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I had visual voicemail on a Pixel2 that died.  Now I can't re-activate it on the replacement phone Google sent me.  I get the standard message in the empty visual voicemail box that it takes time to activate and to call *86 to retrieve messages which works but is cumbersome and time consuming.  It's been like this for a week.

I went through the trouble shooting guides on line:  Cleared the app cache and memory a couple times, uninstalled and reinstalled the phone app, restarted the phone, updated the phone operating system.  It still does not activate...

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce