Really now, who
hasn't had a moment where they celebrated mightily after no one picked up on the fourth / fifth ring? Rather that trusting Lady Luck to lead your phone calls to
voicemail, Slydial's giving you a main line in. Said company enables any US post-paid wireless customer on any major carrier to dial someone in a similar situation and drop a message in their voicemail box without having to actually speak to them. Folks interested in taking advantage simply dial (267)-SLY-DIAL from either a landline or mobile telephone, enter in another mobile number and either listen to a short advertisement or pay up in the form of a subscription fee or $0.15 per call. Give it a go and see how it turns out.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Riley Freeman @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:41PM
telus already does this but unfortunately only between other telus subcribers
Mills @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:49PM
I know that most wireless companies have numbers already that will access the "backdoor" system on a voicemail call. usually they are local to a specific area. I use one of Alltel's backdoors (the number is 4178246245 for the Springfield, MO area). I imagine the service is simply a repository for all these local backdoor numbers. oh, and doing it yourself is free without advertisements
youngcalihottie @ Jul 24th 2008 4:21AM
that sounds exactly like what it is to me.
aquacow @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:49PM
in some cases in will connect right to the voice mail. other times the phone may ring once before going to voicemail. This is a pretty neat idea but as far I know you can already do this is most major carriers. Though it may only work if the other phone uses the same provider.
ShaneD @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:55PM
it works, & is as east as it sounds. The ad was only about 5-10 seconds too. Not bad.
matt @ Jul 23rd 2008 9:22PM
with verizon, just call your own voicemail and choose the option to leave a message. it will ask for the 10 digit phone number and will connect straight to voicemail of that number. for free.
Big Sam @ Jul 24th 2008 12:35AM
That's assuming you know who their carrier is.
PA Resident @ Jul 24th 2008 12:49AM
267 is a Philadelphia/Southeast PA area code. That's interesting...
dTondro @ Jul 24th 2008 12:57AM
Those numbers aren't correct!!!
I just tried the VZW # and person picked up!!! She lives in San Francisco... she wasn't sure why she had been getting random calls from all over the country for the past half hour... She will probably be getting a lot of bad calls now that you put her number out on the web...
Not cool man...
cromas @ Jul 24th 2008 4:02AM
Oh god, I feel absolutely terrible now. I typo'd -- the VZW number should be -6300, not -3600. Got it from the extensive list at http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/197226-1.html.
What a terrible typo =( I'm so sorry!
youngcalihottie @ Jul 24th 2008 4:19AM
those are just one of many numbers for each carrier. each voicemail server only handles a certain number of subscribers. and every server has its own phone number. for example, at&t has dozens and dozens and dozens of different voicemail pilot numbers. the one you listed only works for people in your area.
to further complicate things, most servers actually have two different phone numbers... one for depositing messages and one for retrieving them. (although you can usually retrieve messages from the deposit box by pressing star or some other key + password during the greeting).
***you need to call the correct deposit phone number for the server that holds the mailbox of the subscriber for whom you want to leave a message.*** for example, you would not be able to use that 253-709-4040 number to leave a message for a los angeles subscriber.
DougM @ Jul 24th 2008 7:36AM
I tried this, but instead of connecting me "directly" to my voice mail, my phone rang and then the call got dropped.
Razor1973 @ Jul 24th 2008 9:57AM
Major f*up! *LOL*
Ryan @ Jul 24th 2008 11:58AM
If youre leaving a VM for a sprint customer, just dial 11 before.
So, 11-555-555-5555 would drop you to the voice mail box.
Keep in mind, that is not for nextel, JUST sprint customers.
mrHiDefinition @ Jul 24th 2008 1:14PM
If you need to use this tool on the regular, you should really re-think who your calling... This is pretty funny though.
Jack @ Jul 24th 2008 4:21PM
Maybe i'm the only person who is bored enough to listen to all the menu options in my voicemail (very possible) but you can just go to the main menu in the AT&T system, and choose the "send a message" option and record your voice message and send it to a number you enter. why pay when you can have it free?
icarus @ Jul 25th 2008 4:44PM
seriously, why complicate things? if you're on VZW, it's *86 then just listen to menu prompts, it'll give you the option to send a voicemail directly yo another person without their phone ever ringing... don't bother with long numbers lists
cazual22 @ Aug 4th 2008 12:32PM
Wow, my local news aired this last night can believe they were actually on top of something before the tech blogs, I am shocked. It must have been a summer intern that pushed the story.
ethan @ Oct 7th 2008 5:09PM
cromas, you retard that is my wife's cell number. please have the post removed. she get 5+ calls a day.