Vodafone India, the second largest telecom operator in India launched a set of attractive unlimited data plans for its frequent travelling customers in India who are visiting Japan and Saudi Arabia. This unlimited data plans provide customers full freedom of using data on mobile services while travelling abroad. Vodafone India had earlier provided customers with 60% discount rate for Voice, Data and SMS international tariffs.
Customers can choose from three unlimited international roaming data plans with different validity options for rental of Rs 1499 (3 days validity), Rs 2499 (5 days validity) and Rs 3499 (7days validity). Vodafone is offering this data benefits in partnership with Softbank’s network in Japan and Mobility’s network in Saudi Arabia. Customers need to note that data usage on any other international operator’s network in these countries will be charged at standard international data roaming charges of Rs 5.50/10 KB.
To know the details of the partner network, the customer needs to do the following:
- Send a SMS PACK Country name to 111. This will provide the customer with the network name and its handset display name.
- The customer then needs to select the applicable network manually after arriving at his destination.
- When a customer lands overseas he will again receive an SMS informing which operator to select on to avail the benefit.
To avail this offer customers need to send an SMS ACTULJPN3/5/7 – for Japan and ACTULSAU3/5/7 -for Saudi Arabia (the number 3/5/7 stands for validity, basis the customer choice) to the toll-free number 111. The rental charge for the plan chosen by the customer will feature in the billing cycle.