Go directly to voicemail with Slydial

I've been testing out the new free service from Slydial that lets you leave a voicemail without ringing the other guy's phone.  I called 1-267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425), entered the phone number I wanted to dial, and sure enough I was soon talking to directly to the voicemail box.

The service is free, although you do have to listen to a very short advertisement (for McDonalds dollar menu, when I called), but there are a few catches:

  • It only works for U.S. mobile numbers.
  • Doesn't work for non-mobile numbers (like, say, Microsoft's corporate number)

I also noticed that it worked from my AT&T mobile number, as well as from the landline I use at home, but for some reason it didn't work from my VOIP account.  I'm contacting my VOIP provider to see if they know why.

[update: it was a fluke.  I tried again and it works fine with my VOIP account]

Published 02 August 08 06:46 by sprague
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# l3n said on August 2, 2008 1:20 PM:

it does ring once (by law it has to) and there is and will be updated really soon. An fabulous iPhone app to use the service.

# Peter Nyonberg said on August 13, 2008 1:41 PM:

"The future, and why I'm at Microsoft."

Microsoft is the past my friend.

And you are not very good at predictions.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/01/26/more-on-why-iphone-will-fail.aspx

And BOY did it just NOT fail....

# sprague said on August 21, 2008 10:18 AM:

Thanks Peter.  

I don't believe Microsoft is the past, at least not my part of Microsoft -- that's why I'm writing this.  

I'll update my predictions in a future post, but  note that my prediction deadline has not yet passed, so stay tuned.

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