156:, New Zealand. The service originally started out as a multi-platform visual voicemail solution, with the novel feature of personal greetings, where users could create different greetings for callers based on their incoming caller ID. Helping combat robocalls their service replaces an ordinary voicemail; it instead plays three notes that create the impression of a non-working number to prevent robocalls from coming in.
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