Vodafone EU Roamers Can Get UK Tariff For £3 A Day

Vodafone customers will soon be able to make calls, send texts and surf the Internet abroad using their UK price plan for an additional £3 a day.

Users who opt into Vodafone Eurotraveller will not be charged for receiving texts and phone calls while in any country included in Vodafone’s Europe Zone.

The news comes ahead of the new European Commission (EC) roaming regulations which aim to prevent users from inadvertently running up huge bills while using mobile devices abroad.

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Customers will have access to any minutes, texts and data allowances included in their price plan, while out-of-bundle charges will remain the same as they would be in the UK. Vodafone says that a user who made three ten minute calls, sends ten texts to the UK and uses 15MB of mobile data would only be charged £3 plus their home price plan rather than £17 on its existing roaming price structure.

Those interested can call 5555 to opt-in to the offer and will only pay for the days that they are abroad.

Users who opt-out will still benefit from reduced roaming prices due to come into effect on 1 July as part of the EC’s new regulations. Making a call from 35 European destinations will cost 28.8p a minute, sending a text 8.9p and accessing the mobile Internet will cost 69.9p per megabyte.

The EU has long been calling for reduced roaming costs and reached a preliminary deal for a new price cap for data roaming in March. The price cap will decrease every year until 2014 and will also allow consumers to sign up from an alternative roaming offer separate from their home contract.

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