Take Back the Beep: AT&T promises to make some changes, T-Mobile and Verizon slow on the uptake

Two weeks into the campaign, David Pogue has an update about Take Back the Beep .

Take Back the Beep: how to disable voicemail instructions on Sprint

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.

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