Why is cellular voicemail storage so limited when the cost of storage has come so dramatically?
At a limit of 20 messages and 3 min long each, an hour of saved audio is usually sufficient for most people who check their voicemail on any regular interval.
Snn5: Do you have stats to support "usually sufficient"? I am asking the question because I feel this storage limitation is behind the times. All current forms of storage that come to mind have increased significantly over the past 10 years making 20 messages of 3 min each feel very limiting to me. The reason that this limit is "usually sufficient" may be because users are forced to live within this limitation.
I would like a better answer, is there something special about voicemail technology that makes increasing storage capacity challenging? What is the barrier to thousands of messages and days of audio?
My voicemails on average or under 50K in size so 10G of online storage (small by todays standards) would hold 200,000 messages. I would not "need" 200,000 messages, I'm only using these numbers to support the idea that the cost of storage is not likely the barrier. So I'll repeat, what is the barrier?
