Only enough reception to make a phone call in certain area's.
Have to reconnect/disconnect connection on phone just to receive a signal.
Rarely get full 3G reception. Always low to half strength 3G reception.

Was overcharged on my bill over a period of 4 months to a total of $900. Tried ringing them on numerous occasions to try and retrieve the credit that was sitting in my account. finally get through and 2.5hrs on hold and the bloke tries to convince me to leave it in my account so I won't have to worry about paying future bills. After it was clear that I wanted my money back I was told that I would receive a check within 10 working days. Waited just over 4 weeks before I reachieved it in the mail + another couple of days for the check to clear. All this and not to mention the crap service and constant lose of reception.

I seem to not have reception anywhere I go; even in the heart of SYDNEY CBD which one thing I can not understand.

Vodafone get your act together or get out of this market; we are in 2011 and we depend on our mobile devices heavily for work and being connected with the rest of the world.

Can someone tell me if this also affects the Three network. I have been with them for years due to the cheap plans. I now live in the Sydney CBD and have absolutely crap coverage, the same for my Three Wireless. Can Three customers also get out of the contracts, I am dying to go to Telstra. I can't stand this coverage anymore.

Appalling mobile broadband service. Constant poor reception and dropouts. 6Gb a month for $39 but you are lucky to get 6Mb

went with them told I couldnt go with 3. nothing but pain and more pain .got no where with the customer cenre( what centre). Eventaly after e-mails , phone calls and livimg at the local store to complain, they granted my wish and disconnected me Free of charge. Till a week later now I am hounded by e=mail/ phone texting telling me I owe them moniey for not being on there network? (what the hell) sent my complaint to TIO. Thank you for being here.

I have a new sony xperia and at home in melbourne cbd the reception drops from one or two bars to nothing consistently, also i go to Eildon which is 130km outside Melbourne and very rarely get reception there too, i think it depends on what way the wind blows.. It is pathetic, i wasnt aware of this when i signed my contract..

Vodafone you are proving how bad you are during this Queensland Flood Crisis...continuous dropouts, no reception when other providers work. No excuses. I will not be renewing my contract

sign up with vodafone on 12/12/10 and have had nothing but poor reception and 3g network and miss text messages and friend have said they have try to ring but it said phone off or no service,went to werribee in Melbourne Victoria and had no service which for this day and age is just not on.have been on the phone to vodafone more than 6+ time and are tired of waiting and been on hold.l just about had enough and if they can not give me service i hope they will release me from my contract.
p.s even in oakleigh east

I constantly lose reception, messages are always delayed, or do not send/receive at all. I have been incorrectly billed for at least the past 6 months. It is too hard to try and correct any problems as it takes up to and exceeding an hour to get thru to call centre staff. It is simply not good enough and I want out of my contract. I have been a customer since 2001.

Receiving text messages days later, no service, phone dropping out. I have rung customer service three times trying to get my contract cancelled. Each time I have been on the phone for over 1 1/2 hours and most of the time on hold. The customer service people are rude and don't listen. They are saying its my handset and has nothing to do with the coverage. They never return calls when they say they will. This has happened on two occasions.

Hi all,

I managed after around 3 months to upgrade to an iphone 4. I received it yesterday with the new U-SIM to be used in these new device.

At 18h45, I started the phone number transfer. As per the instructions provided by Vodafone with the phone I activated the new Sim card, at least I thought I had. I followed the instructions that were prompted to me over the phone (1555). Everything went well, after 5 minutes I was told that it would take around one hour to get the new phone in operation with my current number.

Around 21h00 yestrday, my 'old phone' was still receiving a vodafone signal while the new was still displaying 'No Service'.

This morning, I check again, I have no coverage on both phones. I don't even know how to contact them without any operational phone!

Today, I have to drive 4 hours return to country victoria for work from melbourne and I will not have any phones. Well, thinking about it, I guess even with a signal in Melbourne CBD, I may quite rapidly loose it... Thanks Vodafail!

I signed up with vodafone over 2 years ago. I was told my contract included $1000 worth of calls a month only to be hit by bills of 200+ saying that I exceeded the $900 included in my plan. I was never told about the tax I would have to pay on every bill. When I called up about my issue I was told that it was my fault for not double checking before i signed up and staff would never say $1000 worth of included calls even though that's what I was told. After many calls, call centers hanging up I thought what's the point. Then vodafone released the "check your remaining balance by text" this originally never mentioned tax again so I thought I could use the remaining value without exceeding my cap. I was mislead again. Again calling to complain lead to long holds that were over 2 hours in some cases, being transferred and hung up on. When I heard of a new $100 unlimited plan I thought they would let me swap over due to how I was mislead.. Only to be told I would have to pay over $1600 outright for breaking contract. Funny how they can lie but I'm stuck with them for two years. So I put up with the lack of customer service and faulty phone I had to replace myself (I could only afford a $27 phone from kmart) only to find that I had over a year until my contract expired.... Around Two months before my contract expired I was told by the people in my closest vodafone store I could upgrade. Not having what I thought was a reliable phone I had no other choice but to try and upgrade. I was told I had to call up to upgrade, so I did being placed on hold only to be promised contracts that either didn't exist or being hung up on and nobody could honor the promises made. I was on hold one of the weeks for easily over 5 hours. I gave up thinking that what's the point of upgrading if they treat me like shit. Again I had no other option as I thought my phone was the issue to my reception problems. I was told by another phone brand to call the ombudsmen about what was going on and I would find a result quickly. Funnily enough vodafone assigned a person to my case and they contacted me. The promises made to me about my new contract were kept and i verbally argreed to what I was told, however I asked for a fine print of my contract, and my insurance which still hasn't come. On top of that about a week after getting my new phone I had poor and no reception for 3 days making getting home a struggle as I couldn't transfer money on my phone. When I told my "specially appointed vodafone service operator" I was never given any reason for the reception issues and still today I struggle with many areas near my house and work with reception. Signing up again in the hopes of getting a good phone so I could have better reception was a waste, i had a $27 phone and now an iPhone and the reception issues are still the same.

Terrible coverage, dropouts, unsent/received messages.
I'm going to cancel my contract with no fees once my 4 months they gave me for free is up.

I love how everyone flips out and goes mental about the flood crisis affecting the Vodafone network. Energex switched off power to nearly 20,000 homes because of the floods. Retail stores shut down because of the floods. Vodafone networks were affected because of the floods. It's amazing you still point your finger at Vodafone when the situation was an act of God.

During the flood emergency in Brisbane, There was completely no service for hours. And when reception did come back, phone calls was limited to seconds before dropped out. I believe Voda are responsible for lives lost and property lost due to unable to call anyone for help ....... also why are they even charing us for service that is non existant ?

I am very fed up with the fact I am paying for a service that I cannot use. Cannot send texts nor receive texts. I constantly have no reception. My phone "loses" reception and continuously drops out while mid conversation. I am unable to access social networking sites. I do not receive phone calls. People try to contact me and it says my phone is "switched off". Again, why am I paying for a service I cannot use!!

Purchased 4 phones Nov/Dec ...have not had reception, contacted Vodafone, suggested it maybe Handset issues, changed handsets for new ones, no difference. Can't get reception even though there map shows good coverage, which obviously means nothing at all. Constant.goes off and switches to emergency calls only....and I get constant .....message unable to send. Cannot make voice calls inside my house, or even outside really, connection drops out constantly, my husband sends me a message to pick him up from work as we car share....hours later like six or seven hours later I get the messsged. Drop outs occur all the time. This is total breach of Vodafail contract and I want out of my contract which is less than did weeks old . Absolute rubbish service.

Flooding emergency. Vodafone network continually dropping out. F*CK YOU VODAFONE!

my phone reception cut out whilst talking to a CSR about my level 2 TIO complaint....

Poor coverage anywhere but in major towns/cities. Recent trip along Great Ocean Road absolutely no coverage between Apollo Bay and Warnambool. Even in Warnambool you needed to be right in the centre of town, no coverage on outskirts of Warnambool(10 mins from the centre if that). Calls dropped out at Logan's Beach watching the whales(not exactly out of town!). Poor coverage inner city Melbourne - calls drop out or don't connect at all if on the lower level of larger buildings eg basement floor of Myer, Target, Big W etc. Driving to Queensland a few years ago through NSW via the Newell HWY absolutely no coverage unless in a town - bad luck if the car breaks down or there is an emergency. It was quite ironic driving past the saellite dish in Parkes, they can communicate to space out there but you couldn't get any Vodafone coverage! We've only remained with Vodafone as their prepaid is cheap compared to other providers and our mobiles are not used for making social calls. I suppose you get what you pay for!!!

Ive had my N97 since Oct 2010 With Vodafail. Besides the fact that i beleive there is something wrong with the phone - and Nokia thinks it is user fault that the battery doesnt last, that the phone wont charge, that it drops out of charging randomly etc - My experience with Vodafone has been disasterous.

I struggle to get decent reception - and i live 15 kms from Sydney CBD. Many times my friends on Optus and Telstra have reception when i dont, my reception drops out randomly and i struggle to get it back - and im not even moving from my location and this happens,even the reception i have drops out in calls, I get delayed text msgs, or msgs i send are not recieved by the recipient untill the next day or longer, I supposedly have 3G reception but it fails to deliver.

The vodafone customer service is so atrocious that i refuse to even call the customer service line - because i know im going to sit on there for 30 mins or more, and then be told there is nothing they can do, and to take the phone into the store. The store people palm you off to customer service!! Its rediculous really. They keep passing the buck for blame. I have been unable to use my N97 and have had to buy a cheap make do phone so i could still use a phone. It runs out of battery within only a few hours, refuses to make calls, struggles to charge (and is only a bit better about charging if i take the sim out of the phone), reception drops out, the phone doesnt cope with the amount of memory it has, is slow.

Also Vodafone years ago used ot ask you if you wanted to change your contract to the new version of hte one you are paying that has better stuff with it - ie more money in the cap etc - but i havent heard a thing, i didnt even know i could transfer accross to the equiv contract. And again, you have to call the shitty customer service cos teh people in shops only want to sell the phone to you, they dont want to talk to you about any issues you are having.

Internet on iPhone keeps dropping. I'm have 4bars & 3G coverage... Vodafail!

Very slow mobile internet,delayed messaging (sending and recieving) by up to 6 hours.My phone (Nokia N97 mini) is basically usless and I still have a year and a half left on my contract.

Get better reception as apposed to pouring money down the drain in sponsering cricket and bringing out new shitty adds

Poor reception, delayed messaging

Vodafone!!! U seriously have no idea how much i HATE you!!!! I have got wifi internet through you and if it is not saying no network, it is saying connected, but no internet access!!! WHat is the freaking point of having wifi internet if I cant access it!!!! GRRRRRR

Purchased a mobile internet package for specific use on Moreton Island.
Zero service coverage anywhere on the island.
I was assured from sales staff that I would be able to access internet from Tangalooma resort- even showed me a coverage map as proof.
Bah! Posted my details on the class action against Vodafone.

Purchased a mobile internet package for specific use on Moreton Island.
Zero service coverage anywhere on the island.
I was assured from sales staff that I would be able to access internet from Tangalooma resort- even showed me a coverage map as proof.
Bah! Posted my details on the class action against Vodafone.

bad coverage

I've been with vodafone for over 10 years and when I lived in Sydney-the line would drop out continually and get a message on my phone saying that the network is busy.

Now I live in Queensland and the network is non-existent up here. One moment I have 2 bars and then make a phone call- the next moment, no network coverage.It would be easier to send pigeons with messages.

I'm changing phone companies when damage control due to the floods has passed.

I live in a country town, Coonabarabran NSW.. Over the past 3 months I have noticed that the service to our town and surrounding areas has been anything but lacklustre. I am constantly dropping out of calls where only minutes before I had full reception. Excessive Junk TXT messages are appearing on my phone where I have made no subscriptions to any of these third party companies.
Just bluntly, after being a member for 10 years, the last 3 months have been an absolute shocker...Vodafone, pull your finger out and fix this before I get sick of this CARP of a service and change providers...

Claybags

Looking forward to my plan finishing, so I can go with another provider! Thinking Optus or Telstra.
I've complained in person many times about the lack of reception my phone gets, or the full bars of reception my phone displays however msgs not sending. It's become a painful task of turning my phone on and off to send one msg. I also find connecting to the net on my phone painfully slow on many occasions. Some days, the phone works. Other days, I'm outta luck. The service is too unreliable. I'm completely frustrated with the lack of network coverage!
When I compare my reception to my partner, who is on Optus I always find I'm the one with either no or the lowest amount of reception available. Poor work on Vodafone behalf!
The staff members in the shop are extremely unhelpful and rude when I bring up these issues. One staff member has even said to me his phone isn't with Vodafone, so he doesn't know of the technical problems I have. Proves to me, Vodaphone is one massive FAIL!

I'm in the Ipswich floods tonight and was depending on communication to be available most of the time.
I understand that the network is congested because of the overall scale of this disaster but i at the very least expected to be able to make some calls when the network had a chance to recover.

But true to form Vodafone has gone down completely for the last 10 hrs, while my neighbour is with telstra and has not lost signal all day.

Most of the time vodafone is substandard but i thought just this once it might be fine, but true to form a "DEAD LOSS" #!!??#######

Goodbye Vodafone hello Telstra !!!

we are in the middle of the flood here in ipswich and we absolutely have no mobile phone network...cant make phone calls cant receive any calls...we be swept away by floods and cant even call out for help...! cant ring families let them know were ok cant ring freinds absolutely useless..!

I live in a country town, Coonabarabran NSW.. Over the past 3 months I have noticed that the service to our town and surrounding areas has been anything but lacklustre. I am constantly dropping out of calls where only minutes before I had full reception. Excessive Junk TXT messages are appearing on my phone where I have made no subscriptions to any of these third party companies.
Just bluntly, after being a member for 10 years, the last 3 months have been an absolute shocker...Vodafone, pull your finger out and fix this before I get sick of this CARP of a service and change providers...

Claybags

since early december my iphone throughout sydney constantly drops calls, and network randomly; what should i do

Reception is poor, calls drop out all the time, down load speed is pathetic most of the time. I have endured this from this carrier for many months. I try to complain, they put me on hold, transfer me from dept. to dept. They operators that I speak to have fractured english, are rude and abrupt. Hours and hours of my life lost, what am I paying for? I am not a masochist yet it feels like I'm paying for a domination service, red ball in mouth bent over a table being flogged by a dominatrix using an iPhone charger. I am going to the ombudsman. I am iRate.

My calls keep dropping out. I now dont get reception in areas where I used to. I receive text messages during the night when they were sent to me hours before. I also get messages when it's too late. Like hubby messaging me to pick up my son from day care because he can't get there and i've already gone home getting the message when my husband gets home and my son still in day care.

3 phones and 1 wifi internet device all failed at the same time - rang Vodafone customer support from a different carrier phone, waited 45 minutes and was put through the ringer rebooting phones, removing sim cards, because they were convinced this was a problem with my three phones and internet device- possibly they required settings to be reset - couldn't be a problem with the network, although my devices all displayed "no network" at the same time.They were to phone me back - instead they sent me an SMS on my other phone telling me to call them back so they could "raise an investigation" as to why my devices all stopped working together. I rang back, after another 50 minutes listening to music and messages telling me how busy they were, network came back. Not the best time for network fail when people are trying to stay in contact due to flooding in QLD.

Yeah, I've whinged here already about poor reception in my unit. Well my boyfriend's been trying to call me afternoon and couldn't get through. I have bother of our phones in my hands - his calls aren't getting through to me and my calls aren't getting through to him.

We're both with Vodafone and both phones show up with full reception bars.

Signed up in august last year online with an iPhone 4 deal. Got the phone in two weeks so I thought things were looking promising. Called to port my number over was told it should take upto 24 hours. No word of a lie it took 3 weeks and around 10 angry calls with a minimum hold time of an hour to get it done. Finally had it ported but it wasnt done properly and my voicemail hadnt been transferred. So two weeks later and another 5 calls it finally worked properly.
Thy failed to alert me that I was close to exceeding my data cap. So $350 later I learnt to track it myself.
I live 30 kms out of melbourne and only had one bar of reception. With constant call drop out rates and 3G not working.
Jan this year I looked at my bill and realized that I'm not paying for my insurance i asked for. Had to call and get it enabled. Wonder what would have happened if I went to make a claim

I constantly have to reset my network settings just to get 3G working


So I found this website and Tried what the said about getting out of my contract. After about 2 weeks of a few angry email I got the to agree to cancel my contract free of charge and hand in
My phone. Went to jbhifi today and got a telstra next g iPhone 4 on a $50 cap and even got an extra 3 gig for $30 a month. Telstra had my number ported and working before I even left the store. 3G runs Sooooooo much faster and reception is soo much better.

Thanks vodafail for the knowledge of how to get out of my contract free of charge. I am very happy my telstra

No reception! Worst time ever for the Vodafone customers to lose reception when all this flooding is happening around here...

Come on Vodafone fix your coverage issues!

Have spent the last 2 hours without reception (phone says 'no service').... Who knows what calls havent been ble to come through!

My boyfriend who's also with vodafone had full reception right next to me. Spent 70 minutes on hold to vodafail before hanging up and sending then a nasty email loaded with abuse.

Vodafone ... You suck!

Agree that the accc should stop vodafone from signing up any new customers until they fix tear huge problems!!!

no reception no sms no 3g no nothing im paying for services i cant even get! eventually when i get through it just drops out again! im over this im going to join telstra

Where to start, well you can get any service in the main street of Home Hill and most of the town has pour to no signal, yet you can drive 1km out of Home Hill and have full signal. When I signed up to a plan in about sept 2009 I was told they would have 3G network in my area soon and yet now in early 2011 there is NO 3G network (Vodafail). For a while they have had no drop outs, but out of the blue, good old Vodafone (Vodafail) has droped out on me again!! So that's why i'm writing this!!

no reception, dropped calls, delayed sms, delayed voicemail

can anyone else get onto the coverage map on the vodafone website? coz i cant !
i watt to check if Pottsville, Kingscliff and Terranora are on there becuase i dont get reception at any of these places!

Normally patchy coverage now no coverage at all. Expensive and inept service from This company and others is what we get from a weak and incompetent government that could so easily impose some form of basic performance standards on these telco's thereby forcing them to divert some their fat profits into necessary network expansion, instead of simply stuffing a daily stream new and unwitting customers into a woefully congested and inadequate network structure.

I live in a residential area with a population of over 60 thousand people. I have purchased mobile phones from vodafone and have signed up to their plans only to be completely disapointed by their lack of reception and service availability - As a result, I constantly miss calls, and, when i do recieve phone calls, I can hardley hear the person on the other end. Its just not good enough in this modern age of technology!

the worse carrier ever.

why the hell do you people pay for CRAP. optus,vodaphone,3... srs guys telstra is going gold with the floods thanks to the next g network..

brisbane when is one of the worst flooding issue in history, myself and others around me have no mobile phone reception.
didnt have coverage from my work to home which is a 30 minute drive without traffic.
quite pathetic and unacceptable under the cercumstances especialy when my work phone (optus)is working fine

NO reception always cutting in and out SICK OF THIS

Yesterday and today, no coverage, limited coverage, call drop outs. Six weeks into getting this phone problems seem to be increasing despite the "coverage" the media has given to Vodafone's poor performance. If they could only pro-rata the plan charges to correlate with available coverage, they'd go down the gurgler quick smart.

Chermside area
already put up with bad reception.
now got NO reception at all!!!

When I ring up to complain....they offer me bonus gigs / data on my plan which would be great were it not for the fact that their coverage is so poor that I cant actaully use it ! Epic fail !

I'm in Townsville in northern QLD and I and a mass of people have no signal right now this is pathetic, just yesterday i had my calls dropping out and people not able to get through to me it would go straight to message bank.
About a month ago i had the same issue and went and spoke to a vodafail consultant in their store and he was so disinterested and clearly didn't know what he was talking about and was rude to boot. I will be getting out of my contract for terrible customer service and S#!t reception, i would call them to complain but i have no reception .... -_-

as everyone knows brisbane is flooding and we are all relying on our mobiles, that can be done as long as you are not with vodafone and we have 0 coverage not only here but my daughter on the gold coast also has 0 coverage. My mother who is with telstra has full coverage so I dont want to here the excuse that it is because of the flood.

the only time I get reception in my own home is by hanging upside down in the shower....not good enough - when signing on for my contract was I by no means told about coverage areas either...when I went into my local store - their idea was just to take the sim out - I need to do this constantly just to get reception anywhere.....I seriously don;t think this is good enough - if there was an emergency I shouldnt have to rely on the emergency number if I have a fone that works but a provider that is not upholding their end of the deal. Not acceptable - just the tip of the iceberg....then just 5 mins ago the whole network drops out and when I rang the store - they knew nothing until the calls started flooding in...POOR....

Never get reception its really anoying and bad for alot of reason obiously

I live in Gladstone, QLD. I brought an Iphone with Vodaphone 6 months ago. I had perfect reception for the first two months in my current home. Now i struggle to make calls, send texts or connect online. I have to walk out of my home onto the street only to get 1 bar and wait for 20 mins at a time for texts and voicemail's to come through, which by the time i get them are to late.

Now i have to go onto the street hourly to check my texts, emails and voice mail but ifi was ever in trouble, their is no way i could ever make a call. Not even to 000.

My phone says 'No Network Access'

omg if someone needed to call an ambulance, they would either have to crawl to the nearest payphone or be left there dying because of a rich company that is exploiting and scamming away our money.

I sometimes go without reception in Brisbane CBD for up to 6 hours. I am suppose to have my bill emailed to me on a certain date every month (Bill Date), yet have to call nearly every single month (5 days after the Bill Date) to ask them to send me my bill. Every single time I call them and explain that "it has happened again" and the bill was not sent. Friends are asking if they can break their contracts and I am not sure, any help?

The coverage map for Townsend 2463 (East of Maclean) says that all of townsend should have regional reception but I get no bars at all. Once in a blue moon I might get one bar. Telstra and Optus have a tower on Wharf Street at maclean lookout however vodafone only has a tower all the way down at Woodforde Island.
Essentially the coverage map is completely wrong.

ANYONE ENCOUNTERING NETWORK ISSUE IN BRISBANE AREA?
I M WONDERING IF THAT VODAFONE FAILURE OR THE FLOOD?

Just been advised by a Technician mate in Brisbane that the whole Vodafone Qld network has gone down due to a flooded main exchange. Surely they could of pre-planned for this and put in place contingencies for such services are essential at this time.

For the last 2 days I have had prolonged periods of NO reception whatsoever, and it's right in the middle of two major events that I really needed to be in contact, the birth of a new family member, and the flooding!!!! Thanks for absolutely nothing Vodafail, I was already sick of your poor service and calls dropping out, this seals the deal that I WILL be going elsewhere as soon as my contract is up!!!!

Reception non-existant! 100m in clear line of sight to a cell-tower that obviously Voda has no connection to! Lies on your connection page vodaphone! Lies!

What a freaken suprise. I have no reception again. Great, now I can't keep intouch with my relatives that are battling the QLD floods. There is no excuse for this too - This definately started before the floods. How the hell to I get out of my contract? I could scream!

i can't get reception on vodaphone!

What a freaken suprise. I have no reception again. Great, now I can't keep intouch with my relatives that are battling the QLD floods. There is no excuse for this too - This definately started before the floods. How the hell to I get out of my contract? I could scream!

I have had dropped calls at home and no reception at all at work, even both areas are well within Vodafone's service area. Been like that for half a year. Called V and after a while, got to technical staff. "reset phone" was first advice. That didnt work. "Replace SIM card". That didnt work. Called back to cancel my service, after a almost 90 min wait I finally got through. As soon as I said I wanted to cancel my service. They hung up on me!!
Now that's good customer service for you!!

Just had to pick my mum up from the city. She is from overseas so I got her a prepay vodafone mobile to use while she is here, as I am on Vodafone. I told her I would call her once I get to the city to meet her! After trying for over an hour and continually getting "network busy", "connection error", "number busy" (even though it wasnt) I finally got through, which left me in rush hour traffic on our way home....thanks to vodafone! Im so pissed off with them that I am actually gonna stand on my phone and get rid of it! Im done with vodafone, absolutely rubbish!

Just checked my reception time on my Android phone, 26% of the time I have no connection. Central Hobart too. Hope noone tries to call me.

my reception is always bad, my messages always come through a day or 2 late, calls always drop out, my friends hate ringing me because they can never hear me properly, i go to call someoneand it says call failed!! i hat vodafone it has ruined my life!! i wish i could get out of the contract more than anything!!

Based in Rosebery, Sydney. Poor reception and constantly having phone calls drop out. Very annoying especially when you are trying to run a business.
I have been unable to respond to emails for several months.
Now I keep on getting a screen pop-up which tells me "Network Lost" and another pop-up telling me that my voice mailbox is 100% full !!!

i have not been able to get reception for HTC legend at all at home for thwe whole time i've had the phone. It drops out in the street, has no ability to refresh without crashing. On the Hume Highway it is not available for long stretches between sydney and Melbourne.
The bills come to me late and I get charged for this. I am still on the complaint line (phone) which has already taken 40minutes for a service provider.

Dropping calls and general poor reception and service. I can't believe that their frontline staff in their stores are not able to discuss complaints and that we "would be better calling Customer Service". They can sign us up pretty quick, but when it comes to something a little prickly, they handball to the inefficient call centre that is "Customer (dis)Service".

Also a little concerned over the privacy things. Not sure how to go about ensuring my details are safe. I know they have issued a 'guarantee' of our security and privacy, but I take this with a grain of salt. Piss poor performance!!

i have constant call drop outs no coverage internet drops in and out and cant make emergency calls unless in full ocverage areas

Second time I've posted here...

Called 1555 3 times today (the call centre in fuckin' India!) and told them I want out of my contract. Told them that Vodafone breached the contract by not providing me with the services I pay for and the services they offered me in my LEGALLY BINDING contract. They preceeded to tell me that cancellation would cost me *cough cough* $486!!! I told them they can stick that and that they already owe ME money for failed services. They passed me up the line to their technical support section who tried to convince me there was something wrong with my phone... which I already know is perfectly fine as other network sim cards work without a problem. They put me on hold and then hung up!

So I called again... and sat on hold for 40 minutes... again... and explained the situation... again... and they passed it up the line... again... and I was told they would call me back... and then hung up on... AGAIN.

To think I once worked for this company...

Changed from another provider to Vodaphone 22/12/10, the next day after phone was all charged realised we couldnt get coverage in out house or local area, went back to Vodaphone store and was advised to call Vodaphone, which i did, they explained that there is issues in our area and they would forward my issue/problem on and we would have a reply within 5 days, they also sent a text message staing that, i have tried to call them numerous times and been on hold in excess of 45 minutes at a time and then get cut off, went into another Vodaphone store 9/1/11 and explained my problem that i cant get through to anyone and that the mobile is for work and that we have 2 small children and that we need to always be contactable, the staff member emailed vodaphone infront of me and advised me i would have a reply within 48 hours, to date i have had no reply or contact with vodaphone and we are paying for a mobile that doesnt work, what more can i do to change back to our old provider, this is ridiculous, TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, will be spreading the word to NEVER chnage to Vodaphone.

SHAME ON YOU VODAFONE!!! I am in Toowoomba and we are currently in crisis mode. My family has been worried sick as myself, partner and brother are all currently vodafone customers and have not been able to get in contact with ANYBODY via phone OR text all week in the middle of the flash flooding!! NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! Every other phone network seems to be fine. Too bad if we were stuck on a roof in the middle of all this flooding and were trying to call out for help and couldn't because of a friggen useless phone company!! Not only that, my partner and I want to swap over networks asap, but can't unless we completely change our phones/numbers as we have locked vodafone phones..we can't even unlock them until vodafone is back online (whenever THAT will be..website is even down and lady at All Phones told us not to even bother trying their customer service line...), and even then, vodafone with slap with an unlocking fee!! I can tell you right now, they are going to lose a LOT of customers in south-east qld this week.

I am in a flooded town Dalby Qld. Vodafone has a complete outage in this and other areas. The only provider do have this problem. My problem is that I cannot not use either of my usb modems to log on, I have no vodafone mobile coverage so 1555 is out of the question. When i got a landline to contact them after trying to talk to that recorded bitch, I was told by another recording that they had a problem and they simply cut me off. What a great company not to be with, as soon as my contracts are up I will be going to another provider.

Unprofessional that is it. I am a teacher and if I stopped teaching half way through or forgot to pass a message for a few days or forced my students to leave a message for me because I just didn't feel like working that day I'd be sacked. It is not much to ask. Have reception for your mobile phone, immediately pass on messages and give me what I pay for. Why should I have a phone that only works half the time? Maybe I should consider only rocking up to work half of the time... Hmmm.

Ormeau inside brand new home 0 reception on two iPhone 4's even using bumper cases. Its as bad as Optus, outside is average but as soon as you sit in the lounge room or study the phone flicks to No Services... pretty useless phone I think!

no network coverage at all -- phone shows fluctuating band strength just can't make calls or receive calls at all.
Have had coverage till end November 2010. Coverage is getting worse.

Customer Assistance Has been absolutely disgusting to say the least.

Does any body at Vodafone know what is going on at all.

this is no way to run a business.

No phone reception at all, anywhere. 22 hours ago they said it would be fixed within 2 hours????? So why do I still have no repection or why has there not been an update on the status to inform the customers. Ridiculous!

I moved to vodafone and signed up on the proviser that they would provide me with a service in exchange for my money. This contract was not met on their behalf as at least 3 times per day I will have 'no service' pop up on my phone or 'network disconnected' come up.
I feel that I have not been able to use my phone to nearly what I would have as the reception means that, on more than 10 occassions, I have not been able to use my phone as it was designed. AS a mobile phone.
I feel that it is only fair that I be reimmbursed for my last 4 months contract as I have used a land line to call mobiles when I would have used my mobile cap.
I am outraged that they can call themselves a 'mobile' company as I have had nothing more than problems.
Vodafail- absolutely!

I was in the middle of the Brisbane cbd yesterday, when I discovered that typically there is no reception on the vodafone network (funny how other providers seem to be unaffected!!!!!)I was trying to get ahold of my sister as the public transport was being shut down, and I couldn't get through, and when there was reception I constantly had the call drop out over and over again.

What on earth is the point of having a network that doesn't work when you seriously need it?!

I'm originally from NZ and was a vodafone customer there with no problems, now that I've moved here I've had problems with the network!

Same story as everyone else. Customer service used to be good but that is a thing of the past. Had reception issues for years now and supposedly in an area of full coverage. Sent an email to complaints and they replied with a generic paragraph on network services and wrote off the complaint as solved. ***Beware global roaming*** as i recently went overseas and afterdiscussing the call charges etc many times I discovered that they don't explin the fine print, to the point where they gave me false information when i questioned teh call rates. Thankfully they reversed the charges after i made a complaint, but i hd to do all the follow which was a timely experience.

Standing outside a telephone tower at Seaspray on the 90 mile beach.
Absolutely no service...COME ON!!!

At Port Macquarie thier coverage is terrible. Even in the CBD its hard to make or recieve a call without constant drop outs.

On the pacific hwy in this area the phone is virtually useless.

I have been a loyal customer with vodafone for over 14 years and this last year has been ridiculous the amounts of times the phone reception has dropped out for no apparent reason when the phone shows full coverage. A simple phone call taking four or more times to get through. This is not a function system. I want better service and an explaination,

Trying to get them to fix calls going straight to voicemail, asked them to check by ringing me today late WA time, to give people a chance to contact me etc....

They ring at 05:30 in the morning !!! Yeah bet we have some network congestion at that time of the day in WA

Complete idoiots

I'm so pissed off. I called up vodafone, firstly to complain about being told that my prepaid text and data plan would last for two months, when it actually only lasted for one month. The call person said that my matter would be resolved when she called me back in bout an hour. I never got called back. Or i might have been in an uncovered area of sydney city.... then i went to the vodafone store and talked to them and they said someone would call me to give me extra credit. That never happened either!!!!! I so hope we can sue them for ALL THE CRAP WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH FOR THE PAST YEARS. BTW i never get reception at home, however I don't want to pay to change companies, so i'm ready for action!! all troops to battle stations lol anywayz, hope our problem gets solved :) have a good one guys!

I keep having trouble with drop outs, trouble with contacting landlines..
Issues with reception are a part of poor quality reception leading to repeating myself constantly with sentences when having conversations.
Poor customer service, wait times, poor resolving issues, drop out issues relating to customer care, no follow up calls made after an event of a drop out from members of staff on over three occassions!!!
Issues with 123 directories, a memeber of staff was unable to provide in formation within a reasonable time frame, contacted the customer service after up a chunk of credit was chewed up after the event. Had to get a supervisor, who then only paid me half back my credit, how stingy!!!

I've been without signal for 3 days, telstras phones are fine but vodaphone, 3 and Crazy Johns phones are out. ( they are all on same network ). I can't contact my family to see if they are okay, my work can't contact me, I understand we are in the middle of a natural disaster but what is the point of having a mobile phone for emergencies if it doesn't work when you need it!!!

Living in in suburbs in Melbourne I usually have only 2 bars reception on my phone - have to stand outside in the rain so my phone call doesn't cut out and usually only get "emergency" reception when in my house. This is just pathetic, why on earth did i leave telstra? I cannot send photos, but get chraged for it when i try and the customer service does my head in - do not yell at me "Bob" from India, you are supposed to help me :( After just going to Merimbula for a week - i had perfect reception and very fast wireless internet - perfect - why on EARTH would in the inner suburbs of Melbourne not have this and a cournty town does?!!? - here's hoping that the company gets the pants sued off them, they go under and we can all get out of our contracts asap. Signing off - Peeved of Melbourne