{"id":45244,"date":"2009-11-19T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/messaging\/deactivated_ribbit_mobile_voice_mail_system_because_it_prevented_incoming_calls_143651.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-19T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:10:00","slug":"deactivated-ribbit-mobile-voice-mail-system-because-it-prevented-incoming-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45244","title":{"rendered":"Deactivated Ribbit Mobile Voice Mail System Because it Prevented Incoming Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ribbit.com\/\">Ribbit Mobile<\/A> is a Google Voice-like service that was acquired by British Telecom. It&#8217;s service, however, is available right here in the US of A (as they say). Unlike Google Voice, Ribbit does not offer the choice of using a unique Ribbit-provided phone number or your own cell phone number.<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to get a Ribbit Mobile beta service account for testing recently and followed Ribbit&#8217;s instructions to auto-forward unanswered calls from the cell phone I use as my main voice phone to Ribbit.<\/p>\n<p>The initial tests of calling my phone, letting it ring until it went to voice mail, and leaving a voice mail all worked fine. Ribbit recorded my message and sent an email notification. The problem turned up with the first actual incoming call I received after setting up the service (a call from my daughter). My cell phone rang once and then stopped. My daughter said she heard a strange sound on her end and then ended the call. Both my phone and Ribbit logged it as a &#8220;missed call&#8221;. A second test confirmed this odd behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Ribbit provides clear instructions on how to deactivate call-forward-on-no-answer. My phone rang normally and let me pick up the call as usual after deactivating Ribbit.<\/p>\n<p>My action plan is to activate Ribbit for testing once a month until it seems to work as expected and then begin longer term testing of the service. Let&#8217;s hope this happens soon.<\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribbit Mobile is a Google Voice-like service that was acquired by British Telecom. It&#8217;s service, however, is available right here in the US of A (as they say). Unlike Google Voice, Ribbit does not offer the choice of using a unique Ribbit-provided phone number or your own cell phone number. I was fortunate enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}