On 2009-07-03 13:18:25 +0100, Theo Markettos
<theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> said:

> Jon <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote:
>> Worth explaining a bit about how voicemail works - basically it's a call
>> divert. When you divert a call your handset pays for the diverted leg of
>> the call, but when you're in the UK you don't get charged for diverting
>> to voicemail.
>
> How does that work if your handset is switched off? Is the divert
> registered at whatever (foreign) network the handset was last seen at?
> Or does voicemail when the handset is on (using the handset's settings of
> wait-N-rings, divert-straightaway, whatever) differ from when it is off?
> Is this state then stored in the network somewhere - at your network, or at
> the foreign network? If it's at your network, why can't it just divert
> without an international round-trip?
>
> Theo

As usual with the mobile telcos, the charges are surrounded in mystery.
Some do, some don't. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Am I going to
regret this call? Probably.


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