Vodafone Roaming Services: Your global partner in wholesale roaming
Helping your travellers, applications and things to roam the world
We manage the global roaming connectivity for Vodafone and other businesses. We ensure over 750 million mobile customers and devices can confidently connect in virtually every country of the world. More than 90 mobile operators and other businesses, including some of the world's top players,use our roaming services.
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Our offering
Tailored, global connectivity solutions
Sponsored Roaming
Instant global outbound roaming footprint for mobile operators & MVNOs.
Roaming Hub
Enhance your outbound & inbound roaming footprint (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G).
Professional Services
Tailored consultancy, managed wholesale services (full / partial outsourcing).? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??
Maritime Mobility
Near-shore broadband data connectivity for vessel fleets.
Travel Mobility
White-label connectivity for travellers (traditional SIM, eSIM & SoftSIM solutions).
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Why Vodafone Roaming Services?
90+ communications providers in 60+ countries leverage Vodafone’s vast expertise, commercial scale & central capabilities
Truly global connectivity
Signalling & IPX connectivity with >700 networks; GSM, GPRS, 3G & CAMEL in >210, 4G in >180, 5G in >15 destinations
Relentless quality focus
Voice & data speeds above GSMA standards; automated testing in >210 destinations; >90% of roaming traffic under real time monitoring
Trusted B2B partner
B2B solutions since 2005; proven, operator-grade platforms; one-stop shopping; member of Vodafone Group
Commercial scale
Trading traffic of >50 operators with our roaming partners; >280 central discount negotiations p.a., central financial settlement & counter fraud management
Efficient infrastructure
End-to-end capabilities; fully virtualised platforms; highly efficient workflows, real time big data analytics; large-scale AI deployment
Industry expertise
>180 roaming experts; recognised global influencers & drivers of industry standards; winner of numerous industry awards & recognitions
News & insights
Explore company news, analyst views, whitepapers, events & webinars
Kaleido Intelligence: Vodafone is a global leader and champion
In the July 2020 vendor benchmarking, Vodafone was named the global industry leader in Sponsored Roaming and a champion in 5 other business segments
We have a mission: We connect away from home
We strive to excel in roaming to grow value for our customers and for Vodafone.
In the early days of roaming, each Vodafone market established and maintained its own bilateral relationships with its roaming partners. In 2005, we started overcoming Vodafone’s fragmented trading position by centrally coordinating discount deals. In 2009, Vodafone Roaming Services was launched in Luxembourg, unitingVodafone’s local wholesale roaming capabilities into a global, end-to-end business unit.
We are roaming pioneers since day one
| 1991 | Vodafone and Telecom Finland make the world’s first international roaming call |
| 1992 | Vodafone and Telecom Finland sign the world’s first international GSM roaming agreement |
| 2001 | The world’s first 3G roaming call between Spain and Japan |
| Launch of the first pan-European roaming tariff (Eurocall) | |
| 2002 | Launch of the world’s first international prepay top-up |
| Launch of the first commercial European GPRS roaming services | |
| 2005 | Vodafone closes its first group wholesale roaming deal |
| Launch of the first Roam-Like-At-Home tariff (Vodafone Passport) | |
| 2009 | Foundation and go-live of Vodafone Roaming Services in Luxembourg |
| 2013 | Vodafone starts rolling out 4G roaming between 4 countries |
| Vodafone completes the centralisation of its >6,500 roaming relationships | |
| 2014 | The GSMA adopts Vodafone’s simplified way of testing new service openings |
| Telecoms.com award for its unique central wholesale roaming services with fully integrated business processes | |
| 2015 | GSMA award for our Sponsored Roaming service |
| Global Telecoms Business award for being first at centralising the roaming traffic steering of 17 Vodafone networks | |
| Telecoms.com award for accelerated 4G roaming rollout | |
| 2016 | Global Telecoms Business awards for our accelerated 4G roaming rollout, quality commitment and drive to continuously increase data speeds |
| 2017 | Ovum names Vodafone as the leader in 4G roaming, offering significantly more 4G roaming destinations to its customers than any other operator |
| Global Telecoms Business award for best care for roamers | |
| 2019 | Vodafone launches 5G roaming across 5 markets |
| 2020 | Kaleido Intelligence ranks Vodafone as the industry lead in Sponsored Roaming |