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Claude G

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2011

08 Oct 2020, 13:54

Vodacom Cancellations and service

Vodacom Fibre has proven for my purposes to be a very poor choice; the service is unreliable, often uselessly slow and week-end of 3 October 2020, out of action for almost 24 hours. The call centre service is equally bad, leading mostly to frustration and no solution. The router they use is useless, because it allows almost no control to the user to control what goes on with it, so you can't lock family members out, for example. Under the circumstances, Vodacom has not delivered their side of the contract, i.e. performance, thereby having created the desire in me to cancel. Yet, if the customer now wishes to cancel because of VODACOM's non-performance, they would still charge you an arm and leg to get out of it, when their non-performance is the cause of the desire to cancel. This is highway *******, and the kind of thing ICASA should be policing, yet ICASA has not weighed in on these unfair contracts, of which all ISPs in South Africa seem to be guilty of. ICASA's probably sleeping, as usual. How long have they been sitting with the process of issueing new spectrum? And still haven't finalised it. We are cursed, living in a country of non-performing government institutions. I challenge ICASA to show South African data customers some worthy service, by responding to this review. And VODACOM, talk to me about a fuss-free termination of my fibre contract. If you do it right, I might choose to stay with you, rather migrating to wireless, because fibre (at least from them, anyway) is not all it's cracked up to be.

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Vodacom's reply08 Oct 2020, 14:10
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 Dear Customer,  Thank you for making us aware of your complaint.  Kindly be advised that a consultant will make contact with you in due course to assist with your query.  ***Please note*** Beware of phishing ****s.  Vodacom will not contact you via Whatsapp to request your personal details  Regards,  Vodacom Consumer Website Team 
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Claude G's update12 Oct 2020, 12:39
Reviewer Update
Congratulations on your claim of '... attempts to contact ...' ' ... was unsuccessful'. It's probably an outright lie, because I have a landline and cell number registered with you, yet, received no communication from you whatsoever. And then you advise I should contact the very channel whose inefficiency and ineptitude at sorting out problems was the very reason for my complaint? Are you that useless that you struggle to dial a phone number? Please!
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Claude G's update22 Oct 2020, 13:45
Reviewer Update
A Vodacom service agent did eventually contact me to discuss my problem. He was polite, understanding and a good listener. He suggested that I pursue the matter of the unreliable service with the relevant technical department so that I may lodge a service request with them to come out and test my line. I asked him the contact details of this department and he said they would publish it in the reply here. I have searched through the reply, and the only contact I find is the useless *** call centre. I will not reach out to them again - too much incompetence, leading to immense customer frustration. (I expected a usable solution to be that the service agent would organise that testing of my line automatically, without any further intervention from myself). But besides that, the service agent did not address my true concern, i.e. that I want out of this unreliable service contract, without having to pay any penalties for their incompetence/non-performance. I await a usable solution, with baited breath, Vodacom.