Setting up Tracfone Voicemail
Do it onlineIt’s pretty simple to setup your Tracfone voicemail online. You could do this from the phone as well but, hey, you’re reading this, so . . . . First activate your phoneFirst make sure you have activated your Tracfone and can make calls.Find your IMEI numberThen on this page, you have to enter the your phone's IMEI number and the phone number itself.To get that select the “Prepaid” menu on your phone and scroll down and select IMEI Number. Follow the Tracfone voicemail setup instructionsOnce you've entered those numbers, click "Continue", and you will be given the specific set of instructions for your particular phone. These naturally vary slightly for different handsets.
Record a greetingWhatever the individual instructions, you will have to call Tracfone voice mail via your Tracfone handset, so you will use up a few minutes or airtime to get your voice mail completely set up. You have to record your greeting. Actually, you have to record your "answer" greeting, your "busy" greeting as well as your name.Really, you should not be charged airtime for setting up the phone. After all, you're not actually making a call or even checking messages at this point. On the other hand, you do get about 10 minutes free airtime with every Tracfone you buy, so you can view that airtime as being for testing and setup. Once you activate your phone, you can spend a couple of minutes testing whether you can make calls. Then, use the rest of the time to setup your Tracfone voicemail. Not so fastThe interactive voice menu can be quite slow, eating up valuable airtime as it slowly explains your options.One problem. Even if you already know which buttons to press to retrieve, replay or delete your voicemail, you cannot press the buttons while a message is playing or the interactive voice menu is telling you your options. So, if someone leave a message by mistake that was not intended for you, you have to listen to the whole message before you can delete it. In fact, this is one of my prepaid cellphone pet peeves. So, when setting up your voicemail,Identify yourself clearly and specifically and be very clear in your greeting. Make sure to delete your old messages when you're done, so you don't have to waste airtime listening to them again. Win a Tracfone Motorola W175 bundleEnter our first Prepaid Cell Phone Writing Contest to win a Tracfone Motorola W175g bundle and a 120-minute airtime card. The contest ends on October 27, 2008.
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