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Vodafone announces special Diwali offer for its customers

07 November 2007

Mumbai, November 07, 2007:Vodafone Essar, one of India's leading telecom service providers, has announced exciting offers for its customers in Mumbai on the special occasion of Diwali. Customers can avail of gifts throughout the month of November.

The highlights of the offer:

  • Assured gift on new prepaid and postpaid activations
  • Prepaid customers get talktime of Rs 501 on recharging with Rs 501 with zero days validity
  • Postpaid customers get an assured gift on paying their bills by the due date

All customers who avail of the above mentioned offers and prepaid customers who recharge for Rs.99/- will be sent a contest question and the winners will be chosen from a Lucky Draw in case of multiple correct answers. The winners stand a chance to win talktime worth up to Rs.1 Lakh.

The Lucky Draw prizes are:

  • Talktime of Rs.100 – 720 prizes a day.
  • Talktime of Rs.1000 –12 prizes a day.
  • Talktime of Rs.10000 – 1 prize a day
  • Talktime of Rs.100,000 – 4 weekly prizes

About Vodafone Essar Limited

Vodafone Essar in India is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc and commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellular licence for Mumbai. Vodafone Essar now has operations in 16 circles covering 86% of India’s mobile customer base, with over 35.6 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 company. It now has operations in 25 countries across 5 continents and 40 partner networks with over 200 million customers worldwide. Vodafone has partnered with the Essar Group as its principal joint venture partner for the Indian market.

The Essar Group is a diversified business corporation with interests spanning the manufacturing and service sectors like Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping & Logistics and Construction. The Group has an asset base of over Rs.400 billion (US$ 10 billion) and employs over 20,000 people.

*Figures from Cellular Operators Association of India, September 30, 2007.

For more information, please contact:

Merrin Netto John/ Samridhi Sharma
Genesis Burson-Marsteller
Vodafone: +91 98202 99325/9819423875
email: merrin.john@bm.com
samridhi.sharma@gmail.com