When someone calls me and gets my VZW voice mail they first hear the
greeting message I recorded followed by the VZW generic greeting message
(female announcer).

Is there anyway to turn off the generic greeting (femal announcer) so that
it would go from my greeting message directly to the beep?

Peter
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> When someone calls me and gets my VZW voice mail they first hear the
> greeting message I recorded followed by the VZW generic greeting message
> (female announcer).
>
> Is there anyway to turn off the generic greeting (femal announcer) so that
> it would go from my greeting message directly to the beep?
>
> Peter
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Damn good question.
I've been trying to find out how to get rid of their add on message for a
long time.
I phoned India about it once. The woman accessed my voicemail, declared
that it was fixed and the call ended. It was not fixed.

Peter <XXpmpmpmXX@comcast.net> wrote in
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> When someone calls me and gets my VZW voice mail they first hear the
> greeting message I recorded followed by the VZW generic greeting
> message (female announcer).
>
> Is there anyway to turn off the generic greeting (femal announcer) so
> that it would go from my greeting message directly to the beep?

Press * and they can bypass your message and the Verizon instructions and
go straight to the beep.

follow the below advice and get to personal options and slect greetings and
select personal greeting

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> Peter <XXpmpmpmXX@comcast.net> wrote in
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>> When someone calls me and gets my VZW voice mail they first hear the
>> greeting message I recorded followed by the VZW generic greeting
>> message (female announcer).
>>
>> Is there anyway to turn off the generic greeting (femal announcer) so
>> that it would go from my greeting message directly to the beep?
>
> Press * and they can bypass your message and the Verizon instructions and
> go straight to the beep.

Thanks for the replies. Perhaps my original question was not clear enough
so I'll try again:

I'm not looking for instructions on how callers can bypass the greeting
messages. I don't want the callers to have to do anything. I'm also not
looking for instructions on how to record a greeting message. I already
know that.

My specific question: Is it possible to eliminate (turn off) the generic
greeting message (female announcer) that follows my custom greeting
message? Is there anything I can do to turn it off or is there something
I can tell VZW to do to turn it off?

Peter


On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:23:22 -0500, Peter <XXpmpmpmXX@comcast.net> wrote:

>When someone calls me and gets my VZW voice mail they first hear the
>greeting message I recorded followed by the VZW generic greeting message
>(female announcer).
>
>Is there anyway to turn off the generic greeting (femal announcer) so that
>it would go from my greeting message directly to the beep?
>
>Peter
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Peter <XXpmpmpmXX@comcast.net> wrote:

> My specific question: Is it possible to eliminate (turn off) the
> generic greeting message (female announcer) that follows my custom
> greeting message? Is there anything I can do to turn it off or is
> there something I can tell VZW to do to turn it off?
>
> Peter

According to other people who have complained about this, Verizon's
response has either been irrelevant blather or a suggestion to tell
your callers how to use "*" in your greeting. It wouldn't be a bad idea,
though, to insist that your Verizon rep submit a formal support ticket
about this. If they get enough of these, maybe they'll finally realize
that 15 seconds X (umpteen million voicemails per day) is a non-
negligible drain on the world economy, not to mention on their own
network resources.

I don't think you can completely turn off the greeting, but you may
at least be able to get rid of the ridiculous "to page this person"
part of the greeting.

Log in to your voicemail, then select:
4-Personal Options
2-Administrative Options
7-Callback Options
then turn off the callback greeting

From what I've heard, the voicemail prompts sometimes differ between
VZW service areas, so your procedure could be a bit different.

Thanks for inspiring me to dig in and figure this out!

Paul