I'm sure this will give AT&T another reason to increase my iPhone blll another $5 per month.
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Widespread AT&T Voicemail Outage Affecting iPhone Users in the US
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Upstate NY here and have NO problems at all on the XR and the wife's SE. AT&T for over 11 years, they have there glitches but nothing worth getting upset over to us. Tried T-Mobile and they were BETTER where they had great coverage, but where we are you more or less have to outside or you can make calls via wifi.
There are other carriers
There are other carriers
Mine went out Tuesday night so I contacted them. They confirmed its a network thing and it was being worked on. Mine came back by Wednesday 10am. My wife had no issues. She’s on ios 12. I’m on 13.
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So says you. Plenty of business to business reasons I might get a voicemail.
Back in 2003 I managed a Tmobile affiliate store when they allowed porting of numbers from one provider to another. The first person who came in had the old AT&T and after an endless amount of swears by him, 10 minutes later he was ported to T-Mobile. Each port took longer and longer and it was later revealed there was so many ports out the AT&T systems couldn't handle it
Per here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Wireless_Services
"AT&T Wireless' decline climaxed in 2003 with the FCC mandating the allowance of porting numbers to other carriers. AT&T Wireless experienced a mass exodus of many customers who were fed up with years of degrading service and poor coverage. By the end of 2003, AT&T Wireless faced a public relations nightmare when a new system for adding subscribers and porting numbers in/out was implemented and botched. Realizing that it faced an impossible situation, AT&T Wireless Services, Inc began accepting bids in early 2004 to be acquired."
"AT&T as a wireless brand is alive and well; however, the old AT&T Wireless Services company remains defunct."
The reason I point this out is if people wonder why so many folks HATE AT&T , some never forgot
Per here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Wireless_Services
"AT&T Wireless' decline climaxed in 2003 with the FCC mandating the allowance of porting numbers to other carriers. AT&T Wireless experienced a mass exodus of many customers who were fed up with years of degrading service and poor coverage. By the end of 2003, AT&T Wireless faced a public relations nightmare when a new system for adding subscribers and porting numbers in/out was implemented and botched. Realizing that it faced an impossible situation, AT&T Wireless Services, Inc began accepting bids in early 2004 to be acquired."
"AT&T as a wireless brand is alive and well; however, the old AT&T Wireless Services company remains defunct."
The reason I point this out is if people wonder why so many folks HATE AT&T , some never forgot
Interesting. I wonder if this had anything to do with the carrier update I got a couple of days ago. My voicemail has been working just fine though even before the update.
No problem here except that I got an unexpected voicemail from a friend -- accidental "butt dial" -- so I heard part of a conversation between two people and none of it involved me. Weird.... I texted the friend and alerted him and assured him I'd deleted the voice mail which I did when I realized it wasn't really meant for me.
Sprint was worse because they would keep billing you.
a switched to TMobile at that time. They had to step out the door to activate my phone because of signal. After 2 days I had to cancel.
went to Cingular. Great company. Att is cingular, not that old att.
Thank you for posting this. I thought I was the only person receiving those Chinese spam calls. After reading your post, I did a quick Google search and found out it’s a such a common problem that CBS News has an article about it. Here’s a link to that CBS News article about the common Chinese spam calls:
What's behind all those Chinese-speaking robocalls
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are getting scammed into paying up to avoid putting their status here in jeopardy
www.cbsnews.com
The idea of enjoying your cell phone company is roughly the same as the idea of enjoying an IRS audit. Having said that, I’m satisfied with AT&T, and far more satisfied than I was with Verizon. YMMV.
Either way, having read through these posts I was very surprised to learn that this voicemail issue isn’t somehow “Timmy’s” fault.
Either way, having read through these posts I was very surprised to learn that this voicemail issue isn’t somehow “Timmy’s” fault.
This must be why my voicemails are delayed by up to 24 hours. Been like that for over a month. Not that I cared enough to call 611... I only get voicemails from scammers and my mother.
I did notice the bug with Visual Voicemail disappearing and being replaced with the "Call Voicemail" button. But it was only like that for a few hours. I was on vacation in Canada though, so I assumed it was just some glitch with me roaming on Rogers.
I did notice the bug with Visual Voicemail disappearing and being replaced with the "Call Voicemail" button. But it was only like that for a few hours. I was on vacation in Canada though, so I assumed it was just some glitch with me roaming on Rogers.
Same. Verizon, although expensive actually provide me with coverage that works, speed that matters and a service that I can rely on minus the robocalls. Plus Verizon have a nice little feature that translates Voicemail to text without actually having to listen to the darn thing. 10/10
'Plus Verizon have a nice little feature that translates Voicemail to text without actually having to listen to the darn thing.'
It's called Visual Voicemail and ALL iPhones have it.
As for the voicemail bug, I was in the hospital yesterday and only been out a few hours, so I have no idea if I've been affected.
It's called Visual Voicemail and ALL iPhones have it.
As for the voicemail bug, I was in the hospital yesterday and only been out a few hours, so I have no idea if I've been affected.
Geez, I had no idea. Thank you for the reply!Thank you for posting this. I thought I was the only person receiving those Chinese spam calls. After reading your post, I did a quick Google search and found out it’s a such a common problem that CBS News has an article about it. Here’s a link to that CBS News article about the common Chinese spam calls:
What's behind all those Chinese-speaking robocalls
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are getting scammed into paying up to avoid putting their status here in jeopardy
Here's AT&T. I moved to a new area. The landlord was getting weird about sharing his spectrum account. He wanted money for a WiFi connection. So I went to find out what other internet access I could get. The only thing besides Spectrum was AT&T. What kind? 1998-style DSL, around 5mbps, and it cost $70. Made a deal with the landlord.
Actually, Visual Voicemail is not the translated Voicemail to text. VV is just a visible list of voicemails that you can view on your iPhone without having to dial your VM number to listen to them. VV has been around a lot longer than the feature to translate to text. Now, the translate to text is just a feature of VV I believe.
I still leave voicemails with contractors, etc. when I am establishing an initial contact. I have found they respond more quickly than texting. Also, because I have Silence Unknown Callers on, people will leave me voicemails when they need me to respond.
