![]() Some systems may use multiple telecommunications methods, permitting recipients and callers to retrieve or leave messages through multiple methods such as PCs, PDA, cell phones, or smartphones. Most systems use phone networks, either cellular- or landline-based, as the conduit for all of these functions. To do so they contain a user interface to select, play, and manage messages a delivery method to either play or otherwise deliver the message and a notification ability to inform the user of a waiting message. Voicemail systems are designed to convey a caller's recorded audio message to a recipient. The report said that the number of voicemail messages declined eight percent compared to 2011. In September 2012 a report from USA Today and Vonage claimed that voicemail was in decline. They became popular in the early 1980s when they were made available on PC-based boards. Voicemail systems were developed in the late 1970s by Voice Message Exchange (VMX). Voicemail popularity continues today with Internet telephone services such as Skype, Google Voice and ATT that integrate voice, voicemail and text services for tablets and smartphones Although VMI trademarked the term, it eventually became a generic term for automated voice services employing a telephone. The term Voicemail was coined by Televoice International (later Voicemail International, or VMI) for their introduction of the first US-wide Voicemail service in 1980. ![]()
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