[IP] more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
Begin forwarded message:
From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 10, 2005 1:52:21 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Rick.Adams@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout
Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
The more obvious question is why are my Verizon home and wireless
voicemail boxes different?
If things were implemented properly, there would be no need for
egregious hacks like this
Rick, I know you know enough about the history of Verizon and about
how phone networks are implemented to not be asking this seriously :-)
Verizon and VZW are fundamentally separate companies with separate
infrastructure, selling to different audiences. *I* can't get Verizon
home service, for example, even though I could get a VZW phone.
VZW thinks that text messages are worth a lot of money, instead of
realizing that they are a nice way to get a little extra revenue from
an otherwise underutilized network.
They probably also still think that digital watches are a pretty cool
idea.
I suspect that making this happen involved a lot of negotiation
around how much accounting to do between the corporate entities,
and just how complicated it was to change the billing system to
manage it.
chris
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