Voicemail system

Voice mail systems rare designed to perform telephone call answering and message handling services. Voicemail systems allow telephone callers to leave recorded messages for called parties when the called parties are unavailable. Over the past several decades, the telecommunications industry has continued to expand and experience growth spurts in technology. Voicemail has continued to expand and establish itself as a key element in the successful operations of most businesses. In a typical voicemail system, calling parties attempt to reach a called party or a subscriber of the functionality of the voicemail system and are directed to the subscriber's voicemail box where a voice message may be left for the subscriber's subsequent review and use. A voicemail system today can take on a variety of forms, including a computer card that can operate within a personal computer connected to a businesses telephone system, or a computer card or component that is directly integrated into the businesses telephone system, or as a service provided by a telecommunications company. Voice mail services provided by a telephone company are becoming an alternative to traditional answering machines. Such voicemail systems enable someone to leave a when the user is on the telephone, online, or away from home. Voicemail systems may work in conjunction with a private branch exchange telephone system (PBX system) and allow callers to leave a voice message for a called party when the called party is not available, without the involvement of a third party in taking a message for the called party.