What's the Beeping Big Deal

In early August, David Pogue in the New York Times began a campaign, Take Back the Beep, to have phone companies cut back or eliminate many of the instructions that are played when leaving or listening to your voicemail. Specifically he raises the point that consumers don’t want or need to hear all the instructions abut how to leave a message, listen to their messages, reply, etc.    He’s probably right. When voicemail was introduced decades ago, detailed instructions we... [More]