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New Voicemail Message Alerts
When you receive a new voicemail, your phone alerts you and prompts you to call your voicemail.
To call your voicemail from the notification screen:
Press
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| receive notification of new voicemail messages. It is |
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| recommended that you periodically check your voicemail by |
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| dialing 1 + area code + your wireless phone number. When |
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| your voicemail answers, press (*) and enter your passcode. |
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| You may be charged roaming rates when you access |
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| voicemail while roaming off the home network. |
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| Your phone accepts messages even when it is turned off, |
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| but you can receive voicemail message alerts only when |
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| your phone is turned on and you are in a wireless service |
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Retrieving Your Voicemail Messages
You can review your messages directly from your wireless phone or from any other
Using One-Touch Message Access
Press and hold . (Your phone will dial your voicemail box.)
Using the Menu Keys on Your Phone to Access Your Messages
1.Press > Messages > Voicemail.
2.Press
to listen to your messages.
Note | You are charged for airtime minutes when you are |
| accessing your voicemail from your wireless phone. |
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Using Another Phone to Access Messages
1.Dial your wireless phone number.
2.When your voicemail answers, press the star key (*).
3.Enter your passcode.
Tip | When you call into voicemail, you first hear the header |
| information (date, time, and sender information) for the |
| message. To skip directly to the message, press 4 during |
| the header. |
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Wireless Service |
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