more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak () dimebank com>
Date: June 10, 2005 1:52:21 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Rick.Adams () Cello Net
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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