Vodafone Ghana smashes price of international roaming

Accra, Aug 22, GNA – Customers of Vodafone Ghana Limited can now stay connected to family and loved ones while travelling through the company's new roaming service.

Pre-paid and post-paid customers travelling to the UK can make calls and send SMS at standard local United Kingdom rates, which translate into over 100 percent reduction on roaming charges in the United Kingdom.

A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday by Vodafone Ghana said customers could also top up their airtime using widely available Vodafone recharge cards in any Paypal shop or top up online at www.ezetop.com.

It said post-paid and pre-paid Vodafone customers were currently enjoying Africa roaming, a product which allowed travellers in Vodafone partner countries in Kenya, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania and Congo, to receive calls and texts free of charge and make calls at reduced rates.

Mr Tara Squire, Head of Consumer Marketing at Vodafone Ghana said, “We want to introduce simplicity in their travel and help them stay connected by tailoring our products to their communications needs.”

He said “the world is now a global village where people are travelling around Africa and the rest of the world more than ever, either for work or for pleasure.

“We want our customers to be confident in the knowledge that they can get the same great value for money from us when they travel as using a local SIM card.”

Mr Squire noted that the company started this with the “know before you go' bundle, which allowed customers to control their spending; now it was making roaming even more convenient with our localized pricing and top up and with our Africa roaming product.”

He explained that the local pricing was available in the United Kingdom and the intention was to extend it to other countries very soon.

He said prepaid customers travelling to the United Kingdom should dial *125*40# to opt-in and *125*41# to opt-out of the local pricing offer.

Post-paid customers can now call 080010000 to opt-in. Travellers in Africa automatically qualify for the reduced roaming rates automatically once they activate their SIM for international roaming by calling 100 or 08001000 to first activate international roaming.

GNA