What are some tips to minimise global roaming charges?
Disable voicemail or request to have it disabled you will not incur any incoming roaming call charges when your contacts leave unwanted or unnecessary voicemail messages. Having voicemail operable means you will be charged excessively twice. Once for the caller leaving a message and once again to retrieve the message. If you must have voicemail enabled, set to unconditional divert before leaving Australia. Adhere to the tips on Voicemail whilst roaming below. If you need to make calls, keep them very short. SMS preferably since you know the flat charge. VoiceMail whilst roaming: The VoiceMail service will function in the exact same way for a customer overseas as for a customer in Australia. Costs: Be very careful. Normal diversion costs apply for a voicemail message to be left when an unconditional diversion to voicemail is set on the roaming phone. If there is a conditional diversion to voicemail set on your service, (eg. no answer or no reply) then the call will try to find them; if
