UniBears: Comparing Announcement-Only Offerings

There are two ways of having a low-volume announce-only line in UniBears: subscribing to the Announcement Service or by setting rules to create an announce-only mailbox.

What	Announcement Service	Announce-only Mailbox
Description:	CNS-created announcement-only mailbox	Customer-created rule to create an announcement-only mailbox
Price	$3.37 / month	$10.22 / month (VME or UM rate)
Created by	CNS has to set the Announcement service	Customer creates the rules after CNS has set up the Voicemail Enhanced or Unified Messaging service
Name and Greeting	customer can record name/greeting and change passcode	customer can record name/greeting and change passcode
Receive Voicemail	customer cannot receive voicemail messages in this mailbox (neither through direct calling nor by another UniBears customer pressing [4] to send)	customer can receive voicemail messages in this mailbox when another UniBears customer presses [4] to send a message to this number, or if number is part of another customers "group"
Attendant Operator	caller can press 0 to speak to an operator	caller cannot press 0 to speak to an operator
Telephone Access	customer can access mailbox by calling phone number and pressing * or by calling the UniBears access number	customer can access mailbox only by calling the UniBears access number
Web Access	optional	required

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Created on: December 7, 2005
Last revised: January 11, 2006