Vodafone roaming adds increased data to plans for July and August

Vodafone Ireland today announced that its Red customers can now enjoy great value roaming during July and August with endless calls and texts to any Network at home and within the destination country, but also receive a greater daily data allowance of 500MB per day (up from 200MB), while abroad

Red roaming is available to all customers opted in to RED Roaming, which is a daily add on enabling customers travelling abroad to access their home plan's calls and texts. It also includes worry-free data usage with an increased 500MB daily allocation during July and August. With a daily rate only charged on the days when the phone is used, there are no hidden charges on return from holidays.

Commenting, Vodafone Ireland Consumer Director Marcel de Groot said, "Customers know exactly what they are getting with Vodafone Red Roaming; our plans are simple, transparent and offer even better value than before. Customers can use their handsets in the same way they do at home, now to include additional data, safe in the knowledge that there are no hidden charges on return. "

The daily price for RED Roaming varies by region starting from as little as €1.99 a day for visitors to the UK. Travellers heading to Europe, USA, Canada, and Turkey can enjoy RED Roaming for just €2.99 a day while those heading further afield to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China and India will pay just €4.99 a day.

RED Roaming is available to all pay as you go customers and to consumer and business bill pay customers on RED and My Way tariffs. Customers can opt in to RED Roaming by sending a freetext RED to 50020.

For RED Business Super customers, roaming is already included in their package when travelling in the UK, EU and USA.

For further information

Clodagh O'Hagan, Vodafone Ireland, 087 9084055

Orla Molloy Weber Shandwick, 01 679 8600

Note to Editors:

4G Roaming is available in the following countries:

• Destinations with 4G roaming: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Korea, Rep of Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK and USA.
• A day is defined as 00:00 to 23:59 local time of the capital city.
• Vodafone Ireland roaming partner's 4G speeds may vary due to coverage and demand.
• The same pricing applies to consumer and business customers, however prices will be quoted excluding VAT to business customers.
• 4G roaming is currently available to bill pay customers opted in to RED Roaming. There are plans to extend 4G roaming to pay as you go customers in 2015.

Average data

The amount of data customers will use depends on the type of service they are accessing, as well as how rich the content is. The table below gives an indication of the average amount of data used for many common tasks.

Roaming offers

Vodafone RED Business

About Vodafone Ireland:

Vodafone is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone has mobile operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 55 more, and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets. As of 31 March 2015, Vodafone had 446 million mobile customers and 12 million fixed broadband customers. For more information, please visit: www.vodafone.ie.