Beeping before dial-tone

[whubbard1]

Hello,

I'm hoping that someone can tell me how to disable the beeping (alerting me of a voicemail) before the dialtone? I don't need my phone to alert me this way, and it confuses vistors to our home when the pick up the line.

Many Thanks

[jumpin68ny]

Not sure if you can do that unless you disable voice mail.....

Never heard of anyone wanting to disable the studder dial-tone other than listening to all your voice mail.  Stop using VZ voice mail and use your own answering machine.....

[whubbard1]

I would like to diable VZ voice mail and use my Google Voice voicemail instead but I can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas? Google wasn't helpful.

[eann2]

but if i don't have voicemail (but i do hear the 10 beeps before the dial tone)... how would i listen to the messges on "my" voicemail?