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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

5171.0. "Pager and voicemail remote notification" by COPS01::cop-dhcp-2-215.cop.dec.com::skinnerj () Fri Mar 07 1997 09:56

I'm attempting to program my office phone (Meredian Mail Voice System) to use 
Remote Notification to page my Skytel Alpanumeric pager when I receive a 
voicemail at work.  When I had a straight numeric pager the feature worked 
fine.  Now that a call to my pager get you to a menu system with 1# to leave a 
numeric page, 2# to leave a voice message, and 3# to leave a text message, 
I've been unable, even with Skytel's assistence, to figure out how to program 
my office phone to page me when voicemail is left.

Has anyone been successful, and how did you do it.

Jay
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5171.1NCMAIL::SMITHBFri Mar 07 1997 14:241
800-759-7243  will call sky page directly and skip the menu...
5171.2No Coke, PepsiCOVERT::COVERTJohn R. CovertFri Mar 07 1997 14:301
Yeah, but if your pager is on Skytel, calling Skypage prolly won't work.
5171.3Just relabeled packaging. :-)HSOSS1::HARDMANIt's a girl! Now what?Sat Mar 08 1997 13:0416
    Nah, Skytel and Skypage get you to the same service. My customer even
    has a totally different "MCI Pager" number that connects straight to,
    you guessed it, Skytel. Now I don't have to remember their 800 number,
    just the PIN. :-)
    
    800-759-8888
    800-759-7243
    800-PAGE-MCI (or is it MCI-PAGE?)
    
    All end up at the same place. There are a couple of others, but I can't
    remember them right now. It appears that Skytel resells their service
    to other companies. I probably really screw up their billing, but hey,
    it's easier for me to remember!
    
    Harry
    
5171.4Ask George Anestis @PTOPTOJJD::DANZAKPittsburgher �Sat Mar 08 1997 15:468
    I'd ask George Anestis of IM&T at PTO.  George and I got the VOICEmail
    system here set up so that you can have it page your SKYpager when you
    have VOICEmail.  It pages you with a "99" code. 
    
    So, my SINGLE point of customer contact can be my VOICEmail.  Leave a
    message and i'll get it.  Tho I do leave other numbers for customers
    (i.e. my car phone and Email) most like the one-stop shopping approach
    to finding their techie.
5171.5thanks!COPS01::cop-dhcp-2-215.cop.dec.com::skinnerjMon Mar 10 1997 10:057
Thanks.

When you set up remote notification in a Meridian Voice Messaging system, you 
do give it the 800-Sky-Page (800-759-7243) number for Skytel, and indicate 
that its a type 5 - paging service, when the menu prompts you.

Jay