And Vodafone Ireland has just cut back their Roaming countries outside Europe to just a handful. Arbitrarily, without giving anybody notice... Well, at least I didn't get notice for either my main or spare voda.ie SIMs.
If you were on a Vodafone Now! plan, it seems you have been converted to passport, whether you like it or not.
The solution I have found is to use the new Russian Beeline Roaming tariff in 260 countries. Usage is 'unlimited', after 7MB from the 3G networks you are throttled to 16KBps for the rest of your 'unlimited' 24hrs. Cost is six euros (249 Rubles) per 24 hr period.
Details here, in Russian (what we do without Google Translate?)
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