Vodacom Tanzania customers can expect huge roaming savings when travelling to nine African countries, including Rwanda, where Vodacom and its partners operate. The service was launched yesterday. The countries include South Africa (Vodacom), Mozambique (Vodacom), Lesotho (Vodacom), DRC Congo (Vodacom), Ghana (Vodafone), Kenya (Safaricom), Rwanda (MTN), Uganda (MTN), and (UTL), and Burundi (UCOM).Customers will be able to receive free incoming calls, free incoming SMS, lower calls and data rates while roaming on all the nine networks.“We know that people want to remain connected at an affordable rate whether they are at home or on holiday in South Africa or travelling for work in Ghana and that nobody likes the headache of worrying about roaming bills,” Vodacom Tanzania’s Managing Director, Rene Meza said in a press statement sent to the Business Times.“With the solution launched, yesterday, the operator wants to give customers peace of mind when travelling. Data roaming has been and still is an expensive affair for most operators and, today, we are so proud to reduce substantially, together with voice and SMS, our data roaming charges for our customers travelling in any of our African family,” Meza explained.The service will benefit both Vodacom subscribers on post-paid and pre-paid. Vodacom is Tanzania’s leading cellular network company.
