any equipment with voicemail indicator?

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jan 07, 2006 Posts: 11

Hi,

Does Vonage have any equipment with voicemail indicator, like for example cell phones that indicate voice mail is waiting?

I asked the Vonage person on the phone and they said there's no such thing, you always have to call into the voicemail system. I just think that's quite backwards, I have to be using my phone and dialing into a system just to find out if there are messages.

Ricardo

Posts: 476 · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject:

On the RTP300 the phone light blinks slowly if there's a voicemail. You also get a stutter in the dial tone when you pick up a receiver if there's voicemail waiting. I think I've read on here about people with phone systems that have a flashing light when there's voicemail.

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject:

besides the blinking light on the rtp300 and wrtp54g, this is a phone feature. Vonage supports it but you need a phone that has it.

Posts: 46 · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

That's bad info from the rep. The Vtech wireless phones I have not only have a flashing light on the base unit, each phone also blinks "Message Waiting" on the display. And it's within a few seconds of the message being left. Very nice.

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 20

My cell phone receives an email when someone leaves a voice mail on my Vonage account.

Also my uniden home phones have blinking red lights when I have a Vonage voice mail.

Jim

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 06, 2006 Posts: 1

Burch64 wrote:

My cell phone receives an email when someone leaves a voice mail on my Vonage account.

Also my uniden home phones have blinking red lights when I have a Vonage voice mail.

Jim

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Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jan 07, 2006 Posts: 11

Thanks for the tips, folks.

So, what phone units are you using that working voice mail indicators? You mentioned Uniden, which model #?

And someone mentioned the Vtech also has working red light for voice mail, is that the setup that comes with the Voip built-in? Are there other model #s that have a voice mail red light which works with Vonage?

On a side note, I have read a lot of complaints on the forum about voice mail problems. How many of you are experiencing frequent problems, either with voicemail, or regular usage of the service?

Thanks
Ricardo

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 20

Uniden DCT646

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jan 07, 2006 Posts: 11

Burch64 wrote:

Uniden DCT646

Great. These units look really nice. How is their sound/voice quality? The speakerphone, is it also good quality?

Thanks
Ricardo

Posts: 1424 · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:56 am Post subject:

rkleemann wrote:

On a side note, I have read a lot of complaints on the forum about voice mail problems. How many of you are experiencing frequent problems, either with voicemail, or regular usage of the service?

I don't get a lot of Vonage voice mails because I have an answering machine that picks up, typically it happens when my wife doesn't respond to call waiting.

I have not had a problem with email delivery of these messages. I do occasionally have problems with the levels of the messages as they can be difficult to hear both online or when attached to the email.