anshu_s09 18 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 India’s 2nd largest GSM Mobile service operator Vodafone today announced reduction in its default National Roaming Rates for all telecom circles across India except Mumbai and Maharashtra & Goa circles. Vodafone slashed its default roaming rates by nearly 30% and with new tariff now Vodafone Prepaid GSM mobile customers across all the telecom circles (except Mumbai/Maharashtra-Goa) can enjoy outgoing Local/STD and Incoming calls at flat Rs. 1 per minute while National Roaming as default tariff without any Bonus Recharge. Earlier Vodafone subscribers needs to recharge with Ticket plan to reduces the roaming cost wherein tariff is 1.5 paisa per Second or 70 paisa per minute (Two Different plan) for all incoming and Outgoing calls while on roaming with in Vodafone Network across India. Here are the details : Vodafone National Roaming Rates (except Mumbai, Maharashtra-Goa Circles ) Roaming On All National Network Except Airtel Roaming on Airtel Network All Incoming Calls Rs.1/minute Rs.1.75/miniute Outgoing calls Local : Rs. 1 / minute Local Rs.1.4 /minute STD Rs. 1 /minute STD Rs.2.4 /minute ISD As per existing rates SMS Outgoing (Local / National) Rs. 1.50 on Vodafone networksRs.3.45 on all other networks International SMS : Rs.3.45 Outgoing Local/National/ISD SMS : Rs.3.45 GPRS / Data charges Vodafone live! and other GPRS services while roaming on the Vodafone and Idea Cellular network @ 10p / 10KB. http://telecomtalk.info/vodafone-slashes-national-roaming-rates/52775/#more-52775 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KanagaDeepan 1,084 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 Wow... Vodafone has reduced Roaming rates to the level of RCom when MDA gave RCom to ADA.. But still it is better, as recently RCom has HIKED roaming rates to Rs1/Rs1/Rs1.50, which is even higher than that of Vodafone.... One thing, I CAN NEVER understand with these telecom operators (Incl our newB MTS) that Roaming SMS charges are more than RoamingSTD call charges.. Why?? These operators are fearing that we users will b0mbard their towers using ROAMING SMS, if they kept its cost low??? Even IUC is NIL in case of SMS.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Karthik R 246 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 Comparitively new operators like MTS who does not have a full fledged national presence in place, rely on other operators (Tata Indicom in this case) for providing roaming network to the customer. Hence charged more. Though the data transmitted in a SMS is miniscule (1kb) the operators fear that the user will exploit it to clog the visiting network. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
csmart 472 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 telcos cannot charge more for voice. while SMS rates even hiked, do not get that much attention. so they keep SMS rates high. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
parin 857 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 i think u are correct Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 Why the hell Vodafone not slashed the roaming rates for Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa ? Kyu bhai Vodafone Walon......humne kya tumhaari BHAINS KHOLI HAI ???? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KanagaDeepan 1,084 Report post Posted January 4, 2011 May be because only vodafone has got 3g license for both mumbai and mah. They are too confident that high end customers won't go away from them Sent from my EPIC 4G using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
csmart 472 Report post Posted January 4, 2011 let MNP come to Mumbai.. then we will see... they are one of the most expensive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Karthik R 246 Report post Posted January 4, 2011 @Kamal bhai It may be because Mumbai/Maharashtra have the most number of migrants and hence incidence of roaming will be higher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
