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20 Nov 2024, 09:20

3 days no internet and poor communication

Honestly, this is a review I wanted to make a few times now. Vumatel used to be the king of Fibre, but now, their infrastructure seems to get worst and worst every year. Again, people that work from home can't, because of a fault that isn't given the highest priority to be fixed. 4 neighborhoods are/were down. Yet, they don't see the urgency to fix this ASAP. Instead they hault repairs for the night. This time, the issue was not caused by Vuma the self's, but the lack of communication and the lack of urgency is making me and many others think about using Openserve instead. We are lucky that Openserve is also in our area. For reference, the area in question is the outage in Protea Valley, Welgemoed, van riebeeckshof, and some parts of Kenridge apparently according to my isp. For the first time since Fibre was installed in our area, myself and many I've spoken to, are seriously thinking of moving away from Vuma. Very disappointing, frustrating to say the least.

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Vumatel
Vumatel's reply20 Nov 2024, 11:24
Official
Good day JP R

Thank you for getting in touch. 

We apologize for any inconvenience caused, but we are currently experiencing an outage in your area. Our dedicated team of technicians is actively working on resolving the issue and restoring the service as quickly as possible. We understand the importance of the services affected by this outage and assure you that we are doing everything in our power to rectify the situation.

We initiated communication with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) regarding outages and the progress of repairs. Our team has reached out to them to facilitate communication directly with you, the end user. We are sorry that the message was never relayed to you.

Kind regards
The Vuma Team.
's update20 Nov 2024, 13:17
Reviewer Update
I'm not sure how you know who my ISP is, but when did you initiate communication with my ISP? Only after logging a ticket with them this morning I was given information by them. And this is day 3.

What is the latest update?
's update21 Nov 2024, 08:57
Reviewer Update
As expected, We are on day 4, and apart from the copy paste response and passing blame to the Isp for the lack of communication, no communication from Vuma. That is 4 days of me not being able to work from home. If you truly did care you would have made this a priority as this is/was affecting 100's of households. I'm already looking at options and ad rising people in my area to look at more reliable options. With a close to 1* average review on hellopeter.com, Vuma clearly doesn't care to actually turn a negative review into a positive one.