Cut Costs On Your Phone Bill

Sometimes receiving your phone bill can be a big shock. Why not get your whole family to try the following easy steps to manage your telephone bill?

• Reserve calls that can wait till after 7pm and advise others to do the same.
• Limit your calls to five minutes or less. Less time = lower phone bill = more money for you.
• When calling a cellphone from a land line, let it ring only five times and then hang up before Voicemail answers: it costs you R1.88 even if it’s one second. Same principle applies to landlines: you pay 59c and 68c on top of that to leave a voicemail.
• Call Telkom and ask them to place a limit on your account. If you don’t want to spend over a particular amount, ask them to set the limit at that point.
• When chatting to friends or family overseas, rather get them to call you – it’s A LOT cheaper for them.