Voicemail notification by text message - possible or impossible?

[Growltiger]

I just want a text message whenever a voicemail has arrived. Has this feature been discontinued? If not, how can I get it?

No one seems to know.

I rang O2 and was talked through setting up an APN that was identical to the one I already have. That took 30 minutes and didn't help.

Searching the internet I find reference to an "idata" APN and feature but they didn't seem to have heard of it and I don't know if that would enable it or is relevant or even exists.

I also found some old messages from 2009 where  it said it used to be offered on the 901 menu, it isn't there now.

By the way I'm not asking for the text alert service (for missed calls) provided by dialling 1710.

Anyone?

Surely someone here or at O2 must know?

(PS. Pay monthly account. Samsung S8+ phone.)

[Growltiger]

Thanks @pgn. I had seen that 2009 thread. I think that sadly, 16 years later, the feature seems to have been lost forever. It's a real shame.

There really should be some way for customers to have some way to get things like this into the ears of the people at O2 who decide things. A way to set up a campaign perhaps.

PS. I used to use Vodafone. O2 is vastly less bad.

[pgn]

There was a really useful app called TuGo - texts and call history visible on your PC, you could compose and send SMS from your phone but using your keyboard instead of the phone keypad (a bit like WhatsApp and WhatsApp Web today) - gone, sadly ending what had promised to be a remarkably useful bit of messaging innovation.

Never used Vodafone, O2's signal where I live trumps any of the other networks.

Thanks for the feedback, @Growltiger.

[Cleoriff]

TuGo......used in the good old days. (Particularly useful when abroad and over Wifi) Discontinued in 2017.

Seems to be a habit of O2, to stop something which proves useful to customers.

https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Discussions-Feedback/The-demise-of-TuGo/td-p/1081516 

Apologies for going off topic. I simply couldn't resist when TuGo was mentioned!