Comments on: Should mobile operators give up on voicemail?

By: Gav Heppinstall

Gav Heppinstall — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:23:39 +0000

I very rarely have the need for voice mail. Often the only use it gets is abandonded sales calls. Get rid, no one will notice

By: Makenzie Hammond

Makenzie Hammond — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:54:42 +0000

Should mobile operators give up on voicemail? – GigaOm http://t.co/7NKz4yHS

By: Makenzie Hammond

Makenzie Hammond — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:48:53 +0000

Should mobile operators give up on voicemail? – GigaOm http://t.co/7NKz4yHS

By: Makenzie Hammond

Makenzie Hammond — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:46:08 +0000

http://t.co/7NKz4yHS Should mobile operators give up on voicemail? – GigaOm

By: Heartland Technology

Heartland Technology — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:40:02 +0000

Should #mobile operators give up on voicemail and use independent voicemail providers instead? http://t.co/Qzpn8Rz0

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:57:52 +0000

Hi Stuart, actually one of the cool things about the new visual voicemail solutions like YouMail is that they’re both cloud and on-device. It downloads a digital file to your phone but keeps a copy on its servers so you can access it online and through e-mail.

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:05:26 +0000

HI Alex, Thanks for commenting. Bonus when we have source commenting both within and outside the story!

By: Alex Quilici

Alex Quilici — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:58:14 +0000

Actually, we download vs. stream for several reasons. One is we can pre-download to the device before notifying the user, which gives good experiences even on bad data connections. Two, on average, voicemails are actually played 1.8+ times each, so it’s more economical from a data perspective vs. streaming twice. Three, people bounce around the voicemails when they play them – so if you’re going to buffer to let people go back easily, you might as well have downloaded it to the device. And finally, most people delete most voicemails, so it’s only on the device for a relatively short period of time.

By: Alex Quilici

Alex Quilici — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:54:50 +0000

Any device access is really important. Since the voicemails for YouMail are stored in the cloud, users can pick them up in a myriad of ways. So we have users with YouMail on their BB, also picking up their voicemail through YouMail on their iPad, and getting them on their PC through the youmail.com website. It’s all about whatever is most convenient at the time.

By: Leo Johnston

Leo Johnston — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:22:29 +0000

http://t.co/dMsXqEKJ Should mobile operators give up on voicemail? – GigaOm