I’ve been trying to call a friend of mine (on his mobile phone number) in the US and I kept getting his voice mail (with his voice and all). I finally left a message, but still no response. And it was always going to voice mail immediately. I thought either he was always on the phone or it didn’t accept calls that do not send the caller-ID (which can happen with long distance calls).
Finally, I left a message on his home phone and he immediately sent an email for me to call him on his cell phone – it was a different number!
Turns out the number I had was really old. Seems like the company, Sprint, had never turned off his voice mail on the inactive number.
Fun-nee!
