[access-uk] Re: talking Telephone Answering Machines

  • From: Christopher Maule-Oatway <c.maule@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:19:09 +0100

David,

NTL provides two voicemail services, both accessible by dialing 1571.

One service is free and behaves rather like the BT 1571 service. You can replay, save, or delete messages. The outgoing message is a standard NTL recorded one and cannot be changed.

The other service costs £1.50 a month, I think. This allows youto record your own outgoing message, set up a Personal Identification Number, and change the default name of your mailbox, which is your phone number. It is, apparently, also possible to listen to your incoming messages from another phone, though I was never able to make this feature work!

With both services, the caller is switched to the voicemail if the phone is engaged which cannot happen with an answering machine.

If there are unopened messages in the mailbox, the dialing tone sounds intermittently.

NTL only gives you five rings in which to answer the phone before the call is transferred to voicemail. Also, you cannot hear the incoming message as it is being spoken, of course.

Hope this helps.

Chris


At 15:12 18/09/05 +0100, you wrote:

David

We use a BT Synergy 700. All the menus speak and it is fairly easy to use. The only drawback is that the ringbone is fairly quite but I have got around this with a loud ringer unit from the RNID.

We are on NTL and there are no compatibility issues.

Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-Uk@Freelists. Org" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:54 AM
Subject: [access-uk] talking Telephone Answering Machines


Hi Folks,

I know we have discussed this before, but can people recommend a good
talking telephone answering machine.  The one I have is very unreliable,
talks some but not most of the menu items, and is generally not very good.
I am with NTL and, as far as I am aware, they do not have an answering
service similar to BT.

Any thoughts and recommendations?

David
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