Idea has announced 25% discount on international roaming for its postpaid subscribers across 12 countries – UAE, USA, Singapore, UK, Thailand, China, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Italy. This offer is valid from 15th April to 14th July 2011.
This discount includes Incoming Calls, Outgoing Calls, SMS and GPRS. The discounts are available only on Idea’s preferred network provider (list is available in IDEA’s website, under travel and roaming option in personal) in these countries.
The discount rates for the countries are as follows:
| Country | Outgoing call to India (Home) (Rs. per minute) | Outgoing call in Visited Country (National) (Rs. per minute) | Outgoing Call International (except to India)(Rs. per minute) | Incoming Calls(Rs. per minute) | Outgoing SMS (Rs. per SMS) | GPRS (Rs. per 10kb) |
| SINGAPORE | 71 | 26 | 75 | 38 | 11 | 3.75 |
| THAILAND, SRI LANKA |
86 | 26 | 94 | 38 | 11 | 3.75 |
| USA, GERMANY | 101 | 53 | 109 | 53 | 11 | 3.75 |
| CHINA | 120 | 26 | 128 | 30 | 11 | 3.75 |
| UAE, UK, ITALY HONG KONG |
124 | 34 | 139 | 68 | 11 | 3.75 |
| FRANCE, SWITZERLAND | 180 | 83 | 180 | 83 | 11 | 3.75 |
They also offer Cleartrip vouchers worth Rs 4,000 for their subscribers that include Rs. 2,000 off on international hotel bookings, Rs.1,500 on international round trip flights, and Rs. 500 on domestic round trip flights.
Subscribers need to SMS ‘ACT CLT’ to 12345 to get the voucher code which could be used while booking through Cleartrip.