HI Craig.
I’m not sure if you can’t pay your phone bill, you have still money left to pay for such a service. The idea sounds good though.
Tommy

that was where the idea came from, but it isn't necessarily key reason for the service :-)

think about it, if you can't access your VM, then neither can a web based front end. Unless it was run by the cell carrier, this 3rd party service you propose would have to dial out on line (costs $$, LD etc), and make the right touch tones to get, digitize, and store your voicemail. So this can't be a free service - how much would people be willing to pay to go through a clunky and slow web interface to get something so easily done by VM menu? Oh, and if the carrier offered this service, you can get that you wouldn't be able to log in to read your messages, if you had a zero balance on your account...

There was a startup in Seattle doing something similar. I tried it for a while but as good as the idea sounded, I ended up ditching it after a few weeks. Just not enough value for me. Cool idea, though, lots of room for competitors in this market.

Don't give up. I think there is a role for a website that stores personal audio files recorded from the telephone. You phone the number and your voice message is stored on the site. You decide who can access it.

I think it would be nice for people who travel a lot or who have loved ones far away, especially for parents and kids. The kids could hear their Dad or Mum's voice any time they want to regardless of the time zone difference.

Think of people who are in places where phone access is difficult. For example, troops serving overseas.

I would re-cast this as a phone-in audio archive rather than personal voice mail - if that makes sense.

there was Nortel voice mail (octel did it too) that would e-mail your voicemail to you, of course, not a very good idea to require headphones to listen to it at work.

i guess it a good idea...but some sense of implementation problems...lik u will have to give a chunk of revenue to the phone companies

Good idea!

Nope

Been attempted with bad results.
Just call your voice mail....

]V[oogy

Has it? Can you give some references and more info?

nifty idea .. a similar service already exists: <a href="http://youmail.com/">YouMail</A>. You set your phone up to redirect unanswered/busy calls to their number, instead of your carrier's voicemail number. Then, you can listen and manage the messages through their web interface. They'll also email you .wav files of your messages if you want. And you can still access messages through your cell phone, but again, you dial youmail's access number instead of your carrier's.

thanks larcher. http://www.spinvox.com do a voicemail to txt - i hadn't seen youmail.com

i guess mine is a combination of the two.

similar idea had been around but havent heard any successful one..
Gudluck!