Auto-download voicemail

I have a cell phone with a voice mail service. The way the voice mail service works, is that if someone calls me, and leaves a message, my phone will tell me that someone has left a message... but I still have to make a phone call from my phone, to the voice mail service, in order to actually listen to that message.

I propose that the voice mail service establish a data connection with the phone, and copy the voice messages over that connection onto the cell phone.

Then, whenever I want to listen to my messages, I can get them instantly, through a program on the phone, since they're already *on* the phone... no additional connection need be made.

When deleting a message from the phone, I would be given an option: delete only from the phone, delete only from the central database, or delete from both. If I delete a message from the database, or both phone and database, a (low priority) data message would be sent to the database. It wouldn't necessarily be sent right away, but eventually, when the cell tower has enough unused bandwith.

Other features: The data connection can be a "low priority" one, to conserve cell service bandwith. When listening to voicemails that your phone has downloaded, you don't need to be in range of a cell tower. I could record voice mails that I want to send, without sending them right away, and listen to how they sound before actually sending them (like composing an email).

When sending messages, the user would have the option of using a normal priority data connection (and be charged by the phone company, assuming the user doesn't have an unlimited data plan), which would send the voice mail right away, as quickly as possible, or low priority data connection (which would be free or reduced cost, even without an unlimited data plan), which would send the voice mail only when the cell tower has enough bandwidth.