iPhone Visual Voicemail - Roaming costs

[wenklaw]

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To avoid data charges when i am abroad I wnat to know what will happen If I divert all calls to +447953222222 before i leave the UK and have iphone visual voicemail enabled but with data roaming disabled? Will i be able to receive any visual voicemails left when i connect to WiFi and will it be free to listen to them on my iPhone as I wont be calling my voicemail as they just download

[Chris_B · Accepted solution]

@wenklaw   Visual voicemail is a network cellular feature, not a Wi-Fi feature and how will your device pickup the visual voicemail?  And Wi-Fi calling doesn’t work abroad.  

[wenklaw]

If visual voicemail only works via cellular data that’s answered my question. A big fat no to retrieving abroad via WiFi data, shame as can’t really see why it shouldn’t work but it’s what it is. I had actually come to the same conclusion through turning cellular data off and leaving a message, didn’t get it until I turned cellular data back on.

I know WiFi calling doesn’t work abroad although in the past i could get it to work via a VPN sat on a NAS box turning off cellular service etc..  I digress!! No real need as what’s app, FaceTime etc all work fine abroad.  I know it’s against T&C anyway and EE could bill you for roaming etc