New Vodafone Aussie Promo

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#17198 16-Nov-2007 16:51

Pretty good deal if you call AUssie...

From now until the end of March 08, you can call any Aussie landline for 60 minutes and pay a capped rate of $2, 24/7. Can't see this on the Voda website yet but i got a text about it yesterday.

The good news is, this does include YouChoose customers.

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#95537 16-Nov-2007 17:20

Ahh excellent, This will be well used. calling a mobile in Australia is rather expensive otherwise.

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#95540 16-Nov-2007 17:43

Note this is only for Aussie LANDLINES, not mobiles.

Some customers may get caught out here so be careful.

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#95541 16-Nov-2007 17:50

Oh,,,,, Yes I bet a lot will be caught out as the last promo was "all inclusive".

Even I did not see the word "landline" you posted while viewing from my PDA. (trying to use Opera at 50% zoom is a bad idea!)

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#95543 16-Nov-2007 17:59

Funny how it's cheaper to call an aussie landline then a NZ landline :)

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#95544 16-Nov-2007 18:06

simon14: Funny how it's cheaper to call an aussie landline then a NZ landline :)

But this is the case with Vodafone all the time - it's only 49c per minute to call a mobile or landline in Australia on virtually all plans yet most people are paying a lot more than this for calls inside NZ.

If I go over my included minutes and need to ring home I ring my Melbourne number hooked up to my Asterisk PBX at home as it's cheaper! :-)

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#95546 16-Nov-2007 18:42

LOL! It's been like that for quite some years now... shows the cozy duopoly well that is currently abusing the fact!

I'm setting up another thin-client as an Asterisk server this weekend hopefully so will go VoIP crazy! just gotta try and find an 80GB hard drive which is getting difficult and finish this 5110 GSM- PSTN voice gateway.

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#95691 17-Nov-2007 16:55

Still cant see anything on the website so called 777 to check if my Mega plan is included - cool it is.
Doesn't appy to TalkZone though. Not sure how much training the agent had because she had to put me on hold twice to check the details!

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#96528 23-Nov-2007 09:30

The link is there now
https://www.vodafone.co.nz/specials-promos/2-for-60-minutes.jsp

...so you can call landlines in Australia, the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, India, Malaysia and the Philippines. You can call ANY time of day or night, weekday or weekend and you'll only pay $2 for up to 60 minutes.

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#96535 23-Nov-2007 10:23

Yea, saw that there this morning!

Good stuff Voda :)

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#96540 23-Nov-2007 10:58

Honestly, I believe there is no reason other than Vodafone trying to "catch users out", by not including mobiles for countries like USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc...

There is no difference in "charges" (since it's mobile users paying to receive a call) in these countries! And it's sometimes almost impossible to tell a mobile number apart from a landline number (cause users don't care)!