Another Vodafone issue**Resolved**

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There's a VF rep on the site called Lee - hopefully he should catch this as yet another issue.

 

If you search on vodafone you will see his posts and can PM him to hasten things.

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I would have suggested the very same had I not been on a phone presently!

 

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Funnily I was about to swap to voda for data, but after the number of people complaing here changed my mind and went to GiffGaff who I use for calls.

 

Sadly GG were crap for data - but I am now outside the UK for a bit - so will relook upon my return.

 

I should add I did use VF quite a bit in 2008 when they priced roaming calls to match UK calls - which was a brilliant service - but I have not been with them since that ended.

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Hi Bang!,

 

As the cost of using your phone abroad seems to be a deciding factor for you can I ask if you've heard about Vodafone Data Traveller? If not, you can find out more about it here.

 

In addition to this we do of course still offer our Vodafone Passport service. For more information on this please see here.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Kind regards to you both.

 

Lee

 

Web Relations Team

 

Vodafone UK

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Lee.

 

Your Passport service was great in 2009 when it had cancelled the ?75p? fixed charge per call. Since then I have not used it. Its cheaper for me to be called leaving a missed call - then calling back myself.

 

I will check the links you sent, but its really far cheaper just getting a local sim when abroad, as it costs me 10 euros for the country I am in most - and that's about 2-300 local mins, more local texts than I would ever use - and three gig of data which handles my calls back to the UK.

 

We also now just get one sim between us, as one phone can tether to the other - and Estonia probably has the greatest WiFi (or wee-fee as they call it) saturation in the EU.

 

One thing that put me off roaming was being in Transnistria, which is not recognised by the UK, so both phones stopped. Out of curiousity check to see if Transnistria, Abkhazia, or South Ossetia have any roaming facility with VF. It always struck me as funny roaming could have political limitations.

 

Lastly - with the new EU pricing on roaming, it will soon be better to use a roaming phone in the UK as a glovebox/emergency phone for two reasons.

 

1. The phone will work with almost any network, so offering better coverage/greater safety/convenience. (I have been using one for hillwalking for years.)

 

2. The EU lowering the roaming prices in summer is heading for roaming prices that beat non-package UK PAYG pricing. So a roaming phone would be cheaper for occasional use.

 

Checking your links now.

 

Cheers!

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I'd love to be outside the UK at the mo what with all this rain....where are you Bang?....somewhere nice?

 

ims

 

Sorry - I missed your post earlier.

 

I was in Estonia where I have been living recenty, but am in the process of coming back to the UK.

 

However, I am now back, as papers I needed sent never appeared - but having spent much of the last 5 months in the UK rather than just a couple of weeks every now and again.

 

The recession seems to be biting hard under tory austerity, and I am in two minds about whether coming back for keeps/a long while makes sense.