Vodafone have launched a brand new roaming deal today which is available to both business and non business customers on the UK network. For a charge of £3 for the day you use your phone you will now be able to take your UK package abroad with you INCLUDING data allowances!.
So say for example you are in sunny Spain for 5 days (which I will be in August), I can pay £3 a day and use my 3000 Minutes, 3000 Texts and 1GB data use which for a heavy smartphone user is a fantastic deal considering past roaming deals on data costing a lot more.
If you are on a deal which includes Passport or Data Traveller you can keep this unless you opt into the new service at which point you cannot go back.
Also remember that this deal does not include extra packs such as inclusive 08 calls or MMS and also if you still have Test Drive with unlimited data this will not work, instead you get your normal contract allowance.
Considering when I go abroad using an iPhone or Android phone I use more than 25MB in a single day and make at least 3 phone calls this should be a great way to save money abroad and give peace of mind.
To opt in to this new service you can call 5555 from your Vodafone handset and select the option given.
For more information including a list of available countries visit www.vodafone.co.uk/roaming
Vodafone Euro Traveller works out incredibly expensive if you are mainly a data user with varied roamed call use.
ReplyDeleteData Traveller cost only 10 pounds a month for 25mb a day. In my case calls varied but in total monthly bill if I was roaming for a month was never as high as what it would cost with Euro Traveller - around 90 pounds!
As Vodafone removed the old services without giving the option to keep them, many customers and I are fighting to be released from our contracts as they are now pretty much useless when abroad and we chose Vodafone due to these services being available. Vodafone, however, are not allowing this and so complaints have been lodged with Ofcom, the Ombudsman and BBC Watchdog.
You can see the discontent here:
http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Pay-Monthly-Services/Eurotraveller-questions/td-p/1150087
I urge all of you who are unhappy not to just sit back and take this kind of treatment. The more Vodafone see that people are upset and their reputation going down the drain, the more they are likely to worry and listen!