So I have been reading the O2 website and it turns out they launched voicemail 20 years ago! Wowzer!
When I first started in the Mobile Industry, my first and second jobs were working closely with Voicemail – but that was 11 years ago! I feel so young all of a sudden!
I’ll let O2 take up the story:
Voicemail’s one of our most popular services and has been there for all our customers ever since 1989. Business customers describe it as the most important service for them, while consumer customers rank it second behind text messaging.
To celebrate voicemail’s 20th birthday, here are a few facts and figures you may not have realised:
- Over 11 million O2 customers have voicemail
- 1 in 5 calls to an O2 customer are diverted to voicemail
- More than 2 million voicemail messages are left every day
With those numbers, it’s fair to say that if you’ve used a mobile in the UK you may well have used our voicemail service, either by leaving a message or using it yourself! You may also have seen voicemail’s latest evolution, Visual Voicemail, on the iPhone.
Of course, we’ve been bringing new useful features to voicemail over the years. We’re doing it right now in fact – we’re changing the system that runs our voicemail to a brand new one to help us keep going in the future. Don’t worry though, you won’t notice any difference and it’ll be a seamless transfer from our current system to the new one.
Wonder what features are in that new system – could it be an all-IP converged system, capable of placing the messages across a number of different mediums seamlessly? I wouldn’t be surprised. No really, I wouldn’t. Honestly. Not all. Honest.
[Via: DNC.o2.co.uk]