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BT Answer 1571 and separate answering machine
antispam246
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in Phones & TV
We've always had an answering machine built in with our home phones, it worked fine, when someone left a message you would hear them leaving the message (live) through the machines speaker, so you could easily decide if you wanted to answer it or not, lol.
However we recently got BT answer 1571, with this service you have to ring to hear the messages, so when someone leaves a message you can no longer hear them leaving it. Now I want the old system back in a nutshell. From reading about it appears the only viable way to do this is cancel the 1571 service, is this correct?
Is there no way to hear messages live through my home phone/answering service with 1571 service enabled?
However we recently got BT answer 1571, with this service you have to ring to hear the messages, so when someone leaves a message you can no longer hear them leaving it. Now I want the old system back in a nutshell. From reading about it appears the only viable way to do this is cancel the 1571 service, is this correct?
Is there no way to hear messages live through my home phone/answering service with 1571 service enabled?
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You will have to cancel your 1571 service:T and revert back to your answer machine. As far as I know there is no way to listen to 1571 recordings as they come in.
The people who ring you may be pleased if you do because it also kicks in when you are on a call so the caller has to pay instead of hearing engaged tone.0 -
Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0
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Many thanks, on hold right now to cancel this piece of crap.0
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