Currently, Centrex and Intellipath II customers can subscribe to any number of mailboxes with one or more types of services, such as Call Answering, Voice Mail, Automated Attendant, and Information Mailboxes.

For our New York Customers: The service is available on a month-to-month basis for up to 25 mailboxes, or with a 12 to 120 month service agreement for customers with over 25 mailboxes. Some features are available on certain service agreement periods only; some features are restricted to Service Level III and/or IV customers.

One SMDI link connects VMS with the switch and is required for each switch. A common hunt group is provisioned in each switch for all residence and small business (both POTS and Centrex/Intellipath II) customers. All these customers use the same access number to retrieve their messages. Exchange usage charges are incurred when a call is forwarded to a mailbox and when a user retrieves messages. No line or port charges apply.

Larger business customers (over 25 mailboxes) need to order their own hunt group for Call Answering and Voice Mail. The size of the hunt group is determined according to a traffic engineering table. Call processing applications should be supported by their own hunt groups which are sized according to expected traffic.

This product/service is available in New York and New England. For more information, please call you local NYNEX business office.