When you call a Nextel phone, it says, “Please wait while the subscriber is being located,” or something to that effect; is that simply replacing the ringing, or does the person whose phone you’re calling not ring until he or she is “located?”
I called someone about ten minutes ago, and was told three times that she was being located, but it never rang before going to voicemail. I didn’t want to try to improvise on a message, but now, after having collected my thoughts, I’m ready. However, I don’t want to leave a voicemail if it will be the second appearance of a missed call in a short period of time–I don’t want to come off as a stalker. So, can someone help me with this?
In my experience, the phone does not ring when the “looking for subscriber” part is going on. I have a friend with a Nextel phone and get this message whenever he is in his dungeon-like, Faraday cage office and he has no idea I called unless I leave a VM and he leaves his office and gets a signal and is told he has a voicemail.
I used to have a Nextel phone. I think you get that message when the cell system is trying to find the phone. It goes to voicemail if it can’t find it (Faraday cage, phone turned off, out of range). You get the typical ring if the system actually rings the phone.
I don’t recall if Nextel phones record missed calls, but that information is generally managed locally in the phone, so if the system can’t find the phone, the phone never knows there was a missed call.