How to Set Up a Voice Mail and Password With Verizon FiOS

by Jenny Parker, Demand Media

FiOS voice mail eliminates the need for a traditional answering machine.

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If you use Verizon FiOS for your home phone service, voice mail comes as a standard option. When you are unavailable to answer a call, the caller will hear a recorded greeting and will be prompted to leave you a message just as he would be with a traditional answering machine. You can then check your messages by dialing the FiOS voice mail access number from any phone, no matter where you are. Setting up your FiOS voice mailbox and password for the first time takes only a matter of minutes.

Step 1

Call the FiOS voice mail access number -- 1-888-234-6786 -- from your home telephone.

Step 2

Enter your default password, which is the last four digits of your FiOS telephone number. After entering this number, press the pound key.

Step 3

Follow the prompts to initialize your mailbox, record a greeting and set a new password. The password you choose must be four to 10 digits long and may not contain any portion of your telephone number, any repeating digits or ascending or descending digits such as 1234 or 4321.

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References

  • Verizon: Setting Up Your voice Mail---FiOS Digital Voice
  • Verizon: Resetting Your Voice Mail Passcode---FiOS Digital Voice

About the Author

Jenny Parker is a New England-based entrepreneur who has been writing since 1995. Parker writes extensively on creative self-employment and genealogy; her work has appeared on Etsy.com and Ancestry.com. She also has self-published several short story collections and is currently working on her first non-fiction book chronicling the history of her ancestors in America.

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