And Vodafone's 'Take Me Home" winner is.

Sivakama Sundari from Bangalore will ride back home with a brand new 500 cc bike

Bangalore, January 10, 2007: Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading telecom service providers, announced the winner of ‘Take Me Home’, a promotion launched exclusively for customers in Karnataka.

R. Sivakama Sundari, a resident from Jayanagar, Bangalore was declared one of the lucky winners and she will now take home a brand new 500 cc bike. Monishi Ghosh, Vice President – Sales and Marketing, Vodafone Essar – Karnataka handed over the bike keys to the winner. Other winners across Karnataka walked away with additional talk time, ipods and laptops.

On winning, Sivakama Sundari exulted, saying the imported bike was “a super new year gift and thanked “Vodafone for giving us prepaid customers, these exciting offers and the opportunity to win surprise gifts.” But Sundari won’t be zipping away on the bike, for she’s going to gift it to her Dad!

Samuel Selvakumar, Operations Director, Vodafone Essar South, said their customers could look forward to more such exciting value-adding prizes in the future. The prizes up for grabs include laptops, I-Pods, and specified guaranteed additional talktime on every recharge.

Vodafone Essar, under the Hutch brand, has been named the ‘Most Respected Telecom Company’, the ‘Best Mobile Service in the country’ and the ‘Most Creative and Most Effective Advertiser of the Year’.

Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile communications company. It now has operations in 25 countries across 5 continents and 40 partner networks with over 200 million customers worldwide. Vodafone has partnered with the Essar Group as its principal joint venture partner for the Indian market.