Telecom giant, Vodafone India has partnered with Twitter, real time information network to offer its customers ‘Twitter for Android’ app and mobile.twitter.com free of any mobile charges for three months.

A statement from Vodafone India stated that Twitter will promote the ‘no mobile internet charges’ experience on Vodafone. With an integrated customer experience module, Vodafone and Twitter will ensure seamless and transparent browsing experience by clearly prompting and informing the customer on the applicable charges, especially when they are accessing links via their Twitter timeline and elsewhere on Twitter's network.

Vivek Mathur, Chief Commercial Officer, Vodafone India said, “Our partnership with Twitter and this offering is yet another step in our ongoing endeavour to make mobile internet more fun, smart, engaging and easy.”

Rishi Jaitly, the Market Director for Twitter India, said, “As a real time information network full of links, media, and content, our platform offers the mobile ecosystem novel ways to introduce their subscribers to all the Internet has to offer. We are pleased to partner with Vodafone India to offer its subscribers a unique opportunity to use Twitter to follow the people and organizations they care about.”

In June this month, Vodafone India has slashed the 2G data charges by 80 percent for pre-paid and post-paid customers using  ‘Pay as you Go’ basis. The rates are currently applicable in Karnataka, UP West and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh circles and will be rolled out nationally in a phased manner.