a very nice man wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 3:45pm:


It looks like you hadn't fully read either of my previous two posts, so I'll thank you not to suggest I was posting poor or incomplete information.

I had also mentioned the other allocated number twice (and again while cross-posting), and this can obviously be called from the phone itself, wherever it is located.

andy9 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 12:11pm:


Using Orange you speeddial 1 which dials +447973100123
In O2 you use 901 OR 07819******

Both are pass protected.

If you use the allocated O2 number, then both can be called from any phone, anywhere, circumstances and rules permitted
Both allow retrieval and deletion from a non home network number.

Both take messages.

Yet O2 does not operate in that similar way to Orange voicemail?

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andy9 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 5:34pm:

andy9 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 3:50pm:


As you have just shown. You, along with the rest of us mortals, don't always have every bit of info to hand, experience to write about, or full answer to offer. That is why we are here together to fill in the slots of missing information.
Sometimes a better answer comes up after a supposition or reply has been written. I found that bit about 1750 on a different page while doing more research. Did you find it? As you didn't share it I assume not.  Does that make my research better than yours? No! It just means I spent my voluntary time, as you do, looking through different sites to find the necessary info, and found something you hadn't yet come across.
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a very nice man wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 9:31am:

andy9 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 12:11pm:


Without knowing the original phone that is being used by Leeuk, this suggestion was offered as perhaps the easiest path to finding the number. It worked for me, there is a chance it could work for someone else. This site is about sharing info and the experience of finding it.

And as you have stated, several times now, there is an allocated number that can be used. So the O2 voicemail number for dialling from an O2 phone is not just 901, it is also 07819******, and this is accessible via dialthrough numbers. It was your phrase I directly quoted, without malice. It was your determination of phrase, the number is, rather than the numbers include, that set me to amend it.

And to be honest, we could both argue this and other points for many pages.  So I'm happy to acknowledge that both you and I are not perfect (although perhaps more perfect than others ), and that we may have both written something that had a minor flaw, that the other picked up on. Heck, who does like to be corrected?


Of course 901 can be used from abroad. Most of the short number codes for most networks will work outside of the UK. They are a convenient number. For those who haven't found an alternative, and convenient for the company to charge you for their ease of use.

LeeUK
Obviously you have the answers provided by andy9  and others, but just perhaps there is a bit on your that might help.

From an online Nokia manual
http://www.endusersupport.nokia.com/phones/6230/en/easyguide_ok.html
Info numbers and service numbers 
Your service provider may have included information numbers or service numbers in your SIM card.

Press Menu and select Contacts and Info numbers or Service numbers. Scroll through a category to an information number, or to a service number, and press  to call the number.
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Or try 0800 005005. This number was taken from the verified database and is listed as Cutomer Care. Doesn't say PayG or contract. Perhaps they can give you the right number to call to get your individual voicemail number.
Remember to post it here if they do.

LeeUK
At the top of this page you should find a posting with a highlighted bit about 1750.
This was found on another page to the 1780 info.
Have you tried calling 1750?

It is under your post that 1780 is dead.

a very nice man wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 6:48pm:


but not like this

a very nice man wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 9:31am:

... which was incorrect - on O2 unlike Orange you do not, as imagined, dial the general VM number, then enter your own number then a PIN

and this imagination was posted when I had already given more specific details which you first ignored, then contested **, then spent time studying the O2 website to come up with the same info, namely about there being a dedicated VM number per phone, now at the top of the first quoted post as if you knew it all the time

** "andy9 said "The O2 voicemail number for dialling from an O2 phone is 901"
No longer the only answer "

- which was totally untrue when written, viz I'd mentioned the dedicated VM number per account, and that is why I objected to being accused of providing duff or incomplete information

I'll willingly provide helpful information on this site, but not indulge in this ludicrous wise-after-the-event one-upmanship