Radius Residential Care

Radius Residential Care extends contract with Vodafone

Fixed line and broadband added to mobile phone contract

Radius Residential Care, part of the Radius Health Group, has extended its contract with Vodafone from a mobile-only service to include both fixed line voice and broadband connections.

Radius Residential Care is the third largest aged care provider in New Zealand with 22 rest homes scattered around New Zealand and communication between each facility and head office in Auckland is vital, says chief executive Brien Cree.

“When reviewing our telecommunications Vodafone stood out from the rest by offering us flexibility and a tailored package that suited our business operation best” says Cree.

“Most of our calling is between head office and the residential facilities so Vodafone built a package around that calling profile to suit our business.”

Cree says Radius Residential Care has around 60 to 70 mobile users already with Vodafone and the company will add both land line and broadband services as well.
“That’s probably another 140 lines. From there we’ll look at our hosting and online services next year with a view to moving those over to Vodafone as well.”

Cree says Vodafone’s team was open to a conversation about how Radius works, instead of trying to shoe-horn the company into a “one size fits all” standard model.

“Offering us discounted international calling, for instance, wouldn’t be a big draw card because we make so few calls overseas.”
“We weighed up all the options and alternate suppliers did offer us discount calls across the entire group. But their complex calling structure, rebates and rates didn’t appeal as much as getting a better price up front from Vodafone.”
Radius Residential Care forms a major part of the Radius Health Group along with Radius Pharmacy and Radius Medical.

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For further information contact:

Brien Cree
Chief Executive
Radius Residential Care Ltd
Ph (09) 353 20280
Cell 021 955 769
brien.cree@radiushealth.co.nz


Paul Brislen
External Communications Manager
Vodafone New Zealand
Mob 021 721 337
Email paul.brislen@vodafone.com