Vodafone are the most global Telco Australia has, yet their global roaming rates have historically been obscenely high, just like their competitors. Today they’ve made a small dent to those charges by introducing standard local call charges for customers calling Australia from Singapore or New Zealand.
They’ve also adjusted data charges for New Zealand travellers, offering the “bargain” price of $2 per MB.
To get the discounted, you need to opt in to the Vodafone Traveller service before you hop on the plane. The local pricing are only available on postpaid outbound calls – you still get charged to receive calls as well. While it’s still a far cry from being consumer friendly, at least Vodafone are cutting prices rather than raising them, I guess…
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Nick Partridge
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 5:34 PMTragic that anyone would pay this. Try Starhub Singapore, $S8 (sim) + $S17 (credit) with FREE landline calls to Aussie and 200mb for $S6 (from that credit). Or Voda NZ, $NZ29.95 (sim) giving $NZ2 for 60mins to any of 30 countries (inc Aussie) and $NZ10 for 100mb on pre-pay. I went through 3 numbers / sims in 2 weeks last month guided by http://paygsimwithdata.wikia.com and must have saved a heap. Can’t think why anyone roams. Redirect your mobile to your landline, redirect that to your temporary overseas mobile (all on-line with 3 and internode) and never be out of touch.
Nick Partridge
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 5:41 PMThat is charged at your rate plan but not included in your cap (like 3 do) so on a $29 cap that is “90c per minute + 35c flagfall”. Makes a local sim look very interesting.
Painkiller
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 8:27 PMI went to NZ recently. i used 18mb of data while there and got slugged $190 for it. Vodafone are tools.