Vodafone announces revised roaming tariff

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 30: Vodafone India, one of India’s telecommunications service providers, has announced the revised roaming tariffs on National Roaming effective May 1, after the telecom regulator has slashed ceiling rates.
Vodafone customers will now pay less for both local and STD calls on National Roaming. On roaming, for all outgoing local calls, a ceiling of 80 paise per minute has been fixed from the earlier Rs 1/ per minute, and for STD calls it is Rs 1.15 per min from earlier Rs 1.5 per min. For incoming calls on roaming, a ceiling of 45 paise per minute has been fixed from the earlier 75 paise per minute.
Vodafone Customers will now pay up to 75% less for texts while on roaming. For a local text, it is 25 paise compared to Rs 1 before; and for STD texts, 38 paise from Rs 1.50 earlier, in accordance with the Telecom Regulator Authority of India (TRAI) guidelines.
Also, Vodafone has introduced Special Roaming Tariff Plan (SRTP) its Prepaid and Postpaid customers.
Currently, Vodafone has incoming free packs for Prepaid and Postpaid customers and the incoming voice calls while on national roaming would be free, on payment of fixed charge.