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Originally Posted by MATHA531
But, maybe I'm just dense, what does this have to do with no roaming fees on Vodafone UK...this would only affect who was receiving the call, So if your girlfriend was on vodafone UK and taking advantage of the summer promotion, even under the terms of the original Vodafone Passport the total charge to the receiving party would only be 75p....or did you use a callback service to make the call but even then, the fee under the rules for vodafone passport would be 75p so I'm just wondering just how much did the summer promotion cost vodafone in this case.....
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During the summer promotion Vodafone UK PAYG customers are not charged a single penny for receiving calls in whole Europe, Australia and New Zealand. So my girlfriend, who is roaming with my Vodafone UK PAYG SIM in Switzerland doesn't pay anything for receiving calls. Only the calling party pays, in that case me. So the total income of Vodafone when I call her now is ~ GBP 0.05/min and I hardly believe these 5 pence will cover the rates, which the foreign network operator charges to Vodafone. Just for comparsion: German operators usually charge € 0.69/min for incoming calls in Switzerland, sure that rate includes a giant margin, but I'm sure Swiss operators will receive more than € 0.06/min from those € 0.69/min.
And of course whenever my girlfriend or I need to place outgoing calls, we use callback through Betmax' Java midlet (
http://gsm.voipbuster.com).