEcomcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > >"boe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > >news:[email protected]...
> > >> I got the info on another forum - Take your sprint number and replace
> the
> > >> last four digits with 6245 (mail)
> > >>
> > >
> > >So If my cell number is 555-1212, I would dial 555-6245 to get my
> voicemail?
> > >
> > >That doesn't make sense.
> >
> > That's correct. Do it all the time. Dial the area code first, of
> > course.
> >
> > So it would be 1-917-555-MAIL (6245)
> >
> > You hear a welcome, then you're asked to input your number
> > and press pound: 917 555 1212#
> >
> > Then you're asked to enter your four-digit password and press
> > pound.
> >
> > That's it.
> >
>
>

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