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Thursday, November 24th, 2022 5:03 PM

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Voicemail messages indicator always on DESPITE VOICEMAIL BEING DISABLED

We followed the instructions in

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/phone/answered-how-to-fix-the-xfinity-voicemail-messages-indicator-always-on/602da481c5375f08cd7faf98

Alas, on https://connect.xfinity.com/voice/settings/voicemailindicator

it says "This telephone number does not have access to Voicemail."

And on https://connect.xfinity.com/voice/voicemail

it says "Voicemail is not enabled for this number."

No, I do not want to enable voicemail.

I just want to turn off the indicator, on my AT&T CL84307 phone.

Yes, one can do it temporarily via the AT&T instruction book.

But then within hours Xfinity turns it right back on again!

Yes we called, and the friendly Xfinity customer service agent already "did all he could".

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2 years ago

Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to reach out! Are you wanting to turn off the indicator when someone calls and hears "This telephone number does not have access to Voicemail."? 

Visitor

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@XfinityAirelle​ Thanks for answering! As to what people hear -- that is no concern to me. In fact they should never hear that, because we answer our calls just fine currently.

What I suppose is going on is, years ago, when we had Voicemail enabled, we didn't clean out all the messages before asking you folks to disable it. And now that it is disabled, there is no way for staff or me to go back in and clean out the last messages.

So I suppose Xfinity keeps stale messages there forever. That's fine with me, but at least when one requests Voicemail be disabled, you might as well disable the indicator signal too.

Just like when we sell our car as scrap metal, we don't need to be still remined forever that it is/was low on gas.

Yes. Still showing that there is New Voicemail no matter what does indeed protect the consumer from losing precious messages, true.

But still in my case, no I don't want you to enable it so I can poke around inside and see what is going on....

In fact I'll try to send you my number so you can go have a look. Thanks!

Visitor

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@XfinityAirelle​ OK, I sent it via personal message to @Xfinity Support because I couldn't send it to @XfinityAirelle . I mentioned to pass the message to you. Thanks.

Visitor

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Never mind. I will simply call staff to have them enable Voicemail, and then I will go in and fix it myself.

Visitor

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Worked like a charm!

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