Vodafone Partners With Qantas

The telco said its customers with $5 Roaming on Red plans can roam in New Zealand with no extra charge until December 1.

“That’s the whole reason why we’re doing this trial for 12 months: To really understand how the customers are actually taking it on and how the customers are using it, and we want to see how the traffic goes”, Chee said.

More countries to follow with free roaming? According to Ms. Chee, in the coming year Vodafone may consider expanding the free roaming offer in few of the 52 countries where the company has a strong network. reports ZDNet.

Travel between Australia and neighboring New Zealand is frequent, and over 600,000 New Zealand born residents now live in Australia.

“It takes a lot of work to build these propositions”, said Smyth “but we’ll keep looking for these innovations”.

“Good leadership means recognising when it is right to change decisions because it is the right thing for our customers”.

“Telstra has worked hard at removing the pain point of worldwide roaming charges with the introduction of Travel Passes that make using a mobile overseas more affordable and predictable”.

Meanwhile, Vodafone will offer 15,000 Qantas frequent flyer points to its customers when they connect, renew or upgrade their Qantas Red plans, and offer duty-free prepaid phones and SIMs on some global flights flying into Australia.

The announcement from Vodafone came off the back of more worldwide deal-making for the telco today, with news that it has partnered with Qantas to offer frequent flyers rewards for switching providers.

Businesses that are members of Aquire, Qantas’s business rewards program, are also able to earn Aquire Points when signing up to Qantas Business Red plans with Vodafone.

Arrive in NZ, switch on your Vodafone mobile phone and it’ll be no different to being in Australia, with your Aussie plan’s full serve of data, voice and SMS allowance available for free.

Vodafone advantages Australian travellers crossing the Tasman.

More details on the deal can be found on the Qantas website.