Orange and AmEx offer roaming rewards program

Orange, a cellular service provider in Mumbai, and American Express have announced that the Roaming Rewards program would be extended to include visiting national roaming customers into Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Gujarat. As per the program, for every Rs 100 worth of airtime used, in-roamers will get 10 American Express membership rewards points.

Orange announced the tie up with American Express in addition to the tie-ups it already has with the likes of The Oberoi Hotels, Air India/India Airlines, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Bank, HDFC Bank, for the Roaming Rewards program. 

The roaming customer will now have the option of choosing an alliance partner by calling 500 (toll-free) for registering on to the program. This registration is a one-time activity in each of the Hutchison networks - Orange (in Mumbai), Celforce (in Gujarat), Command (in Kolkata) and Hutch (in Delhi). The reward points will be forwarded to the alliance partners once every month (on the 15th of the next month for any given month) and accordingly the bills of alliance partners will reflect the points accrued. The current value of points for each Alliance Partner is for Rs 100 of airtime used-10 Mileage Points with Air India or seven Bonus Rewards with HSBC Credit Card or five TOP Points with Oberoi or 7 Reward Points with Standard Chartered Credit Card or a credit of Rs 4 with HDFC Bank account.