Vodafone cuts mobile roaming prices

Vodafone customers wanting to take their mobile data devices to Australia will get a new rate from today as its data roaming prices in Australia will drop permanently from $10/MB to $5/MB.

Vodafone points out that Telecom customers in Australia pay $8/MB and 2Degrees customers pay "a whopping" $30/MB. Customers will also be able to better monitor their usage while travelling overseas, with notifications send from Vodafone at 2MB, 5MB and 10MB of data.

Vodafone has launched New Zealand's first International TXT add-on for its Supa Prepay customers. The initiative is aimed at international students, travellers and long distance relationshippers and offers a bundle of 100 TXTs to 30 nations for only $8 per month, which works out at 8c per TXT. The deal includes destinations such as Australia, UK, USA, Japan, South Korea, India and China.

Supa Prepay customers who top up by $20 a month will get 100 free minutes of weekend calling to any Vodafone New Zealand mobile, and any landline in the country.

2degrees this morning said that its mobile pricing plans will remain the same after the GST increase on October 1st.