My first idea as well, have always had it disabled and I can't remember last time I actually came across one, it died in the nineties (an SMS is way better anyw

My first idea as well, have always had it disabled and I can't remember last time I actually came across one, it died in the nineties (an SMS is way better anyway). Although I bet all operators have them included in all plans in case you want to enable it. And that's a problem of it's own, it probably wouldn't be difficult to turn anyone's voicemail with social engineering or probably a host of other techniques. So I don't know if you suggest getting rid of it completely or just disable it as a customer, the first will not happen over night and the latter might not help much (but probably can't hurt).