Vodafone UK is removing 'roaming' charges for pay as you go and pay monthly customers from 1st June, although they'll be back in place again on 1st September 2009. It means that Vodafone UK customers will be able to talk, text and send picture messages from over 35 European countries for the same price as at home. The company is also cutting the cost of some international calls from the UK to other countries.
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Telefónica Europe, O2’s parent company, has published its Q1 2009 results today. In the UK, contract churn is at its lowest ever. 286,267 contract customers were added in the first three months of 2009 – up 18.4% year-on-year – which meant O2 UK ended the quarter with 42.6% of its customer base on ‘pay monthly’ contracts. However, the network also lost 144,514 prepay customers, leaving it with 141,753 total net mobile additions in the first quarter.
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