Hullomail & The Joy of Travel

For those of you who know me, I have been using Hullomail since the late of 2008 and was rather upset that TMobile felt the need to charge me for using an alternative voicemail provider whilst other mobile telcos embraced the technology. In fairness TMobile eventually removed the charges after alot of effort by Andy Munarriz over at Hullomail.

In short, Hullomail is a voicemail system with a difference. It does everything your current voicemail does and more – and all for FREE. It records your voicemails and emails these to your inbox – which opens a lot of opportunity for abuse. Have you ever left a voicemail that you subsequently regretted!! Now you can post it on the web or email it to all your friends.

If you chose to listen to a voicemail and delete it in your inbox, it also deletes it in your voicemail and vica versa (through the magic of IMAP). The biggest upside for me is my messages are in my inbox – and they aren’t deleted until I have addressed them.

But when overseas Hullomail is even better.

I set all my calls to divert and my voicemails are delivered to my inbox. Hullomail sends me a text when I have received a voicemail and in a world where internet access costs substantially less (or is free) I can pick up voicemails for nothing. And typically I email back a response to the person leaving the call – bang goes all of those overseas charges.

If you haven’t tried Hullomail yet, please do – hopefully, one day, all telcos will supply this type of service as standard – but I’m guessing they would feel a need to charge for it.