Vodafone announces new tariff on STD calls

Patna: Vodafone Essar, one of India's leading cellular services providers, announced its new base STD call rate of only Re1 per minute. all new and old prepaid customers can avail this new base tariff, without the purchase of any voucher or bonus card and irrespective of their present plan.

In addition, Vodafone has also introduced two new Bonus Cards - Regional STD Bonus Card and All India STD Bonus Card for its prepaid customers in Bihar and Jharkhand. Both cards will enable customers to make STD calls at 50 paise per minute.

The Regional STD Bonus Card is priced at Rs24 and subscribers can make STD calls to the neighboring states of Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Assam and the North East at 50 paise per minute. The All India STD Bonus Card is priced at Rs49 and with this card subscribers can make STD calls to any phone in India at 50 paise per minute. Both Bonus Cards have a validity of 30 days.

Vodafone Essar is the Indian subsidiary of Vodafone Group and commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellular license for Mumbai. The company now has operations across the country with over 80.87 million customers.

Over the years, Vodafone Essar, under the Hutch brand, has been named the 'Most Respected Telecom Company', the 'Best Mobile Service in the country' and the 'Most Creative and Most Effective Advertiser of the Year'.

Vodafone is the world's leading international mobile communications group with approximately 315 million proportionate customers as on 30 June 2009. Vodafone currently has equity interests in 31 countries across five continents and around 40 partner networks worldwide.

The Essar Group is a diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics, and Projects. Essar employs more than 50,000 people across offices in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.