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more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:04:57 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak () dimebank com> Date: June 10, 2005 1:52:21 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: Rick.Adams () Cello NetSubject: Re: [IP] more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
The more obvious question is why are my Verizon home and wireless voicemail boxes different? If things were implemented properly, there would be no need for egregious hacks like this
Rick, I know you know enough about the history of Verizon and about how phone networks are implemented to not be asking this seriously :-) Verizon and VZW are fundamentally separate companies with separate infrastructure, selling to different audiences. *I* can't get Verizon home service, for example, even though I could get a VZW phone. VZW thinks that text messages are worth a lot of money, instead of realizing that they are a nice way to get a little extra revenue from an otherwise underutilized network.They probably also still think that digital watches are a pretty cool idea.
I suspect that making this happen involved a lot of negotiation around how much accounting to do between the corporate entities, and just how complicated it was to change the billing system to manage it. chris ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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