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BEWARE! Virgin charge for roaming voicemail even if not retrieved

Chris11 · 2015-08-25 18:58:19

Returned from South Africa to find a bill of £50 for 10 roaming voicemails made from the UK and charged at £4pm even though I did not call to retrieve them. Virgin tell me that the charge was made by the local mobile phone network. How is that possible if the voicemails are stored in the UK??? This does not make any sense…

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dealer_wins Posts: 7,334 Forumite

27 August 2015 at 11:58AM

A good app is Hullomail. Will divert all calls to its voicemail if you ask it to before going abroad, where any voicemails can be retrieved whenever connected to wifi abroad (Or through their webpage on laptop or tablet!)

It also tells you if you had any missed calls whilst your phone is off/out of service (Not sure how it does this but its useful!)

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