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If you ask most iPhone owners in the US about AT&T's service, you are more than likely to get a negative response. Although you'll probably hear praise for Apple's iconic device. Now it seems like AT&T is going to try and add some more little features in an attempt to please dissatisfied customers.
Just like the Visual Voicemail feature, these changes may require AT&T to tailor its network for change.
Two features have been talked about that may actually appear before year's end:
- Overage Alerts: A proposed new setting under the iPhone's "Phone" preferences would
allow users to customize a push notification -- in the form of a badge,
message, or sound -- to be issued when they're in danger of exceeding
their monthly anytime minutes.
- New Voicemail Options: A new "Voicemail" setting, also proposed as an addition to the
touch-screen handset's "Phone" preferences, would provide a means for
users to disable the custom Voicemail greeting -- as well as AT&T's
standard Voicemail introduction -- heard by other users. Similarly, the same feature would also make it possible for users to
automatically bypass Voicemail greetings, AT&T's standard
introduction, and other automated instructions when placing calls to
other AT&T customers.
This could be another collaborative effort between Apple and AT&T, to battle all the negative comments and feedback about AT&T's service. While this is mainly a step to better customer satisfaction, it can also pave the way for more additional carrier-specific features.
Loup407
September 09, 2009 at 8:22pm
I suspect it's not a coincidence that AT&T is pulling out new "features" at a time when most customers (at least here in Colorado) have impaired connectivity and minimal ability to complete a simple call. I guess they believe we'll be so dazzled by these new features we'll forget we can't make a freaking phone call.
