Verizon customers have been waiting for Visual Voicemail to arrive for quite a while now. Sure you would need a good smartphone to take advantage of the whole Visual Voicemail concept but now it’s all possible.

Verizon has launched their Visual Voicemail and they have support for a single handset so far, the LG Voyager. More smartphones will surely follow as Verizon is competing against Sprint on this one. Sprint had the service running from before on smartphones like the Samsung Instinct.

With the 3G iPhone release, Verizon might need its Visual Voicemail to keep their customers still hooked on Verizon’s plans. And if they do manage to bring the Thunder from RIM this fall as it’s been rumored, they might just find themselves in a much better position to compete against AT&T or Sprint.