Pan-European GPRS Roaming from Vodafone

Vodafone has said that it is the first mobile operator to offer commercial GPRS roaming across Europe. Vodafone customers in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK will be able to access their Vodafone services over GPRS in a growing number of destinations when travelling in Europe. Vodafone says that it intends to progressively expand GPRS roaming to cover other networks, including all remaining European Vodafone operators and partner networks by the end of the year.

Vodafone customers travelling abroad access their GPRS services in exactly the same way as they do at home. There is no requirement for customers to input additional service access codes to use their services.

Thomas Geitner, Chief Executive, Global Products and Services, Vodafone, said: "Vodafone customers are the first to benefit from fast and easy access to their data services across a large part of Europe. Our travelling customers will now be able to access their data services as easily as they do at home. This means greater productivity and ease of use for our customers and the ability to stay in touch with colleagues, friends and family whilst travelling. 'Our ability to deliver commercial GPRS roaming in Europe through the Vodafone footprint will unlock our corporate customers' requirement for access to data services whilst travelling, which will generate new data roaming revenue."

Posted to the site on 25th March 2002