Hi All,

Not sure what forum to put this in...

I have heard discussion of people using off-shore "real person" answering services to answer their NZ mobile phones... i.e. a real person answers if you can't or don't and sends the callers short message (name and contact details) by sms/text message to your mobile.

Does anyone have any experience of using such a service?  I don't get a lot of work messages so I would prefer a "pay per message" type service instead of a monthly charge. Calling voicemail is always time-consuming (and I am always impressed when a real person answers my calls and takes a message).  From the discussion I heard, the service was almost as cost-efficient as calling mobile voicemail (i.e. around 20c per message). 

My mobile is on account with Vodafone NZ. 

I'd be interested to hear what services people have come across.

Cheers