Vodafone launches first commercial European GPRS roaming service - Network Developments - Brief Article

Mobile Internet, The, April, 2002

Vodafone Group PLC announces it is the first mobile operator to offer commercial GPRS roaming across Europe. Vodafone customers in 12 countries including 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 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 will be billed on a volume basis for accessing their data services over GPRS whilst roaming in Europe. GPRS is a packet switched based service, so customers only pay for the amount of data they download and send, rather than the amount of time they spend accessing their services.

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