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Carine V

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2012

27 Sept 2023, 22:57

Vodacom's Customer Care Is Disgraceful!

Further to my previous reviews, Vodacom once again has failed dismally. I have an uncapped data contract with Vodacom, and have not had data for 10 days, with a one day break, and it's down again.

Vodacom has the capacity to monitor all of its networks remotely (and has had this capability for at least 20 years), but still fails to monitor and take care of outages.

Over the 10 day outage, I attempted to call Vodacom call centre (because without data, none of the other reporting options are available), and each time, your anything-but-brilliant "virtual assistant" called Toby, cut the call before I was able to select an option to speak to a human assistant. This means that for 10 days, nobody could report a fault.

Vodacom your service is appalling, and your care for customers is beyond anything that resembles customer retention. There are other services in our town that now rely on, and therefore care for, local customers.

Vodacom, you clearly do not understand (or care) about user experience. If you had, any and every change you made to your all-centre menu would and should have been experienced from the point of view of the customer. You have once again failed there too.

I have effectively (and once again) been deprived of a third of the services promised under my contract, but Vodacom bluntly refuses to refund customers for services not provided.

Once agian, Vodacom has failed at anything but to keep it's shareholders happy.

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Vodacom
Vodacom's reply28 Sept 2023, 07:31
Official
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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Carine V's update28 Sept 2023, 11:28
Reviewer Update
I have still not been contacted by anybody from Vodacom. Any efforts to telephonically connect with a human at Vodacom are once again fruitless. Vodacom has made it impossible to report a network outage, because your voicebot has once again refreshed the line and cut the call, which is, quite frankly useless and doesn't resolve the problem.

Vodacom your Sakhelwe tower in Dullstroom is down, and the entire town that's connected to this tower has been without a data connection for 11 days. Please do something about it urgently!