Way back a while ago, I asked Telecom to disable the voicemail viewer on my account because, frankly, it's terrible.  I was on the phone with them for an hour trying to diagnose why I was never receiving the voicemail notifications - and when they found an apparently "corrupted" notification and cleared it, I received every voicemail notification from the previous three years.  Basically, not a service I'm willing to rely on.  They dutifully disabled the stupid thing, and I found that a year later it had re-enabled itself (and, of course, stopped notifying me of voicemails).  I called them up again, and once more they disabled it.  Now, 2 months later, I find that it has again re-enabled on my account.

Can I actually turn the stupid thing off and have it stay off?  It is not a useful service to me.  And with the uselessness of it, I'm tempted simply to forward all calls to my 2talk number just so I can get voicemail with notifications that work.

 

(Also, does any telco actually treat voicemail as a real service?  Telecom's is dodgy, 2degrees deletes your mailbox every 60 days, and lord only knows that Vodafone does).