Just like a landline you could dial 1471 to check who the last person was to call you on the O2 mobile network.
Handy? Well I thought it was. O2 however have ditched it.
They now offer "call alert" whereby you get sent a free txt of the details of who phoned you if your phone was switched off or out of network range.
What's wrong with that I hear your ask? Well, you can only have "call alert" active if you switch off your voicemail. Seems you can only have one or the other active, not both.
Their logic is that if you've got voicemail switched on, people will leave a message. Well not in my experience - a good percentage would just hang up and not bother unless it was important. That's where I thought the 1471 feature was handy. If your phone was off, or out of network range, at least you could check if someone had recently called you and not relied on someone leaving a message.
Nice try O2, but 0 out of 10 for effort. Why can't we have "call alert" and voicemail switched on together? Orange, for example allow it.
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O2's handy 1471 number is no more. new
O2's handy 1471 number is no more. new