Skipping answer machine msgs

O2 and Orange have the brilliant idea of allowing a caller to press #
during the answer machine msg to go straight to the beep so you can record
a msg. But Virgin, T-Mobile and Vodafone AFAIK don't allow you to do this
and instead ask you for a PIN number. Why can't they all follow the same
standard?

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Thus spaketh [email protected]:
> C. Señor <[email protected]> wrote in message
> <[email protected]>:
>
>> O2 and Orange have the brilliant idea of allowing a caller to press #
>> during the answer machine msg to go straight to the beep so you can
>> record a msg. But Virgin, T-Mobile and Vodafone AFAIK don't allow
>> you to do this and instead ask you for a PIN number. Why can't they
>> all follow the same standard?
>
> Probably because the Orange implementation is not a standard but is a
> proprietary implementation and potentially something that's been
> patented?

That's the way they have always done it.

[email protected] wrote:

> C. Señor <[email protected]> wrote in message
> <[email protected]>:
>
>>O2 and Orange have the brilliant idea of allowing a caller to press #
>>during the answer machine msg to go straight to the beep so you can record
>>a msg. But Virgin, T-Mobile and Vodafone AFAIK don't allow you to do this
>>and instead ask you for a PIN number. Why can't they all follow the same
>>standard?
>
> Probably because the Orange implementation is not a standard but is a
> proprietary implementation and potentially something that's been
> patented?

BT and O2 support pressing # to skip the msg though as well as some answer
machines.