From a Rural Wireless Phone – Simply Dial 055# to access your account or Dial 09-242-0000 if checking message from a mobile phone anywhere in NZ.
Menu when not listening to messages
1 – Listen to messages in currently selected folder. (new or old messages selected when you first connect)
2 – Change your current message folder. (‘0′ for new messages, ‘1′ for old messages, ‘2′ for work messages, ‘3′ for family messages, ‘4′ for friends messages, ‘#’ to cancel)
3 – advanced options (‘4′ to place an outgoing call)
0 – Mailbox options (record greetings and set PIN number)
* – Help
# – Exit
Menu when listening to messages
3 – advanced options (‘1′ – send a reply if a Rural Wireless user, ‘2′ – call the person who left the message, ‘3′ – listen to the message details, ‘4′ – to place outgoing call)
4 – Go back to the previous message
5 – Repeat the current message
6 – Play the next message
7 – Delete the current message
8 – Forward the message to another Rural Wireless mailbox
9 – Save the message to a folder (‘0′ for new messages, ‘1′ for old messages, ‘2′ for work messages, ‘3′ for family messages, ‘4′ for friends messages)
Setting up your Voicemail greetings
Once you press ‘0′ to access your voicemail greetings settings then you can select:
1 – To setup your unavailable message
2 – To setup your busy message
3 – To setup your name
4 – To setup a temporary greeting (i.e. on holiday for a while)
5 – To change your PIN number (instead of using the Rural Wireless Live site)
Press ‘#’ after recording and follow the prompts to listen to the recording and save it if you wish.
How do I divert my phone call to another number
Dial *72 and then wait for the dial tone
Enter number to divert to i.e. 06 123 4567
Wait for “high beep, high beep, low beep, low beep”
Hang up
To deactivate call diversion, dial *73