Increase Voice Mail Storage? Why do I get voicemails when no one calls?

Two problems. First, how do I increase voice mail storage? I have 7gig free and I have to delete voice mails because the box is full?

Every now and then I get a voice mail, but no one called called. Can people send you a voice mail without actually calling you first?

Thanks!

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Posted on Nov 24, 2008 5:48 PM

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Nov 25, 2008 7:07 AM in response to Mr Alexander

Mr Alexander wrote:
Every now and then I get a voice mail, but no one called called. Can people send you a voice mail without actually calling you first?

Yes, but it's complicated and most people don't know how to do it. Calls will go directly to voicemail under the following conditions:

1. You are out of range of a tower.
2. You are in range, but there are no available channels in range.
3. You are actively using an EDGE (not 3G) connection at the time of the call.
4. You are on a call and you don't have call waiting enabled by your carrier

Nov 25, 2008 7:51 AM in response to Mr Alexander

Mr Alexander wrote:
Might be 3. I could have been checking the weather at the time.

If you use Push email your phone can be connected without any explicit action on your part. You could be running any app that gets data over the air, like Safari, Facebook, etc.
Could be 2 also, but isn't that pretty unusual?

Not that unusual. There isn't much reserve bandwidth on cellular networks.
That the iPhone's voicemail storage is limited to AT&T's storage limits is a design flaw. What's the point of having hard drive storage if you don't use it?

Well, it's not quite as clearcut as that. You can retrieve email by calling your mailbox from another phone. The messages are on the AT&T voicemail server when you do this. If call and don't get a message, but it is on Visual VM on your phone you would think THAT was a design flaw.

Nov 25, 2008 8:46 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Don't use push email. Fairly vanilla user. I call, get calls, and voice mails. I check weather, stocks, and very seldom emails. I look up when the first is on the calendar and use the calculator. I don't have any apps that did not come with the phone. I use Safari once a month when I'm bored waiting for something. Your answer is very complete, it's just I don't do much of that stuff. Oh, I text my sons every six months so they don't think that I am from the stone age. 😉 But maybe I am.

I don't see why anyone would call their cell phone provider from a different phone to pick up emails. For a landline voicemailbox, yes all the time, but not a cell. If someone wants to do that they should be able to set some option to do it, fine. That's good design. But it is a design flaw to have 7gig of storage and be told you have no room left. There is no reason that my voice mail storage should be limited by some other site somewhere else on the planet. My email storage is not limited to some email server somewhere. Email design is decades old, stone age even, and it doesn't run out of storage until your hard drive is full. The reasons to store voice mails for later reference are the same as for emails. Just my $.02 worth.

Thanks for being so helpful, as everyone here is.

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