Vodafone today started the Prepaid Roaming Facility for the customers of Kolkata, Rest of Bengal travelling to Assam & North East.
This National Prepaid Roaming facility for Assam and North East telecom circle, which was available only for Postpaid Customers, will now be available to all Vodafone Prepaid Customers.
The service will be pre-activated and will not require any additional charges for activation however Standard Roaming Tariff will be applicable for outgoing and incoming calls. This facility empowers customer with a hassle-free experience of not changing their prepaid SIM while travelling.
According to the recent DoT announcement, Prepaid subscribers of any part of India including Assam and North East will be permitted roaming facility to and from of North East India, except J&K without any restriction as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk
VodafoneIndia May 31, 2011 at 2:30 pm
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ssthanu May 30, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Dear Readers,
It seems to be there is serious problem in VODAFONE Prepaid Billing system. Those who have activated Rs.495 bonus card, please check your call duration, charges and balance after each call. I am a victim of this for last one month.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=184604310298&topic=20425
Abhijit May 29, 2011 at 1:41 pm
@Kaushik Roy
I have not received such type of sms from Airtel.But !dea Claims that they are the almost 1st operator who has been introduced this service since 1st August 2010 in Assam & N.E. Telecomtalk.info should publish a list of operators name those who are offering prepaid roaming in Assam & N.E.or atleast post a separate article regarding this matter. THIS IS INDEED A VERY VERY VERY GOOD NEWS.
Kaushik Roy May 28, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Airtel Kolkata also started it
I received a sms regarding this
soon other operators who are present in Assam & North-East will also start this
Abhijit May 28, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Can any body tell when the other operators will start this prepaid roaming service in Assam & N.E.?
Animesh Sengupta May 28, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Absolutely agree with your thoughts, However call charges are comparably low in UK and Europe as well.
We have paid exorbitant call charges in the advent years of mobile services in India,
All operators do not offer the same kind of network coverage as a Vodafone or Airtel.
What I am trying to say is this kind of offering in India, would
1.considerably reduce the operating cost of telecom companies,in terms of
infrastructure setup.
2.Reduce the harmful cellphone tower radiation,due to lesser no of cell sites.
3. Provide consumers seamless coverage irrespective of their service provider.
4. Lastly help cell phone companies retain their subscribers.
Rajive Borde May 28, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Is there 1paisa/sec or 1/2p sec call charges in UK like India ?
Just for info, In India : Videocon did the some kind of similar thing in mumbai wherein its customer can roam in Loop Mobile because its network was not rolled out throughout the city , few year back Airtel also allow to Roam in Vodafone when their network collapse due to major fire in their switch in Mumbai, S Tel did the similar things in Orissa circle.
Animesh Sengupta May 28, 2011 at 2:55 pm
An innovative service started by to leading GSM Operators in UK T Mobile and Orange, they have tied up for INTRA ROAMING,(UK does not have 23 telecom circles like India). The mobile automatically switches to the available network. There are no extra charges for the services in terms of calling rates and monthly rentals.
It is high time that even the basic roaming charges go off, Incoming should be free while roaming.
deb May 27, 2011 at 9:21 pm
good move
SANJIB May 27, 2011 at 8:43 pm
sorry Raaj, BSNL is the 1st operator who start assam and NE, roaming facility with prepaid sim.
rajiev May 27, 2011 at 7:06 pm
nothing to say!
Deep May 27, 2011 at 6:31 pm
i am having national roaming facility in BSNL NORTH EAST prepaid connection in Mumbai from Yesterday.
Raaj May 27, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Good move again by vodafone,the first operator to allow so
hardeep May 27, 2011 at 5:31 pm
what do u want to say??!!
rajiev May 27, 2011 at 5:19 pm
i think this auto activated as normal account