Can you turn off the voice-mail function ?

[daveza]

I don't check voice-messages, I don't want voice-messages.

My answering message is ' do not leave a voice message, sms if you want to send a message ' - but people still leave voice messages !

Is there a way to turn off the option of leaving a voice-message ?

 

[encrypted]

Yeh, easiest is just to phone them.. I believe it's possible form the menu, but phone works wonders, they can even adjust the amount of time it rings before voice-mail.

 

[Willy Strong]

Turn off call forwarding on your phone.

 

[isie]

Turn off call forwarding on your phone.

+1 turn of call forwarding / diverts

 

[daveza]

+1 turn of call forwarding / diverts

But would I still be able to have a message for callers ?

 

[deweyzeph]

But would I still be able to have a message for callers ?

No, you can't have your cake and eat it!

 

[isie]

But would I still be able to have a message for callers ?

cake eat much?

Dont know if this is still available (or any other sp's), but MTN had voice mail lite - on prepaid basically the caller gets a message that they don’t leave a message and to confirm their number and a sms gets sent to you with the caller phone number

 

[daveza]

No, you can't have your cake and eat it!

So a message saying ' please send an sms if it's urgent ' is not do-able...

If my voice mail is never emptied will that stop anyone from adding yet more ?

 

[Willy Strong]

Its not do-able.

If your Voicemail is full the caller gets a message saying they can't leave a Voicemail as its full.

 

[koeksGHT]

+1 call diverts off.

Just rings until they put down

 

[daveza]

If your Voicemail is full the caller gets a message saying they can't leave a Voicemail as its full.

Thanks, then in that case they can't leave a message so can either sms as per my answering message or just go away

 

[biometrics]

Messages are auto deleted after a number of days, aren't they?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Can't you maybe get an app to do this? Turn off voicemail and activate the app to answer after x amount of rings. Obviously it wouldn't help if your phone was off.

 

[daveza]

Messages are auto deleted after a number of days, aren't they?

Seems I can't win

I'm surprised though, I thought this would be a sought-after function.

 

[riscbroker]

Check for call filtering apps/software for your model 'phone - I had an app a while back for a Nokia Navigator with an option to reject all/specified numbers with a message of your choice. It doesn't even ring, you can just interrogate the log if you're interested.