Dublin, 15 December 2014 @VodafoneIreland customers can now enjoy great value superfast 4G while roaming in 33 countries. With 4G, customers can experience high-speed connections for video, music streaming or sharing adventures on social media from the far-flung corners of the world. 4G roaming is more convenient, generally faster, often cheaper and more secure than typical hotel or public Wi-Fi connections. It makes mobile working easier with superfast download and upload speeds available on the move at a low cost daily rate.
4G 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 a 200MB daily allocation. With a daily rate only charged on the days when the phone is used, customers don’t have to worry about unexpected charges waiting for them when they get home.
Commenting, Vodafone Ireland Consumer Director Marcel de Groot said, “Vodafone 4G is already available to over 80% of people in Ireland so it is excellent news that this superfast mobile experience has been extended abroad and includes our customers’ top five favourite destinations: UK, Spain, France, USA and Portugal. We hope customers have an enjoyable mobile experience when travelling for business or to visit family and friends during the festive season.”
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.
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Further information:
Clodagh O’Hagan, Vodafone Ireland, 087 9084055
Ger McCarthy / Natalie Christie Weber Shandwick, 01 679 8600
Notes for 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.
Service | Usage | Average data size |
| Netflix | 1 Hour | 1GB |
| Sky Sports Mobile TV | 1 Hour | 180MB |
| You Tube | 4 mins | 11MB |
| Radio Streaming | 10 mins | 15MB |
| 15 mins with no video streaming | 5MB | |
| 100 text emails sent/received | 2.5MB | |
| Google Maps | 10 mins | 6MB |
| Spotify | 1 music track | 5MB |
*Please note that examples provided should only be used as a rough guide, as data usage volume can vary by device, by type and by quality of content.
Roaming offers:
Consumer | Business |
€1.99 inc. VAT Add on bundle of 200MB data per day €2.99 inc. VAT Add on bundle of 200MB data per day €4.99 inc VAT (ROW) Call and text from home tariff whilst in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, China, Hong Kong and Egypt (including minutes, texts, add-ons and top up offers) Add on bundle of 200MB data per day | €1.62 ex. VAT Add on bundle of 200MB data per day €2.43 ex. VAT Add on bundle of 200MB data per day €4.06 ex VAT (ROW) Call and text from home tariff whilst in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, China, Hong Kong and Egypt (including minutes, texts, add-ons and top up offers) Add on bundle of 200MB data per day |
Vodafone RED Business
RED Business | RED Business | RED Business |
€40per month All you need to do - Unlimited calls & texts to any network 24 month contract
| €55per month Perfect if you do - Unlimited calls & texts to Ireland & UK 24 month contract | €75per month Bring your business to - Unlimited calls & texts to Ireland & UK 24 month contract |
About Vodafone
Vodafone is Ireland’s leading total communications provider with 2.3 million customers. At 30 September 2014, the company had 2.1 million mobile customers and 267,000 customers of its fixed portfolio.
Vodafone provides a total range of communications solutions including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications to consumers and to small, medium and large businesses. Since 2011, Vodafone has expanded its enterprise division, offering integrated next-generation fixed and mobile solutions in addition to cloud-based platforms, machine to machine services and professional ICT support.
Vodafone Group is one of the world's leading international mobile communications groups with mobile operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 52 more, and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets.
For more information, please visit www.vodafone.ie.