Still NO action from Vodacom...

And YET AGAIN I received a NEW reference number and still NO ACTION taken by Vodacom!! A2-FH1A-DD91G3

*** Copy of my 10 May 2019 hellopeter complaint:

And yet again, Vodacom opened a query and closed it as "completed" without EVER contacting me or even made an attemp to address my complaint... (A2-B79H-PU8412) *** I pay well over R1000 a month on my business contract for a service that I can only use when I am not at home. And I work from home!! So now I am incurring those costs on my contract as well as the same amount and sometimes a bit more on my MTN prepaid phone and modem which I had to acquire out of necessity because I cannot use Vodacom's service.

What is it going to take for Vodacom to attend to this issue? Lodging a normal complaint doesn't help. Asking nicely doesn't help. Screaming doesn't help. So, with who at Vodacom can I PLEAD to PLEASE attend to this issue!? It is not rocket science. We've had a working signal booster for the last ten years. Why would it suddenly be impossible?

Lodging a complaint at customer care is useless: I have countless reference numbers and each time just as I think that we are getting somewhere, someone would phone me from the call centre to ask is my query has been resolved. EVERY TIME I would in NO uncertain terms tell them that it has NOT been resolved and EVERY TIME, without fail I get an sms directly after that call that states that my reference number has now been closed as my query has been resolved. Then EVERY TIME I phone again and explain that my query has NOT been resolved and that they cannot close the reference number. The people at the call centre would say yes, they see that and they understand and will keep the complaint open and escalate my query. Just for me to receive an sms after the call with YET ANOTHER new reference number and the frustration starts all over again. And this cycle repeated itself EVERY SINGLE TIME.

The last time the lady at the call centre said that it was fine that if I have the contractor's details I can just phone him directly. It has been weeks that I keep on phoning him. First the excuse was that they were waiting on a planner from Vodacom to advise them. Then the excuse was that they were busy on another job (that lasted two weeks) and cannot come out. Then they promised to come out one afternoon. Phoned them and they said oh, sorry. We'll come tomorrow. Phoned the next day and the call was rejected. Since then the number doesn't work. The alternative number which he gave me to send whatsapps on, the messages are just ignored. So my question for Vodacom remains - WHO do I contact to get this issue resolved?? If it is NOT the call centre and NOT the contractor, then WHO!?

The current contractor came out two times. Remember, I've had the booster for ten years and each time there was an issue with it, Vodacom THEMSELVES came out and replaced whatever was faulty on the unit and it worked again. There was NEVER any issues with the initial installation which Vodacom did many moons ago! The first time the contractors came out, the changed everyting. Units, cables and they insisted that they drill holes in my ceiling to install the splitters in different places than where it were as they said this would fix my problem.. It wasn't working perfectly when they left, but they said to just test it a couple of days and then let them know of it still didn't work. OBVIOUSLY it didn't start to work by miracle after they left, so I phoned them the next week.

They came out again and this time decided to move the aerial (with which there was absolutely NOTHING WRONG!) to the other side of the house. I asked them if they are now not moving it ****her away from the tower and they actually said they do not know! They redid the ENTIRE installation. Aerial. Cables Unit. And then it stopped working COMPLETELY! I asked the contractor what he did and he just said it is Vodacom's problem. They did everything they could. Then he proceeded - this is the biggest joke of this whole tragedy - to phone his supervisor whilst sitting on the roof.

He had a long, uninterrupted call to his supervisor. I waited and then tried to explain if he can now understand what I am saying. Vodacom works! The tower works! There IS signal. The signal booster must just get that brilliant signal that he had whilst sitting on the roof INTO the house. I apparently did not make any sense to him and he still insisted they did everything right and the fault lies with Vodacom. I beg you!?!?!?!?!?!?

It has now been two contractors and three call outs later, and the issue is STILL not resolved. Vodacom doesn't mind paying contractors who do not do their job, but I most certainly do not share that sentiment.

I INSIST that the EXPENSIVE service I am paying for is actually one that I can use. So now another contractor must come out and put the aerial where it is supposed to be. AGAIN. Redo the cabling. AGAIN. And all because of the absolute don't care attitude from Vodacom towards their PAYING customers!

I am incurring SO MUCH extra costs to just stay connected via data and voice that I have to buy from MTN now additionally. Vodacom, this is a BUSINESS CONTRACT and you are really hampering my business. PLEASE STOP IT and fix this issue!? I don't know any more words to just BEG YOU to please attend to my query speedily and COMPETENTLY. ***

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Below a copy of my last hellopeter complaint which I lodged on 3 January 2019 Dishonest Network Department Employees I have been complaining to Vodacom's Network Department for MONTHS on end and with EVERY call I get a reference number - WHICH MEANS NOTHING. When I follow up the calls with my reference number, I get the answer that I need to wait 7-14 working days for them to attend to my query and just before the time expires I get an sms stating that my service ticket has been closed as my issue has been resolved. IT IS AND WAS NEVER RESOLVED!!!!!! Every time I have to phone again and every time I get a NEW reference number and EVERY TIME I am told to just be patient as I need to wait out the 7-14 working days for the technician to contact me. NO ONE - except for the call centre staff - has EVER contacted me and NO technician has come out to evaluate my situation. EVEN THOUGH there is a note on their system that he WAS here and found that we need a new tower built in our area. THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM ASKING. I have been hearing about the new tower for longer than 5 years. ALL I AM ASKING is for the technician to inspect and fix the booster Vodacom has installed... They make up their own stories, they word my complaint ridiculously inaccurate - due to incompetence or spite, I don't know - and in so doing set the stage to just keep on ignoring me and I am the sucker who just keeps on paying for a service I cannot use as I had to replace our phoned with MTN prepaid phones, just to be able to communicate. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLY ridiculous!! I won't even attempt to write about my account queries that has still also not been resolved. Apparently Vodacom cannot attend to two queries at once. They are so easily confused... A list of some of my previous reference numbers - which were ALL closed and stated as "resolved". UTTER HOGWASH!!!! (There are more, unfortunately I didn't keep all of them...) A8-BJCG-2D1FS A2-B79H-PU8412 A8-BIGE-CU1VB A2-B0QA-XIV1IS I attach my original hellopeter complaint underneath *** Vodacom = absolute pathetic customer (NON) service I am actually flabbergasted by the sheer incompetence and arrogance from Vodacom BUSINESS (nogal!) staff. I attach my original complaint - one of countless others - below. It has still not been sorted. I received phone calls from different vodacom departments and got a runaround from EVERYONE of them, because they actually do not know what they are doing!! Eventually I got to speak to someone who sounded as if they understand - just to get an SMS a couple of days later stating that I misunderstood and that they will not be changing anything and that I must maar just accept the status quo. Vodacom customer service is a disappointment and UTTER frustration from beginning to end. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE POOR NETWORK COVERAGE!! Vodacom - DO BETTER!! *** I migrated my vodacom contract to a business contract in the beginning of the year - and I have had issues with them from day ONE and NO knowledgeable customer care agent EVER follows up on any one of my complaints. I keep on calling. Keep on telling THE SAME story and keep on getting THE SAME response which gives me hope that they understood and will attend to the issue. NOTHING! Then I just have to phone again and NOTHING EVER gets resolved. It is the MOST RIDICULOUS customer care experience EVER. Here is my ISSUE - I do hope that someone will take time to READ it and investigate AND ATTEND to my complaints! I was on the Red contract before migrating and migrated to a Red package on the business side again. When applying, the manager in store drew my attention to the fact that I can now have 4 free dedicated data sim cards (I already had 2). I wanted a third sim, but asked if he could activate the new sim on the twin call service. He said that he couldn't do it in store, but I should send my request to vbsadmin and that they will be able to assist me. (That was a frustration in itself!) Eventually - after numerous calls and e-mails - someone understood and activated the data sim card. Then I enquired about the twin sim service which I requested and there the customer care agents were blank again. I kept on calling and rehashing the same information time and time again. I then received an sms on one of my older data sim cards that my twin call service has been successfully activated thereon. I also saw on my account invoice that I am charged R25 per month for this service. I phoned AGAIN and was told that the R25 was for the extra data sim. After a long discussion and where the supervisor checked my account history, they agreed that the R25 cannot be charged for the extra data sim, as I was allowed 4 free. They then subsequently told me that the R25 was for the twin sim service. Now we are getting somewhere. But the twin call service is activated on the wrong number and not the number I requested. In a follow up call to the call centre, the agent said that the system now showed that the twin call service was active on the sim card I requested and that I should turn of my device and leave it off for half an hour and then restart and it should work. It didn't. He also said that he sent through a request that the R25 per month be credited to me for the months I did not use the service, as it was their mistake. Nothing. I phoned again - spoke to yet ANOTHER call centre agent who did not understand a word that I am talking about and tried in vain to explain and start from scratch. NO JOY. I subsequently received an sms stating that I must rather e-mail vbs again with my request. WHAT!!?? What is the call centre for? Where are all their notes and actions and whatever that needs to be on their system!? This is the most pathetic service. Running concurrently with this issue, was my network coverage complaints. I would complain, they will promise that a technician would come out and investigate and then.. NOTHING. Just an sms after a couple of days saying that my query has been resolved. NO IT HASN'T!! I had to go and buy MTN prepaid sim cards for everyone working on the farm, just to be able to communicate!!!! On the last call I made to the call centre, it was the FIRST TIME that the lady actually plotted my location on a map. No one EVER did that with any of my previous calls. No one EVER came to investigate and my coverage complaint has MOST DEFINITELY NOT been resolved. I am paying a huge amount a month for a service I cannot use unless I travel. And I took out the business contract because I want to use it for my BUSINESS!! That means where I live and work!! Vodacom - please have someone willing and ABLE to attend to my complaints contact me URGENTLY!! And if you don't get through - BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE SIGNAL - please phone on the MTN number that hellopeter provides you with.