While we wait for all the carriers to get on board with nixing their endless, unhelpful voicemail pre-beep messages, we’ve already got instructions from Sprint on how to disable it for your own particular voicemail box on that network.
It’s pretty easy:
- Call your voicemail
- At the menu, press 3 for personal options
- Press 2 for greeting
- Press 1 to change the greeting
- To enable / disable the instructions, press 3
Trust us, we did some serious searching for similar instructions on the other major carriers, but had no luck. If you know of anything, let us know!
Update: Thanks to some helpful comments we’ve got instructions for AT&T and Verizon for lopping off bits of the message, and, in Verizon’s case, speeding up the talking. Check ‘em out after the break. Consider yourselves upgraded to orange, guys!
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