Wireless Service

3A. Wireless Service: The Basics 85

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 .
Retrieving Your Voicemail Messages
You can review your messages directly from your wireless phone
or from any other touch-tone phone. To dial from your wireless
phone, either speed dial your voicemail (use one-touch message
access) or use the menu keys.

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.

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.
Note When you are roaming off the home network, you may not
receive notification of new voicemail messages. It is
recommended that you periodically check your voicemail by
dialing 1 + area code + your wireless phone number. When
your voicemail answers, press (*) and enter your passcode.
You may be charged roaming rates when you access
voicemail while roaming off the home network.
Your phone accepts messages even when it is turned off,
but you can receive voicemail message alerts only when
your phone is turned on and you are in a wireless service
area.
Note You are charged for airtime minutes when you are
accessing your voicemail from your wireless phone.
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.