iPhone Voicemail Issue?

[Geffen]

When I go to voicemail i'm getting a message that says voicemail unavailable and unable to initiate connection also when my iphone rings it doesn't connect over to voicemail anyone know if there there is an outage?

 

[Jebaloo]

I had a problem yesterday.

my dad had left me a message and I got the red icon over the phone saying that there was a message, and you could see the message in the voicemail bit.

Clicking on it would just make the wheel spin for ages, and no play button would come up at all.

I ended up just deleting it and ringing my dad to see what it was about.

It hasn't happened before or since, but it was quite annoying.

 

[thepandamancan]

did you have connection to the EDGE network? The problem with visual voicemail is it only checks voicemail and downloads messages through EDGE.

 

[shrewsburywolf]

I don't think it does, I get my voicemail at home where I never have edge, plus this will mean that 70% of the country will not be able to access visual voicemail

 

[MarkW19]

Visual Voicemail doesn't require EDGE. I've been using visual voicemail quite a bit over the last couple of weeks, and have yet to see an EDGE connection (sadly).

It requires a cell connection, EITHER GPRS *OR* EDGE.

My VV has gone down a few times though, when out of cell range, which is a bit annoying as I get a red dot as if I've got a voicemail, and it's only saying that it's "currently unavailable". It soon comes back on though.