Verizon Saves Voicemail Recording of Man's Late Wife

that is such a great story...i'm glad he's able to listen to his wife's voice everyday. it's so sweet..

Can I get My Mom's recording from her old telephone number? It has been 12 years. It was the only voice recording we had. Kathy

way to go Verizon! such a nice thing to do for someone!

Why does Verizon keep our personal messages anyway?

Wow, finally a nice story...thats refreshing. Instead of death and mayhem, the media should try articles like this more often.

That is great for this particular situation, it is so sweet for him to have the voice of his loved one back!!!!

The only thing that bothers me is that these companies have our phone messages???? I also wonder why they would keep outgoing messages???
For what purpose???

It's a little too creepy.

Thumbs up for Verizon! Such a thoughtful thing to do. There are still people in the world that are compasionate. Thanks for your thoughtfulness.

Part of "CONDITIONING" is when we're sold bs like this as a way of "conditioning" us to think that retaining information on us in dossiers is a good thing.
We've just been advised that another form of electronic communication is being archived against us, but it was done in a pretty wrapper like this love story.
This is NOT a good thing.
Communications between people are private, and are not the property of anyone else simply because they're not sent through the Post Office.

THAT IS GREAT THAT VERIZON CAN FIND OLD VOICEMAILS, BUT WHAT ABOUT
PROVIDING CUSTOMER SERVICE TO THEIR EXISTING FIOS CUSTOMERS?????
I WAS ON HOLD FOR 6 HOURS THE OTHER DAY, WAS THAT SO THEY COULD RETRIEVE AN OLD VOICE
RECORDING??? PROBABLY!!

This man is a neighbor of mine, and after reading about this in the local paper I was in tears. Although I questioned why he had not taken videorecordings of all their trips together, that too would have helped ease his heartache. I too have messages left on my answering machine from people who are very dear to me and because I almost lost my Mom in a so called simple operation, the first thing I did when I got home from the hospital was listen to her sweet messages she had left me and then ran to Staples for a mini tape recorder. I now save all my messages from the people I love that way. I am so happy he was able to get his message back, but please sir, get a tape recorder and tape it over and over on the tape for future problems may arise such as power outages have erased my messages in the past.

great thing to do verizon

Verizon is such a crappy company..I think it is great they would finally do something to help a customer!

I have been with every phone company out there and Verizon is the best. Barb, six hours on hold???? Sounds like you got bigger problems.

Makes me ashamed for all the smack ive talked about verizon. Someone deserves a raise...

Oh for the love of god, you people are freaking paranoid! If Verizon did not keep a copy of your outgoing message, how the heck do you expect it to be played for anyone? It is not like your phone stores the message, of course it is sitting on a server somewhere.

This is a voice message recorded for the purpose of collecting messages. "Hi, this is so and so leave a message at the beep" They weren't recording peivate messaages.

good on ya verizon! how wonderful for this man...after losing my soul mate last june i know how important the seemingly trivial things - like having a voice recording - can be...

its good that verizon cares about people thats better than att. who only cares about $$$$$$$ if they had to do this for him they would have charged him.

Barb, if you stayed on hold for anything other than, say, a couple million dollars - you might want to try therapy. JMHO

Just a response to those who don't know that there voice mail and out going msg are recorded in all telephone company data bases not on their home answer machines so the only msgs that are stored are the ones you put there how else could you use your cell phone? Nice story