You try to call your best friend to cancel dinner tonight, but no one answers and you have to listen to three little girls do an interesting rendition of a nursery rhyme. There is a way to bypass these annoying answering machine messages and voice mails and go straight to your recording or reach an operator of a business line.
Instructions
1. Dial the desired phone number from any cell phone or land line that is not a rotary dial phone. The steps given below will not work from a rotary dial phone.
2. Be able to hear clearly and that your message will be received clearly. Try to avoid being surrounded by loud or distracting noises, and try not to use your cell phone while driving. If you must call while driving, try pulling over to the side of the road until you've completed the call.
3. Listen for the ringing to end and the voice mail message or answering machine message to begin its message. Once the greeting has started, wait a couple of seconds to ensure that instruction is not being given at the beginning of the message on bypass the greeting.
4. Follow these prompts to skip cell phone voice mail: Press "0" if you are calling an AT&T cell phone subscriber. Press "1" for a Sprint subscriber. Press the asterisk key * for Verizon subscribers. Press the number key (#) for T-Mobile subscribers. Press the asterisk key * for Cingular subscribers. If you don't know the provider, either pressing the asterisk or the number key usually work.
5. Use these prompts to skip land line or home answering machine messages: Press the asterisk * or number # key to forgo the message and began your recording. Which symbol you use will depend on the type of machine being used by the individual on the receiving end of your call.
6. Hit "0" during the greeting of a business call to skip the answering machine message and to be connected to an operator or receptionist at the company you are dialing.
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