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Dear visitor,

Since its inception Vodafail.com has made a significant contribution towards raising awareness of the problems and issues faced by Vodafone customers.

Vodafone Australia customers have had the opportunity to voice their concerns, their fears and their troubles from every corner of Australia and beyond our borders. You have gathered the courage to stand up for your rights as consumers and to make your voice heard.

Each and every person who shared their story should have a sense of pride in this achievement and the changes that have occurred since the start of Vodafail.com.

More recently, traffic to Vodafail.com has declined significantly. Having achieved the goal of raising awareness and promoting concrete action in early 2011, we have now reached the point of closing Vodafail to new complaints. The site will remain online for as long as possible as a reminder and an example of what is possible when we share our experiences.

It has been a privilege to run this initiative and I'm am forever grateful for the help and support I've received. In particular I would like to thank Melissa, David and Travis for their continued efforts over the past 15 months. I'm also thankful and humbled by the support of ACCAN, Choice magazine and a wide range of media outlets, blogs and websites.

You can still browse existing stories and find out how to file a complaint if you are experiencing problems.

Until next time,

Adam Brimo

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17595 Someone from QLD thinks vodafone is REJECT grade for quality at 1 May 2011 08:13:47 AM
I have been on VodaFail for one week with a new Nokia N8. I churned to them from 3 and a Nokia E63. I now regret that move. The Nokia E63 on 3 worked everywhere for me. I churned, only because of the offer of a particular plan that suits my one man business. The New Nokia N8 is not as good as other phones in week signal areas. It lack sensitivity. This, combined with VodaFail's poor signal coverage is a bad combination. For example, at my home office (on ground floor) in Macgregor QLD 4109 (10km south of Brisbane CBD) I can have a 6 bar signal strength showing and I start a new phone call. During the call, the signal strength will creep down to one bar and even no bar indication. Of course, the person I call will complain to me before this droput that they cannot hear me and also I sound distorted. I have now discovered that I can (mostly) have a successful call if I go upstairs and stand near an open window. I have never had these problems with other phone/service provider combinations over 10 years at this location. I have reported this to VodaFail. First, I tried to send a message to their Support from their own web page. That was an EPIC fail, since the SUBMIT button ... did not. So, I phoned them. I was passed around to a number of people / departments. Eventually, I ended up with a polite person who was in another country. I was making this call outside the house, in the middle of the street, trying to catch a useable signal. Eventually, the process required the Nokia N8 to be rebooted & settings changed, so he called me back on a landline. He taked me through the process. Finally, we arrived at the point in his trouble-shooting where nothing at fault had been found, and his next remedy was the restore to Factory Settings. He gave me the detailed instructions on how to do this, since I first needed to backup the memory, and said he was logging me to receive a 50% rebate on my bill for the next 3 months as compensation for this problem. I installed their Nokia <-> PC software on a computer and backed up the phone to the PC. Reverting to factory settings and restoring the phone memories has done nothing to improve the performance of the Nokia N8 on a weak network. I have since discovered other reports of the N8 and having poor performance in weak signal areas. One week has gone by and the same problems are being experienced. For example, yesterday I was at a client premises in Crestmead QLD 4132. There was ZERO signal available and I was OUTSIDE. Now, I have to escalate this situation to seek a remedy. My experience is that their current service coverage and product combination is NOT OF MERCHANTABLE QUALITY.