Comments on: No one uses voicemail in India and the concept of missed calls http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/ Thoughts about people, technology and running a company Tue, 15 May 2012 11:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vasuchiyertra http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-11352 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:14:41 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-11352 I agree with Gautham. I have always wondered about answering machines and even if i did get one and install it, i highly doubt that anyone would know what it was. I can imagine my older relatives panicking.
I had actually activated voicemail on my vodafone a while back and even though a few friends left messages i could not check them out because the voicemail service was not working properly. Shows that even if the people are willing to try it, the telecom industry’s inefficiency will prevent it.

]]> By: MyMobiFlo http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-10778 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:32:03 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-10778 Arguments definitely have merits however there are contrary views:

You can always send a SMS instead of a voicemail – it takes longer to type an SMS than speak (unless you are one of those quick typers…I hate the keyboard personally, especially if not querty)

SMS is less intrusive, people can respond if and when they want to. Or not respond – MobiFlo has a service that is also not obtrusive and in fact does not even need to beep…when you receive an SMS your phone beeps…at the least one can consider this intrusive

When people make a call, they want to talk to you directly – they can if you chose to with certain services out there currently (ring and if no answer goes to voicemail)

]]> By: Nishchal http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-543 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:59:49 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-543 May be I am pretty late to respond, but, just came across this page. It’s a great observation. But the question we must ask is then what the user exactly wants?

]]> By: Darlene http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-542 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:27:03 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-542 Mor wrote:
>Also related – I called a friend last night (in the US!) and her voicemail said >something like “don’t leave a message – I’ll see your missed call”. Of course I had >to leave a message just for spite.

I love this! I hate listening to voicemails so I think I’ll change my message to this as well. I find only 10% of voicemails to be useful. Usually, I miss calls because I’m intentionally not taking the call (i.e. I’m in an environment where it would not be socially acceptable), and it does no good for the person to leave me a voicemail since I’m not going to call them back anyway. SMS rocks.

]]> By: Rajiv Renganathan http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-541 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:57:20 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-541 Another popular usage of missed calls while in office, is to call back from the landline which the employer pays for and hence save money for the caller. The audience for whom one might want to save money would be small since it would only close family and friends. However, the more close, the longer the call.

So may be you will have watch out the bills of your Delhi office :)

]]> By: Gautam Ghosh http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-540 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:26:31 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-540 Hi Rashmi,

The other reason why voice mail has not caught on in India, is that we don’t have a history of answering machines. By the time landlines started taking off, the mobile revolution was upon us.

Hence the comfort with interacting with a machine to leave a message never set in. That’s the reason why voice mail also never took off.

regards
gautam

]]> By: Amit Ranjan http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-539 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:14:07 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-539 Check this out about missed calls in India. Even the CEO of airtel does it

http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=273516

]]> By: Dhiraj Jain http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-538 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:50:45 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-538 Here I have “Missed Call Alerts”. If someone calls me and if I am out of reach, my network provider sends me an SMS – +919890793853 tried calling you 1 times at 3.00 AM.
So I get to know who has called me and if i think its important I can easily call him up.
Missed call Alerts and SMS together, are serving the same purpose of Voice Mail and it is cheaper too.

Dhiraj Jain
Call me (+919890793853) to be a part of Animal Right Activities in Pune.

]]> By: Mor http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-537 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:34:48 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-537 My winter break also got me thinking about mobile usage in other developing countries. Based on what I saw, I would imagine nobody uses voicemail in Ecuador, either.

Also related – I called a friend last night (in the US!) and her voicemail said something like “don’t leave a message – I’ll see your missed call”. Of course I had to leave a message just for spite.

]]> By: Ami http://rashmisinha.com/2007/01/09/no-one-uses-voicemail-in-india-and-the-concept-of-missed-calls-2/#comment-536 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:57:24 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=253#comment-536 Funny obeservations…..but its so true!….but whatever works!

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