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Posted on Oct 22, 2008

Inactive feature when trying to get messages

We have always been able to get out messages by pushing Feature 981 and now it is saying it is inactive....

  • kwanjt Nov 21, 2008

    We have the same problem! It was working fine just up to a few days ago and since then the voicemail doesn't kick in so no one can leave any messages. Any prior messages can't be retrieved either because 981 is inactive. What can we do??

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