T-Mobile UK abolishes premium divert charges and helps HulloMail

Andy Munarriz is having a happy week.

Andy, one of the chaps behind the rather innovative HulloMail voicemail service, is delighted that T-Mobile UK have finally stopped their ridiculous premium charging policy for voicemail diverts.

If you wanted to use a service such as HulloMail for your voicemail, T-Mobile applied either 17 or 26p per minute voicemail divert charges. That can add up. Especially if you get a lot of voicemail and if people leave you long messages.

T-Mobile has now decided to count divert charges as part of bundled minutes. This is brilliant news for T-Mobile customers — but even better news for Andy and the HulloMail team. One of the painful barriers for them has been the fact that if any of their customers signed up with their T-Mobile G1, they’d get nailed for crazy divert charges.

Madness, considering HulloMail’s success with their HulloMail app for Android (given T-Mobile’s support for the platform).

If you haven’t checked out HulloMail, do so at http://www.hullomail.com/. It just might be what you’re looking for. The service allows you to keep your own voicemails — in your email (Google Mail is ideal) — and if you’d like an introduction from Andy, check out Week 45 of the Mobile Industry Review Show.

HulloMail is available as an application from the Android App Store (UK and USA) but you can also use it with other mobile handsets too.