Unified Voicemail is a unique concept, but the technology exists, and if Kaldus done a complete renovation of the telephone systems, then it would make sense to have unified voicemail. Simply put, there is one voicemail for all of your lines. You could have a voicemail number, a home phone number, and a cellular phone number. All 3 lines will go to the same voicemail. This does not matter which phone number was called. The only disadvantage is you won’t know which telephone they called, but it saves you the time and trouble of checking multiple voicemails.
This will mean someone can leave a message after calling your home phone number, and you would be able to use the visual voicemail on your cellular phone to read the voicemail message. You can select that particular voicemail to listen to it, and call back with your cellular phone line, but obviously showing your cellular phone number. If you have a pager service, your pager will always sound off even if someone left a voicemail after calling your home or cellular phone number. This could be a little annoying, but this is a minor disadvantage.
You shouldn’t have to worry about faxes calling your voicemail. If you have a fax line, your fax machine can pick up on the first ring and since you own at least 10 telephone numbers, you can designate a dedicated fax number which you can grant to anyone needing to send a fax.
One might complain that they want a unique voicemail for their home business. If that is the case, they should be getting a Business ID Number, and with that – they will be able to acquire a new business telephone number for their business. Yes, having 1,000 telephone numbers are overkill for a home business (or any business), but the telephone number is unique, and so will be the unified voicemail.
The customer may not want to use unified voicemail. They can offset the consequences. They can set their unified voicemail to collect on 45 seconds. They can buy a digital answering machine (or telephony server), and set that to pick up on 15 seconds. This means when someone calls your home phone, the digital answering machine will pick up before the unified voicemail. However, unified voicemail will still work for cellular line(s), but will not pick up until 45 seconds. Needless to say unless you call into the digital answering machine of your home phone, you would not know if you have any voicemails until you arrive home. In my opinion, unified voicemail is much more powerful, and capable, and the more lines you have, the better it is. The only exception will be the business lines which should be using a telephony server instead of the unified voicemail.