Is Vodafone UA serious about these roaming rates?

[akraus88]

Originally Posted by Gnarfy

Roaming without roam like home costs at least 1200 UAH/month if you use it every day. You can use up to 5GB/day.

So isn't that the best way to go, to NOT activate the ROAM LIKE HOME? What do you gain with the ROAM LIKE HOME, only for calls, right?

[lover08]

WITH ROAM LIKE HOME
RED S will be 120 UAH total - gives you 500 MB and extra 500 MB costs 10 UAH up to 10 times possible
RED M will be 200 UAH total - gives you 2GB and extra 500 MB costs 10 UAH up to 10 times possible
RED L will be 360 UAH total - gives you 5GB and extra 500 MB costs 10 UAH up to 10 times possible

WITHOUT ROAM LIKE HOME
Your will be charged anyway RED S 30 UAH or RED M 50 UAH or RED L 90 UAH and you get no internet outside of Ukraine
So example you can be on RED S it is 30 UAH you receive nothing and then if you use it in Roam Like home countries it charges you 30 UAH only on day you use it (from first usage till 23:59 the same day Ukrainian time) and you get nothing but you can use internet 10 UAH per 500 MB max. 10 times in one day so up to 5GB)

You can always change your plans you can try few days without feel like home monthly and if you don't like to activate feel like home monthly

This is very simple to use this sim, I give online portal where you can switch Plans etc. it is even in English

Alex

[akraus88]

Originally Posted by lover08

WITH ROAM LIKE HOME
RED S will be 120 UAH total - gives you 500 MB and extra 500 MB costs 10 UAH up to 10 times possible
RED M will be 200 UAH total - gives you 2GB and extra 500 MB costs 10 UAH up to 10 times possible
RED L will be 360 UAH total - gives you 5GB and extra 500 MB costs 10 UAH up to 10 times possible

WITHOUT ROAM LIKE HOME
Your will be charged anyway RED S 30 UAH or RED M 50 UAH or RED L 90 UAH and you get no internet outside of Ukraine
So example you can be on RED S it is 30 UAH you receive nothing and then if you use it in Roam Like home countries it charges you 30 UAH only on day you use it (from first usage till 23:59 the same day Ukrainian time) and you get nothing but you can use internet 10 UAH per 500 MB max. 10 times in one day so up to 5GB)

You can always change your plans you can try few days without feel like home monthly and if you don't like to activate feel like home monthly

This is very simple to use this sim, I give online portal where you can switch Plans etc. it is even in English

Alex

still a little confused, so please answer me the following:

If I want to be able to use AS MUCH DATA as I want (of course paying for it) I would need to NOT sign up for ROAM LIKE HOME, otherwise my data will be capped at maximum of 10GB. per 30 days. Am I correct?

[lover08]

Max. possible data available is:

You can be on RED S (on Vodafone you should anyway be on one of the plans)
30 UAH
don't activate Feel Like Home
and each time you surf it will deduct 30 UAH daily fee and internet will be charged 10 UAH per 500 MB with cap 10 times a day (5GB a day)

So example Monday you started to use Internet it deducts 30 UAH with first usage of the day and 10 UAH per each 500 MB till 10 times and then it cap 8 kb/s till next day

[akraus88]

Originally Posted by lover08

Max. possible data available is:

You can be on RED S (on Vodafone you should anyway be on one of the plans)
30 UAH
don't activate Feel Like Home
and each time you surf it will deduct 30 UAH daily fee and internet will be charged 10 UAH per 500 MB with cap 10 times a day (5GB a day)

So example Monday you started to use Internet it deducts 30 UAH with first usage of the day and 10 UAH per each 500 MB till 10 times and then it cap 8 kb/s till next day

Thanks Alex.

[Motel75]

So far, I've got my SIM (MTS branded, not Vodafone) up and running, and topped up using my German PayPal account with ding.com for what I consider an acceptable surcharge (about 15 percent). Then I added RED L followed by Roam Like Home - and set network selection to manual and chose Vodafone.de. I'm in Germany today, but will be in NL tomorrow and GB the day after that, so I'll hopefully be able to test all three.

One curious thing is that the online account you can set up is still only via mts.ua, not vodafone.ua.

[wolfbln]

Originally Posted by Motel75

One curious thing is that the online account you can set up is still only via mts.ua, not vodafone.ua.

This SIM is the most curious product i've seen so far. I'm using it too right now. Italy, Turkey, Germany and Malta are confirmed. So you can be confident about NL and UK.

I just got an SMS message that France (probably on SFR) will be added on 1st of April. This is now mentioned on their website too. But as far I understand only for 7 days instead of the usual 30.

Vodafone UA is MTS (MTC in Russian) in disguise. And having a Russian mother is not so popular in some parts of the country right now. So they adopted the Vodafone brand. But it's MTS after all and all recharges made for MTS work on Vodafone UA too.

Another update: My monthly "roam like home package" ended today and I got a message in Ukrainian that even Google Translate could not understand. I loaded some UAH on the SIM before and could easily extend the roaming option by *600# for another month. This was confirmed instantly. At least, I guess, as Google is not much better in Ukrainian than I am

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by Motel75

I'm in Germany today, but will be in NL tomorrow and GB the day after that, so I'll hopefully be able to test all three.
One curious thing is that the online account you can set up is still only via mts.ua, not vodafone.ua.

Thank you both for the updates. While I don't see myself needing this info in the near future,
I believe there are many lurkers who are very fascinated by this helpful information.

Originally Posted by wolfbln

This SIM is the most curious product i've seen so far. I'm using it too right now. Italy, Turkey, Germany and Malta are confirmed. So you can be confident about NL and UK.

I just got an SMS message that France (probably on SFR) will be added on 1st of April. This is now mentioned on their website too. But as far I understand only for 7 days instead of the usual 30.

Vodafone UA is MTS (MTC in Russian) in disguise. And having a Russian mother is not so popular in some parts of the country right now. So they adopted the Vodafone brand. But it's MTS after all and all recharges made for MTS work on Vodafone UA too.

Another update: My monthly "roam like home package" ended today and I got a message in Ukrainian that even Google Translate could not understand. I loaded some UAH on the SIM before and could easily extend the roaming option by *600# for another month. This was confirmed instantly. At least, I guess, as Google is not much better in Ukrainian than I am

I look forward for more reports in the future from both of you.

[lover08]

some update:
from 1st April terms will be changed.
France will be added. But the deal feel like home will be valid for 7 days (not for 30 days) in countries included in the deal. They also told that will change tariff rates for deal countries and they will add more countries to this deal in near future
New update will be available on 1st April

[wolfbln]

Oooh ooh: This seems to be a price hike in sight. It really was too good to be true to stay for very long.