Vodafone’s New Roaming Costs to Bring Cheer to Vacationing Customers

July 14th, 2009 admin

Around 2.5 million Vodafone subscribers will benefit from the new Vodafone Passport summer promotion that offers better roaming packages. Standard Vodafone passport rates ensure that you get the best value for money when you are in roaming tariffs on a holiday.

At a rate of about £4.99 per day, Vodafone subscribers can avail up to 25MB of data usage abroad on their cell phones under the Passport scheme. This when broken down comes to approximately 20p per MB. There will be an extra charge of £4.99 per 25MB for all data usage exceeding the first 25MB.

Vodafone claims that with 25MB of data use, you can do a whole lot of activities from their mobile phone. You can read and respond to about 25 emails, browse around 250 web pages, locate a particular area using Google Maps, read eight news articles on a website, change your Facebook status, and watch three one and a half minute long videos on You Tube.

In case you do not require 25MB, then Vodafone offers access at lower rates for usage under 1MB, which is charged on a per kb basis. So the next time you are abroad and only want to check your mail, you can do so using this service from Vodafone. The company estimates that for reading and responding to brief emails, you would require approximately 100 KB.

However, if you are one of those needing a bigger screen to work and use your laptop, then Vodafone has some great options for you. Roaming options for laptop mobile broadband will cost you about £9.99 in Europe and £29.99 in countries outside Europe for usage up to 50MB. This is by far the cheapest overseas mobile broadband charge.

It is important to note that UK time is followed, no matter where you are for Vodafone’s new charges for data usage. The daily billing cycle is from midnight to midnight UK time for payment of a certain amount of data used per day.

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