AT&T launches smartphone voicemail-viewer for U-verse residential customers

By on Oct 1, 2010 at 11:22 AM
General October 1, 2010

Today, AT&T announced the launch of the AT&T Voicemail Viewer application for U-verse smartphones users. As AT&T explains, “Much like an email inbox, the Voicemail Viewer app lists your home voicemail messages and allows you to choose the order in which you wish to listen to them. The app also provides a notification when a new voicemail arrives on your home phone, plus the ability to delete voicemails remotely.” The press release does not specify which smartphone platforms will be supported; navigating to att.com/vmviewer and entering a phone number — as instructed in the press release — results in a 404 error. Pristine. Anyway, it sounds like pretty a cool service for residential U-verse subscribers, thoughts?

UPDATE: AT&T has provided an alternate link for those interested in looking at the service:
https://www.um.att.com/vmviewer
. The application currently supports BlackBerry and iOS devices.

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  • The Late Ted Kennedy

    MORE JUNK FOR THE MOST TERRIBLE NETWORK IN AMERICA……AT&CRAP

  • IanCaz

    I’m not a big AT&T Wireless fan, but I do LOVE my U-Verse! I’m just not sure why they’re snubbing all of their Android users with this iOS/BB apps they keep releasing. It’s unfortunate.

    • Eric

      That is what I was going to say. Why no love for Android?

    • Eric

      I agree with you on the other point: I enjoy my AT&T U-Verse service, but would want absolutely nothing to do with AT&T Wireless.

  • Craig

    Meh…for as much crap as Comcast gets in the tech press..they’ve had this for a while now. If you’re a triple-bypass (oops..I mean Triple Play) subscriber, you can do this, see your missed calls, plus get your email and schedule your DVR all from the iPhone app.

    Yawns…

    • Elaine Gonzalez

      Thanks Craig,

      Looks like you cared enough to comment. Do us a favor next time and pass up a story if you have nothing good to say. Figues an Apple fanboy would say nothing constructive.

      • Craig

        Anything to help :)

        Fanboy? Seriously…if my post is the criteria for being a fanboy, you’ve got a lot of work to do googling for every post on the Internet with the iPhone in it. My post was more directed at AT&T than anything else.

        Personally, and to actually make sense for a minute…I love the U-Verse way of doing things, with little intelligent IP-Multicast boxes in your home and the whole-house DVR features. The only thing I see wrong with AT&T’s approach is the FTTN model…U-Verse is basically just better DSL for most users…being that most are not getting FTTH, though AT&T markets it as “fiber”. It is, but only for the lucky few right now.

        I happen to be RIGHT outside a AT&T area, can’t get U-Verse and my old LEC, Verizon sold their assets to Frontier…so I’m sure I’ll never get FTTH where I live now. That leaves Comcast…I’m no fan of their business practices, but if I want a fast connection…they are MY only choice. This speaks more to the state of US broadband than anything else…

        But, long story short…since I’m stuck on Comcast…I just thought I’d throw the info that they actually had an app that did what this thing does, and has for quite a while now. If you didn’t like my tone..so be it…it’s the Internet…you can’t please everybody with every post.

      • stranger

        You need to tighten up your posts. Who the f is going to read a short story??

      • Rob

        if you learn to read, don’t make fun of someone who knows what they are talking about and puts people (like you) in their place

  • Prem tard

    Correction for craig,
    U-verse is a fiber system. FTTN is fiber to the node, this mean that the fiber optic ends at the cross connect box in the neighbor hood and from there it transfers into the existing copper for the remanding distance to the customer premise (usually less than 3,000 feet). The other form of Uverse is called FTTP and that’s when the fiberoptic goes all the way to the customers premise (house). On the other band dsl is pushed through nothin but copper.

    In conclusion, Uverse is a literally light years past dsl. As far as features, uverse already has more features than anything out there and since it’s 100% ip service there is no limit to the automatic upgrades customers can get.

  • djkh

    Well..any reason why samsung started the trend with apps on their tv screens!

  • Turk54

    FYI to all interested. The app is also supposed to work for AT&T’s Business Unified Messaging (UM) customers, which it doesn’t. The app’s help screens tell you to send an email for customer service, but the email address comes back as undeliverable. If you call UM Customer Service, they haven’t heard of this and can not help. What a mess!

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