Roam if you want to
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced a three month suspension, commencing 1 June, of roaming charges for calls made from Europe and Australasia. There's no indication this is anything other than a summer promotion, however.
Essentially this is the temporary abolition of the 75p per call currently charged to users of its Passport service and Vodafone is encouraging monthly, pay-as-you-go and business tariff users to sign up to the service for free. It's also cutting the cost of some overseas calls from the UK.
"With our Vodafone Passport promotion you can sit on the beach with your phone switched on knowing you can take and make a call just as you would if you were in your back garden," said Ian Shepherd consumer director for Vodafone UK.
Here's the full list of countries covered by the offer: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Vatican City, New Zealand, Australia.
