Two Week Delay Delivering Voice Mail

I turned off my cell phone today while visiting a museum. We're not big
cell phone users, about 100 minutes a month on average. When I turned
it back on a "voice mail ring" occurred. When I retrieved the message I
found 3 other messages that were dated from February 6 and 7. These
voice mail messages were delayed 17 days.

I think I figured out what happened. From February 5th to the 10th we
were in Whistler, BC, Canada. We turned the phone on a couple of
times while we were there to confirm it was roaming territory, as we
expected, but 90% of the time we left it turned off. When were returned
to the U.S. on the 10th we naturally turned the phone back on. Since
then no one has left us a message, because we always answered the
phone when someone called. Those messages that were queued up
while we were in Canada, stayed queued up until another message
needed to be delivered, which happened today.

And to answer your questions in advance... Yes we checked the phone
several times to see if any messages were waiting. There were none. Yes
we even called voice mail to see if any messages were waiting. There
were none.

I suspect that this never would have happened if we simply never turned
on the phone while we were in Canada.

Frustrating.

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rvfulltime <rvfulltime@_removeme_isp.com> wrote in
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> When I retrieved the message I
> found 3 other messages that were dated from February 6 and 7. These
> voice mail messages were delayed 17 days.
>

Hmm! Verizon IS improving service! I rebooted once and had one 3 months
old!

Larry
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:00:48 -0800, rvfulltime
<rvfulltime@_removeme_isp.com> wrote:

>I turned off my cell phone today while visiting a museum. We're not big
>cell phone users, about 100 minutes a month on average. When I turned
>it back on a "voice mail ring" occurred. When I retrieved the message I
>found 3 other messages that were dated from February 6 and 7. These
>voice mail messages were delayed 17 days.
>
>I think I figured out what happened. From February 5th to the 10th we
>were in Whistler, BC, Canada. We turned the phone on a couple of
>times while we were there to confirm it was roaming territory, as we
>expected, but 90% of the time we left it turned off. When were returned
>to the U.S. on the 10th we naturally turned the phone back on. Since
>then no one has left us a message, because we always answered the
>phone when someone called. Those messages that were queued up
>while we were in Canada, stayed queued up until another message
>needed to be delivered, which happened today.
>
>And to answer your questions in advance... Yes we checked the phone
>several times to see if any messages were waiting. There were none. Yes
>we even called voice mail to see if any messages were waiting. There
>were none.
>
>I suspect that this never would have happened if we simply never turned
>on the phone while we were in Canada.
>
>Frustrating.

I wouldn't read much into it. It happens every once in a while. I
doubt your trip to Canada had anything to do with it, since you used
it for a while after your return. I've seen it happen before and I
had not even left the county.

About once a month when I turn on my phone in the morning and there are
messages, the new message alert doesn't sound nor do I see the new message
indicator. I just check my messages every time I turn on my phone (I amost
always have messages).



"rvfulltime" <rvfulltime@_removeme_isp.com> wrote in message
news:u9vut2p4h9n8h174j9m2agdfkped44ns49@4ax.com...
>I turned off my cell phone today while visiting a museum. We're not big
> cell phone users, about 100 minutes a month on average. When I turned
> it back on a "voice mail ring" occurred. When I retrieved the message I
> found 3 other messages that were dated from February 6 and 7. These
> voice mail messages were delayed 17 days.
>
> I think I figured out what happened. From February 5th to the 10th we
> were in Whistler, BC, Canada. We turned the phone on a couple of
> times while we were there to confirm it was roaming territory, as we
> expected, but 90% of the time we left it turned off. When were returned
> to the U.S. on the 10th we naturally turned the phone back on. Since
> then no one has left us a message, because we always answered the
> phone when someone called. Those messages that were queued up
> while we were in Canada, stayed queued up until another message
> needed to be delivered, which happened today.
>
> And to answer your questions in advance... Yes we checked the phone
> several times to see if any messages were waiting. There were none. Yes
> we even called voice mail to see if any messages were waiting. There
> were none.
>
> I suspect that this never would have happened if we simply never turned
> on the phone while we were in Canada.
>
> Frustrating.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
>