Skinny getting voicemail without phone ringing

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#154485 29-Oct-2014 15:10

WHy is it that sometime you get voicemail when the phone actually never rang?

It's a pain because I have no credit to check voicemail.

Yes yes i know you can turn it off etc I'm not asking about that thanks

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#1164396 29-Oct-2014 15:19

Perhaps your phone had weak or no signal at the time the call was made to you? Get dropouts at times around the house where we are. Just in an unlucky spot between cell towers I guess.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#1164420 29-Oct-2014 15:27

umm it is possible, but this afternoon it was in CBD and i was surfing geekzone with full signal not moving around

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#1164583 29-Oct-2014 19:23

joker97: umm it is possible, but this afternoon it was in CBD and i was surfing geekzone with full signal not moving around

Your data usage must have been sucking the voice channels dry.

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#1164601 29-Oct-2014 20:02

Because calls dont come thru everytime on a mobile phone for many reasons.

If you dont want people leaving voicemails, skinny is the only telco (to my knowledge) to let you stop it recording messages, so you can put in your outgoing message to send you a text or email and then it will just disconnect the call instead of recording. Win/win IMO.

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#1164934 30-Oct-2014 11:43

coffeebaron:
joker97: umm it is possible, but this afternoon it was in CBD and i was surfing geekzone with full signal not moving around

Your data usage must have been sucking the voice channels dry.

Noticed that myself with a Skinny, "Data connection" = on and calls kept dropping out. (Even though I wasn't even using data for anything at the time
Very frustrating

"Data connection" = off - all good

Still wondering if it's the network or the handset. Might be something tweakable...