Is Vodafone UA serious about these roaming rates?

[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.

[akraus88]

Originally Posted by 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

I still don't see a reason why I should activate the plan ROAM LIKE HOME. If they charge 10 UAH for 500 MB. in all ROAM LIKE HOME countries. I assume this will remain, only the RED S,M, and L plans will now be only 7 days for roaming, correct?

[wolfbln]

Originally Posted by akraus88

I still don't see a reason why I should activate the plan ROAM LIKE HOME. If they charge 10 UAH for 500 MB. in all ROAM LIKE HOME countries. I assume this will remain, only the RED S,M, and L plans will now be only 7 days for roaming, correct?

They haven't published the new rates yet. For understanding the CURRENT rates, check http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Euro0

There are still good reasons to activate the "roam like home" monthly option if using it for more than 2 or 3 days. The other rate (with "roam like home" disabled) is referred to a day and comes with a daily UAH 30 service fee for roaming and their standard data rate (UAH 10/ 500 MB) is charged by day too.

If you use for example 2 GB in a month of "permanent roaming" without the "roam like home", you'll pay UAH 30 for the domestic S pack plus 30 x 30 UAH daily fee plus 30 x 10 UAH for up to 500 MB per day. That's in total UAH 1230 or 40€ and really not worth it. Of course, it's a totally different story, when you use 500 MB per day, that's 15 GB in a month as the total price remains the same.

On the current "roam like home" monthly option our 2 GB per month is UAH 30 for the domestic pack, UAH 90 for the roaming add-on and UAH 30 for overuse = UAH 150 or 5€.

So the calculation is very different depending on usage and time. We'll have to wait and see, if they simply change the monthly option to a weekly or if they change rates too.

Assuming they'd just take the current monthly add-on of UAH 90 and make it to a weekly add-on of UAH 90, our example of 2 GB in a month will be (30 + 4.3x90) around UAH 420 or 14€. This is still good for roaming, but not for permanent use as a "domestic solution".