Cryptic Smartone-Vodafone SMS

Smartone-Vodafone logoAll of a sudden I received the following cryptic SMS message from Smartone-Vodafone:

Voicemail system migration has been completed. Your greeting & PIN have been reset. To check messages before system migration, dial 138 & press 5.

The thing is that there was no prior message to say that the Voicemail system is to be migrated. Also what does the last sentence mean? Isn’t this SMS to inform me that the said migration has already been completed?

Seeing that this Voicemail “migration” comes so close to the official iPhone launch by Smartone-Vodafone on the 23rd. Does it imply that I’m correct earlier about Apple’s Visual Voicemail coming to SMV iPhone customers very soon?

Tethering Finally Returns to SMV iPhone Users in HK

Starting January 23, 2010 Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) will become an official Apple carrier partner in Hong Kong, along with 3 HK. May be this will mean that the two long awaited features: “Visual Voicemail” and “Tethering”, will also be officially available to SMV customers (old and new). I was not able to get an official confirmation about this, as everyone I spoke to are keeping the SMV iPhone tariff plans and features very secretive.

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