Free Voice Mail in Ohio

Access to free voice mail is now available to individuals in the 419 area code of northwest Ohio who do not have a telephone because they are without a permanent residence or cannot afford one. This new service is being made available through the combined efforts of the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC), the state residential utility consumer advocate, Leader Technologies Incorporated and the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks (OASHF). Leader Voice Mail will enable people without phone service to retrieve messages from a personal telephone number which can be accessed from any touch-tone telephone, including wireless, or by using the Internet. Regional community service organizations in northwest Ohio, such as the Northwestern Ohio Community Action Commission (NOCAC) and others, will make the service available to their clients on an as-needed basis.