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Getting Voicemail in Mexico-Warning !
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| Richard 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| I just got back from Mexico and got my Verizon bill. While I was there I saw
the little envelope on the phone saying I had a message. Saw I dialed * 86
to get the message . I tried it several time and never got it to work. When
I got the bill I noticed that each time I called attempting to get my
voicemail, I was charged $2.30 . I think that is an outrageous charge for a
call that did not even work. I called Verizon customer sevice and they said
that they could do nothing because they were "pass through" charges.She also
said voicemail will only work when connected to a Verizon tower. So I guess
I am stuck with an expensive learning experience. I am on an Americas
Choice plan. with international calling.
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| Dave Rudisill 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| >"Richard" <rick749@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I just got back from Mexico and got my Verizon bill. While I was there I saw
>the little envelope on the phone saying I had a message. Saw I dialed * 86
>to get the message . I tried it several time and never got it to work. When
>I got the bill I noticed that each time I called attempting to get my
>voicemail, I was charged $2.30 . I think that is an outrageous charge for a
>call that did not even work. I called Verizon customer sevice and they said
>that they could do nothing because they were "pass through" charges.She also
>said voicemail will only work when connected to a Verizon tower. So I guess
>I am stuck with an expensive learning experience. I am on an Americas
>Choice plan. with international calling.
>
For future trips to Mexico, you might want to get a Mexican calling card
at any pharmacy. They can be used in the ubiquitous pay phones down
there. It costs ten pesos (around 50 cents) a minute to call the US.
That's how I checked our Verizon cell phone voice mail down there.
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Dave
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| Remove This 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
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I work for the ILEC ...." stuff happens! "
> So I guess
> I am stuck with an expensive learning experience. I am on an Americas
> Choice plan.
Curious. They call it specifically pluralized as the "Americas".
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| Bert Hyman 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| spamdumpster@verizon
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> Curious. They call it specifically pluralized as the "Americas".
No. It's "America's Choice"
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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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| Justin 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| Remove This wrote on [Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:25:55 GMT]:
> Replied inline.
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Shame you have your sigdash at the top ...
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| Bert Hyman 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| nospam@insightbb.com (Justin) wrote in
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> Remove This wrote on [Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:25:55 GMT]:
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> Shame you have your sigdash at the top ...
Lots of OE users manage to do that.
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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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| Frankster 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
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"Richard" <rick749@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I just got back from Mexico and got my Verizon bill. While I was there I
>saw the little envelope on the phone saying I had a message. Saw I dialed *
>86 to get the message . I tried it several time and never got it to work.
>When I got the bill I noticed that each time I called attempting to get my
>voicemail, I was charged $2.30 . I think that is an outrageous charge for a
>call that did not even work. I called Verizon customer sevice and they said
>that they could do nothing because they were "pass through" charges.She
>also said voicemail will only work when connected to a Verizon tower. So I
>guess I am stuck with an expensive learning experience. I am on an
>Americas Choice plan. with international calling.
Well, a hard lesson maybe, but that is one way to learn. I found using my
VZW phone with International access turned on better than the local calling
cards. (calling-cards require being located at specific calling-card public
phones). Using your own costs more, but is still portable. Mexico has some
of the best International rates for VZW.
Anyway... some things never change...
- International calling is expensive
- When out of your "home" area (America!) most/all of the "*xx" numbers do
not work.
- If you dial your own phone number in its entirety, just as any other US
number you'd dial from Mexico, including country code, you can still check
your VM.
-Frank
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| Richard 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| I have international dialing. It costs me $.69 plus $.13 service charge for
a total of $. 82 per minute to call the US. I guessing when I dialed *86 it
was billed as a local call and because it had a large local charge.
> If you dial your own phone number in its entirety, just as any other US
> number you'd dial from Mexico, including country code, you can still check
> your VM.
>Well, a hard lesson maybe, but that is one way to learn. I found using my
>VZW phone with International access turned on better than the local calling
>cards. (calling-cards require being located at specific calling-card public
>phones). Using your own costs more, but is still portable. Mexico has some
of the best International rates for VZW.
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| Remove This 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| bigshame bigshame, I'll never live it down. There goes the weekend (LOL)
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I work for the ILEC ...." stuff happens! "
"Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> Remove This wrote on [Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:25:55 GMT]:
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> Shame you have your sigdash at the top ...
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| Remove This 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| thanks for the clarification.
"Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up"
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I work for the ILEC ...." stuff happens! "
"Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse.com> wrote in message
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> spamdumpster@verizon
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> @trndny01:
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> No. It's "America's Choice"
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> Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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| Frankster 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| >I have international dialing. It costs me $.69 plus $.13 service charge for
>a total of $. 82 per minute to call the US. I guessing when I dialed *86
>it was billed as a local call and because it had a large local charge.
The $0.69/min + $0.13 is a VZW charge. The $2.30 (or similar from your
previous post) is a Mexican local connect charge (one per call). Still, a
three minute call from Mexico is around $4.50. A 6 minute call would be
around $6.60. Not bad as far as International rates go.
I realize that since you didn't know about the connect charge, and you had a
bunch of connects that failed to produce the intended outcome, that this is
still hard to take. Just commenting, that's all.
-Frank
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| Richard 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| I found that lowest cost comes when you use a cell phone in the US with the
Individual LD plan which costs $3.99 a month to call a landline phone in
Mexico. The total cost is $.09 per minute. You just have to make sure you
don't go over your allowed minutes. In calling does not apply.The $3.99
charge you can start and stop with no penalties and they prorate it.
"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> The $0.69/min + $0.13 is a VZW charge. The $2.30 (or similar from your
> previous post) is a Mexican local connect charge (one per call). Still, a
> three minute call from Mexico is around $4.50. A 6 minute call would be
> around $6.60. Not bad as far as International rates go.
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> I realize that since you didn't know about the connect charge, and you had
> a bunch of connects that failed to produce the intended outcome, that this
> is still hard to take. Just commenting, that's all.
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> -Frank
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| Bob the Printer 2006-02-17, 11:48 pm |
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> I work for the ILEC ...." stuff happens! "
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> Curious. They call it specifically pluralized as the "Americas".
No, actually it's the possessive, as in "America's Choice"...
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