Customers in Chennai and Tamil Nadu can avail of these offers from 25 December 2007 - 2 January, 2008
Chennai, December 31, 2007: Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular service providers has announced two special prepaid recharge offers for its customers in Chennai and Tamil Nadu, to celebrate the festive season.
The first option, RC 2008, offers customers validity of one year and benefits worth Rs. 2008 by recharging for the same amount. The benefits include, talk time of Rs. 472 and a free recharge bonus card worth Rs 1176 with 12 months validity. This bonus card offers Vodafone to Vodafone local calls at the rate at Rs. 0.10/minute and mobile to mobile local call rate at Rs. 0.49/minute. Vodafone to Vodafone STD call rates and mobile to mobile STD call rates are Re. 1/minute and Rs. 1.50/minute respectively. Along with the above, the customer also gets free caller tune rental worth Rs. 360 for 12 months.
With the second option, RC 208, customers can enjoy full talk time on electronic top-up for Rs. 208.
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 38.5 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, November 30, 2007.
For more information, contact:
Priyanka Jayashankar/ Rajbir Sidhu
Genesis Burson-Marsteller
Vodafone mobile no.: 9884065558/9884065152
email: priyanka.jayashankar@bm.com / rajbir.sidhu@bm.com