Voicemail messages can be expensive to retrieve. Here are some ways which i found very effective to keep the cost down

1. Clear any old voicemail messages from your voicemail feature so that you won’t be wasting airtime and money listening to old messages.

2. Pick up voicemail messages using a landline; it’s much cheaper (your service provider can assist you with the dial-in number for this).

3. If many of your messages are just ‘call me back’, then you may not need voicemail at all. You can ask your service provider to switch off voicemail. This means that, instead of leaving a message, the call will ring out; and the caller ID of who you missed will display on your screen. It’s as good as leaving a message, and it costs you nothing!

4. Tell your carrier to set the call diversion time to longer than the default (usually 15 seconds). This gives you longer to answer the phone, so you won’t miss a call that goes to voicemail that is expensive to retrieve