The TPG Telecom company’s customers will receive free data services over the weekend as part of an apology for the outage that plagued the telco’s mobile network earlier this month.
Vodafone customers will receive free data services this weekend, with the telco calling it a « goodwill » gesture in the aftermath of a nationwide network outage experienced earlier this month. « As you are aware, we recently experienced an issue which disrupted our 4G mobile services, » a text message sent to customers on Thursday said. « We’re sorry for the impact this caused you and as a gesture of goodwill, we’re offering free data services to customers this weekend. » The free data will begin on Saturday,24 April at 12:01am AEST and end on Sunday,25 April at 11:59pm AEST. It will be available on a customer’s mobile phone plan, mobile broadband plan, or prepaid service. With many customers already signed up to plans with lots of data, Vodafone said the free data customers will receive this weekend could be used at unrestricted speeds.