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Tip:
Setting up Voicemail
When you are
The first thing you'll want to do after activating your
roaming off the
phone is to set up voicemail. See "Setting up Your
Sprint PCS Network,
Voicemail" on page 17 for instructions.
you may not receive
Message Types
notification of new
voicemail messages.
There are three types of messaging functions
It is recommended
available through your Sprint PCS Phone —
that you periodically
Voicemail, Numeric Paging and Sprint PCS
check your
Wireless Web Messaging.
voicemail by dialing
1 + area code + your
Voicemail captures calls automatically when you
Sprint PCS Phone Num-
can't answer your phone or it is turned off. The
ber.
voicemail system sends a notification to your phone
letting you know when you have new voice messages
waiting in your voicemail box.
Numeric paging allows a caller to enter a phone
number into your voicemail box instead of a voice
message. The phone number appears on your phone
as a numeric page.
Note:
Sprint PCS
Wireless Web
services may not be
available in certain
Affiliate areas.
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Managing Messaging
Sprint PCS Wireless Web Messaging
(also known as Text Messaging) allows messages to
appear as short alphanumeric messages on your
phone's display screen. You must purchase the
Sprint PCS Wireless Web Messaging Option in order
to receive text messages on your Sprint PCS Phone.
There are three ways to send a text message to a
Sprint PCS Phone:
E-mail (your phone number @
messaging.sprintpcs.com).
Through the Sprint PCS Web site –
www.sprintpcs.com. Select the wireless web
messaging link.
Using messaging software (TAP 1.5 compatible).
Managing Messaging
Note:
Because a
Sprint PCS Wireless
Web message
only displays 100
characters, e-mail
messages only
display the sender's
name and part of the
subject line.
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