Vodafone flat rate roaming in Europe

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Vodafone Europe have released roaming for a flat rate fee of €12 for every day of use. The tariff will be available to Vodafone customers with mobile-enabled laptops from 1 July 2007.

The initiative draws upon Vodafone Passport - which has already attracted over 12m customers. Vodafone is now seeking to extend these benefits to customers throughout Europe who wish to use their laptops when travelling.

The new tariff replaces complex ‘per Megabyte’ tariffs with a simple flat fee for practically unlimited data usage. The daily tariff enables Vodafone customers to send or receive data at ease within a 24 hour period or one calendar day (depending on the Vodafone market) for a fixed fee of €12 (excluding VAT). The fixed fee covers consumption within either a 24 hour period or a calendar day, up to 50 MB of data, after which the customer’s standard per-megabyte rate applies.

Vodafone will launch the tariff across the majority of its European footprint, including its principal European markets, on 1 July. It will be introduced into the remaining European markets soon thereafter.

As with Vodafone Passport there is no activation charge for opting into the daily roaming tariff.

The €12 (excluding VAT) flat rate tariff is applicable when a Vodafone customer is roaming on Vodafone subsidiary networks in Europe. Should a customer roam onto another network then standard per megabyte charging will apply.

The new rates that Vodafone will offer other network operators are as follows:

- for small sessions of up to a maximum of 200 Kb of data, the charge will be a maximum of €0.50

- for sessions above 200 Kb, the rate will be €0.50 per Mb.

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