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Vodafone Brings Prices In Line With Competition

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Following in the footsteps of o2 and T-Mobile’s July price rises, Vodaone have announced their call charge revision plans for next month.

Call charges go up from 15p to 20p per minute for Pay As You Talk people, whilst non-geographic 0871 numbers go up from 25p to 35p per minute. The non-geographic 0870 call charges are also being increased to 20p from 15p come September.

The losses that the European Commission roaming caps and Ofcom rulings are forcing the carriers to incur are being recouped elsewhere…from you.

All the more reason to do our survey to see whether you could save money by changing tariffs!

Vodafone Acquires 70% Stake In Ghana Telecom

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Vodafone has bought up a controlling stake in Ghana Telecom in a bid to craft an empire in the emergent African market. Seventy percent of the West African country’s third largest mobile service provider and number one in landline communications has been acquired from the Ghanaian government at a cost of £450 million.

With the number of mobile phone users in Ghana increasing at a rate of 50% over last year and only 33% currently owning a phone, Vodafone are looking to capitalise on new opportunities whilst Western Europe is on a downturn. Already having large stakes in telecoms networks in South Africa, Kenya and Egypt, Vodafone is wise to focus on offering a viable alternative in nations whose landline infrastructure is poor.

It isn’t purely exploitative, as Vodafone’s departing CEO Arun Sarin spoke of their commitment to invest over £250 million on improving Ghana Telecom: “Ghana is one of the most attractive markets in Africa, I expect that our investment will generate substantial benefits for Vodafone and for the Ghanaian economy and we are delighted that we will be working in partnership with the government of Ghana.”

Detractors are unimpressed with their business decision to avoid dealing with the market leader MTN, currently the network of choice for 50% of Ghana’s users. However, the prohibitive cost and the circling of other potential buyers has said to have dissuaded Vodafone from considering the firm.

Good news all round for the ailing Ghana Telecom, with their development of broadband installation in full swing and the weight of Vodafone behind them, they could become the jewel in the crown of the company’s African expansion plans.

Vodafone adds ‘Unlimited’ Internet to all Price Plans, for Free

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If you thought 3’s mobile broadband offer was generous, then prepare to have your world rocked. Today Vodafone changed the structure of their price plan to include mobile internet access and email as an integral part of all their monthly price plans. Don’t go crazy with your streaming though; the offer is subject to a fair usage policy of 500MB per month.

No longer will you need to shell out an extra £7.50 for an additional internet bundle. Vodafone price plans start at £25. If you choose a plan priced £40 or higher then, for the first time, you’ll have the choice of unlimited texts, unlimited landline calls or unlimited Vodafone to Vodafone calls.

Source: Vodafone

Vodafone’s Customer Service Inhand

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Vodafone will soon be rolling out their new customer service which will be featured on the handset itself. This now means that customers have access to promotions and tutorials, step by step guides on various mobile related topics.

SNAPin SelfService will be the name of this new service and recent trials in the UK and Spain have proved the service successful. We should see this new service rolled out later this year.

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Omio Updates

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Today is Omio’s first official site update announcement! We’ve been working hard over the last few weeks on some great new features.

Compare Phones

I’m really pleased to announce “compare phones“. It’s a feature that we have wanted for a while and lots of you have asked for so here it is. You can compare up to 4 phones at once in a side-by-side comparison of features and specifications. We’ve tried to go into as much detail as possible allowing you to compare the small details such as which audio formats the phone plays as well. To select phones for comparison either go to the Phone Finder or go directly to the Compare Phones

3 Mobile Direct Shop

We’ve now added our latest phone deals feed from 3 Mobile. You can now search for deals that can be purchased directly from the 3 Store. Over the next month we will be adding more direct to network shops such as Vodafone and Orange.

Have a look around and let us know what you think!