Quote Originally Posted by Jimaz View Post
Why did my cell phone provider give me a phone that cheerfully invites callers to leave voice mail yet:
  1. doesn't allow me to receive voice mail
  2. doesn't indicate that the messages even exist [[or allow me to detect their existence)
  3. doesn't even indicate that the feature itself exists

?!

Ultimately they had to enable the receive feature from their end—after 13 messages had gone ignored.

Is it some kind of sophomoric telecom industry prank?

It's like mounting a bottomless suggestion box over a wastebasket!
You didn't go with "The Jitterbug" did you?