Vodafone, Digicel Team

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Vodafone and Digicel have announced today a partnership agreement to offer new roaming capabilities across Digicel's markets in the Caribbean and Bermuda and Vodafone's global network. The agreement also extends to Digicel's sister operation in Samoa.

In addition, under the terms of the agreement Vodafone and Digicel will become preferred roaming partners offering customers a seamless world-class mobile experience whilst they travel on each others' network.

Both Vodafone and Digicel will market co-branded roaming capabilities, offering pre-paid and post-paid customers easy access to their voice mail and customer service using their standard short codes, as well as better value for both voice and data services. With some variation from market to market, initial services available will include Voice and GPRS Roaming services with plans in place to shortly include Top Up offerings.

For Digicel, which also has roaming agreements with 245 partners in 130 countries around the world, the partnership allows the company to expand the number of countries where it offers pre-paid roaming.

The companies will aim to work together to jointly develop innovative products and services as well as purchase handsets, creating cost benefits, greater value and more solutions for customers. Vodafone and Digicel will co-operate in marketing and delivering mobile services to multi-national corporate customers.

Matthias Jungemann, Partner Markets Director at Vodafone, said, "Our agreement with Digicel means that Vodafone customers can now access their services while travelling across the Caribbean. No other mobile operator can offer the kind of global footprint Vodafone now has for easy to use, great value roaming services. Including Digicel, Vodafone's branded roaming services will be now available in 81 countries.

Digicel Group