Retrieving Voice Mail abroad - Help me :)

Old Jun 10th, 2016, 12:15 PM
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Retrieving Voice Mail abroad - Help me :)

Every trip I take out of the country I am unable to retrieve my voice mails on my ATT Iphone until I return to the US. Is there a service, app, product out there that can email the voice mail to my email account and allow me to listen while on a wifi network? Inevitably I receive a very important vmail and I am unaware until 2+ weeks later.

In the past I have bought a skype number - but no one ever calls it - and leaves voice mails on my US number.
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Old Jun 10th, 2016, 12:24 PM
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Last year I tried ATT Global and the voice mail was disabled while I was in Montreal.
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Old Jun 10th, 2016, 12:29 PM
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I suggest you just call your voicemail when you want to check it. If you can call the US on your phone, you must be able to call your voicemail. If you can't call the US and it's important to you, find a phone service with that capability to use when you travel. There are any number of services and sim cards you can use, many available for short-term use.
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Old Jun 10th, 2016, 01:06 PM
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Our phone and voice mail is with Comcast. We can sign in to our account and read our voice mails.
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Old Jun 10th, 2016, 01:28 PM
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I can always use Skype to call the US, but I'm not sure about calling my voice mail on my mobile, how do you do that on an iPhone?
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Old Jun 10th, 2016, 01:40 PM
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Wow! I just tested calling my mobile from another phone and I could listen to my voice mail! Thanks!!! Great and easy solution!!
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Old Jun 11th, 2016, 04:54 PM
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Hmm, our house landline is through our cable company, so whenever I pull up emails abroad, I can also access phone messages WITHOUT calling the number from which they can also be retrieved. I dont understand why you can't access yours. We use TMobile for our mobile phones, and Cablevision, our local provider, for our TV, computer & landline. MiamiBeachMomma, so, from any mobile phone you have, you dial the number that your landline provider gave you from which to retrieve messages.
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Old Jun 11th, 2016, 05:18 PM
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That's what I said, or meant. Have a cell phone that she can use outside the US to call her home landline voicemail. I believe she got the message, didn't you MBM? But unless using an online calling service or an app, it'll have to be phone with which she can call the US, hers or another (or a sim) for the purpose.
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Inevitably I receive a very important vmail and I am unaware until 2+ weeks later

The simple work-around* is to forward all calls to your Google voice number because you get transcriptions of voicemails and you can make/receive calls over WiFi anywhere in the world. You do have a Google voice number, don't you?



*I lied. The SIMPLEST work-around is changing your voicemail greeting and giving a number where you can be reached. But I can understand why someone might not want to do that.
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Old Jun 13th, 2016, 06:40 PM
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I don't have a google voice number....ill check that out. I have bought a Skype number on past trips that lasts 3 months, but I dont believe I can forward my mobile phone calls to it.
Going to research it now..

Also...I'm not talking about my landline voice mail. I'm talking about my mobile. When I leave the country it doesn't work. It's disabled.
It's att on an iPhone6.
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Old Jun 13th, 2016, 07:16 PM
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So "disabled" means people can leave messages but you can't get them? Even if you call from another phone to your voicemail? I'm completely ignorant of how iPhones work and I understand that your iPhone won't work outside the country without an international plan, but that would be quite a downside if there was no way to call your voicemail from a 2nd phone bought for the purpose of using locally abroad and to call home.
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Old Jun 14th, 2016, 04:41 AM
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Visual voicemail is disabled. So you can't see any voicemail activity directly on the phone. But be never tried calling it - I'm sure that will work!

But I am looking at the google voice number option as well.

I just am not sure how the rates work.

If someone calls my US number and its forwarded to my US Google number and then it gets transcribed to text and emailed to me - do I incur charges? It seems the answer is no, but not sure....
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The answer is no. Your Google voice number is a US number and gets billed as such. You can make calls using a WiFi signal to a US number and it doesn't cost you anything. You can even send/receive SMS to US numbers with it (you'll need to install the Google hangouts app).

I use it to call back to the US when I am traveling. Works great. The voicemail transcription isn't 100% but you can also listen to the message.
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I'm back and goole voice was perfect!!! I was not only able to get my voice mails - I didnt have to worry about listening to the audio since they were transcribed! Im thinking about just leaving that feature turned on at home!!!
Thanks sparkchaser
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Glad to hear it worked for you.
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