Vodafone Egypt announces new preferential roaming rates for Saudi Arabia and UAE |
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Roaming agreements offer more than 50% discount on roaming rates to VodafoneVodafone
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Richard Daly: "The agreements support our strategy to be the first choice for international travellers"
Thursday, 7th August: Vodafone EgyptVodafone Egypt
announces today new roaming agreements with STCSTC in Saudi Arabia and dudu in the UAE. The new agreements provide Vodafone EgyptVodafone Egypt's customers with the lowest roaming prices and a world class roaming service while roaming in Saudi Arabia and UAE.
The attraction for VodafoneVodafone in forming these agreements in the region was the strength and positive image of the three regional operators within the Arab market.
The agreements have enabled VodafoneVodafone to create a new Arab Region Zone in their World Plus Plan which offers discounted rates of more than 50% when roaming on STCSTC or dudu, versus roaming on other operators' networks. For example, both post-paid and pre-paid customers can now make calls back to Egypt for 7LE while roaming on dudu in the UAE, a gigantic decrease from the previous rate of 18LE.
Furthermore, the three operators guarantee optimum standards in terms of network coverage and performance.
This new Arab Region Zone is a natural extension of the continuous enhancements that VodafoneVodafone has been making to its Vodafone World Plus Plan to ensure that it offers customers simple and transparent roaming rates. VodafoneVodafone has always offered preferential rates while roaming on the VodafoneVodafone networks across Europe; now, with their new Arab Region Zone, VodafoneVodafone customers will enjoy preferential roaming rates in the Arab Region as well.
Vodafone EgyptVodafone Egypt was keen to create the new Arab Region Zone during August - before the "Omra" and "Hajj" seasons - so VodafoneVodafone roamers can benefit from the new competitive prices enabling customers to stay connected with their families and friends during their spiritual trips. The same goes for VodafoneVodafone customers who travel to the UAE and Saudi Arabia throughout the year for different purposes such as tourism, shopping or business trips.
"These agreements support our strategy to be the first choice for international travellers" commented Richard Daly, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone EgyptVodafone Egypt.
Amr Abdallah, Chief Business Officer of Vodafone EgyptVodafone Egypt also highlighted that "VodafoneVodafone is entering into more agreements for preferential roaming rates with other Arab operators over the coming months, resulting in more benefits for roaming customers in the region".
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http://www.zain.com/muse/obj/lang.default/portal.view/content/Media%20centre/Press%20releases/Africa%20re-brand.
After Zain took the lead in such idea it was followed with a similar concept between Etisalat operators in UAE, KSA & Egypt, and then Vodafone responded to such alliances, so what's next for mobinil !!? [Report Abuse | Email to a Friend | Reply to this Comment]