I have been a vodafone customer since last four months. It was okay at first place but has been weird since last few weeks. I have been dealing with dropped calls, no network coverage, more than a day delay of voicemail, delivery failure of text messages and mms within Australia and even overseas, very very slow 3G, takes forever to load even facebook. No wonder I am one of those furious vodafone customers. We neef to put a pressure on them for a month free of service, wont pay monthly cap. Hope this helps the vodafone authority to fix it with a promise of good service!

-dropped calls
-no service reception
-delayed messages
-Internet lags
-service unavailable when I want to check my balance

I have noticed for some time that when I pick up my mobile to answer a call (before enough time has lapsed that it's transferred to voicemail) the call would disconnect at hello. At other times when I make a call I can hear the ring tone but I cannot get through, the call disconnecting itself before reaching the other person. Because I don't use my mobile as much as other people do, I've just put up with the problem because I can't be bothered to switch to another telco. It was only after I read several SMH articles about Vodafone issues that I came to realize that this problem I was experiencing and still do is widespread in the Vodafone network. It's truly disappointing, Vodafone comes off as being unprofessional and not trustworthy.

Mainly very inconsistent 3G, I am in CBD and get very poor response.
Only really experienced serious call issues this week (not withstanding the December outage).
Had numerous dropped calls, inability to place SMS , but seem to receive ok (of course I don't know how many I am NOT receiving.)
Made worse by lack of local support after 5pm (call centre closes at 8pm EST)
Incorrect information about fault line being open 24 hours (still haven't found a 24 hour number).
Promises to receive call back after several hours attempting to connect were not followed through until I complained in writing.
Have asked to be released from our current contract so that we can find a provider that can provide.
We pay over $5000 per year for mobile services and do not think it unreasonable to be able to get coverage and response. Back to Telstra as soon as I get that release.

I have been with Vodafone for 6 weeks and have had 95% dropped calls. This spans usage from Mornington Peninsula to Armadale to Torquay. It occurs whether I am driving, walking or sitting absolutely still. How can I be on a call, sitting still with full reception one minute and the next droppped? Did someone move the reception tower? Ridiculous.

Call dropouts and I cannot call any number with +61 (oz code) at the front of numbers or any other nations code. I havent experienced delays in sms though.

I am from north. Everytime I ride train going home, I normally talked to my friends, the call always dropped and need to redial again

I had never really had many issues with vodafone until about 3 months ago when I started a long distance relationship. My last 3 bills have all been over $300 due to me going over my cap, which is understandable, BUT when I went in to the vodafone store to discuss moving to a higher plan, they told me to call customer service, who in turn told me that as there was no plan higher than mine anymore I would have to pay a $540 cancellation fee and then re-enter another 24 month contract on a different plan. Ridiculous! I was happy to stay loyal to vodafone and pay a bit more each month for more useage, but I think they took one look at my last 3 bills and realised I'd keep paying them the $300-$400 phone bills I was racking up! Very disappointed, never get good coverage and constantly get dropped calls too.

Dropped calls

I have frequent call dropouts and text messages are being sent three or four times with each message being charged.

Where do I start:

Waiting in phone queues forever.
Double / triple SMS's & then sometimes NONE.
Dropped calls / poor reception.
Took numerous calls to have my address change.

Delayed Sms, voicemail and regular dropped calls. Today I had a phone interview for a job and the call dropped out, they were not able to call back!!

I have delayed voicemail, no network coverage at times even when I am in CBD, my calls regularly drop out or last no longer than 2 mins and when I complained to Vodafone, after waiting for 6 hours for them to call me back, my mobile dropped out just after I launched into my complaint! Customer service of course did not bother to ring back. So not only do I have numerous Vodafone problems, I can't even contact them to complain about it. We recently moved and have no home line and I am so dependent on my mobile, yet everyday, it fails me. Driving me to have high blood pressure!

Have lost count of the number of times Vodafone just drops my call. It happens at least 50% of the time and usually after about 10 minutes. The call just drops. It nearly always happens when making Vodafone to Vodafone calls, which are free excpet for 20c flagfall. I used to think it was a deliberate move to make some sort of money from these calls by making me call again, therefore paying another 20c!!!!!

Dropped calls, data connectivity almost always falls down to EDGE instead of 3G. Quite often I get voicemails without missed calls (when I'm well within the coverage) and people tell me that they were routed directly to my voice mail.
I can't rely on my cell phone any longer !!

Vodafone customer for 3+ years here. I've been enduring constant dropouts, flakey reception and poor 3g data speeds for too long. I have an iPhone 3GS in 24 month contract with Vodafone (expiring December 2011, which can't come too soon.

I am in a rather unique situation because I also have a work phone which is an iPhone 3GS as well, same version of OS (4.02), but work phone is through Telstra. Telstra coverage is almost flawless (I travel interstate for work weekly) and always where I have limited to no coverage (3G or normal network) on my personal Vodafone iPhone 3GS I can compare to the Telstra coverage on the work iPhone 3GS. Telstra is consistently better every time I check, and I don't think I've had a single dropped call on the Telstra iPhone.

Vodafone on the other hand I'd say 40% of my calls are dropped (yes, even when I'm in CBD area in different states), or get to the point where its chopping in an out and the person on the other end of the call cannot here me.

Here is a list of the issues I have had in the past 3 week I have been a customer.

1 - Multiple dropped calls when calling another Voda customer less the 1 km away with the CBD.

2 - Failure to set up a new pre paid sim x2. Firstly after completing 90% of the process I got transferred and needed to go through the entire process again with an actual person. Secondly after completing the entire set up process and waiting for my number to come through for 6 hours, I called and was told nothing had been recorded and needed to do it all again with the customer service rep.

3 - After setting up my vodafone online, i then needed to reset the password, entered my number and was then told i had failed to answer my security question 3 times and was locked out for 24 hours.

4 - Tried to register my Credit card online, never used it before ever, but was told i had tried to register it too many times and could not complete.

5 - after being told by a CSR that the amount i topped up would determine which prepaid plan i could go on, i had to call customer services to change plans.

This is all within 3 weeks, after 3 years living in the UK i cannot believe how backward and prehistoric the vodafone network is in Australia. It is extremely expensive and incredibly hard to do anything involving changes to your account.

Oh and i forgot, after picking up a my new sims from a vodafone shop telling them i needed micro sims for a iphone 4, he gave me normal sims. I returned to the shop and then cut them down, but i still needed to trim the smaller sim to phone the phone.

Joke. Is Telstra any good?

it all started a few months ago when i couldnt connect to a call. i would need to attempt my call at least 10 times to get through. and the i would be happy chatting away and then bam call disconnects about 5 mins into the call with the message connection error. i rang customer service i was told the wait was over an hour so i chose the call back option. i did not receive a call back until 4 hours later and guy was not helpful. he kept telling me vodafone has no faults and that it was my phone. i kept informing him that i have tried several phones and i got the same error. he was insistent that i restore my factory settings so i did and it made no difference. in the past few weeks the service has gotten better but i would still like to see vodafone admit they were in fault and credit my bill for the inconvenience.

After spending 3 hours on hold to transfer to customer service, I was advised that the csr was going to transfer me to a department that could assist me. She transferred me to a call q that was closed. I was alos told that move form post pay to pre pay that I would need a new sim card which I bought and it was all a load of rubbish, didn't need to spend $30 at all. Dropped calls alot in 3070 and overall crap service.

Constant call dropouts followed by phone freezings. Have to reboot phone to get any call signal again.

Dropped calls, atrocious - mostly unusable 3G Mobile BroadBand, robotic voice on calls when they do get through. Some SMSs don't arrive till the next day.

I called Vodafail and after 45 minutes on the phone, I got told I can terminate my contract!

after promising coverage at my girlfriends house in Freeing within 3 months... we are 1 year later and still no improvement. there is no signal there at all. Their promises were the reason we both signed up (and that we could get free calls to each other).

After a lot of pressure they released my girlfriend from her contract because of the lack of coverage and she paid out $100 for the phone which she was happy to do. They refuse to release me because even though i made it clear when getting the phone that i would be up at her house a lot of the time (2-3 days a week) i didnt put her address on the form i put my address because SHOCK HORROR THATS WHERE I LIVE!!!!!!

They refuse to let me out of the contract because i didnt list her address even though vodafone misrepresented what they were telling me when i signed up.(on a side note they also lied to my dad about coverage when he signed up 6 business phones with them).

The guy on the phone said "if i go to the shop, find the person who said this to me then call back and get them to admit that they lied to me when i signed up, then i could be released from the contract" WTF!!!!!!

Anyway, added to that i am now on my 3rd iphone because of signal loss and dropped calls which were blamed on the phone, i spent a month paying for the phone and data package for the iphone whist using some crappy basic nokia without internet on it. It was quite obviously a problem with the network not the phone.


Anyway the ombudsman said i have a case and is now investigating.

I have a loyal Vodafone customer for many years (when they cool, funky and progressive!). Over the three months it has been disappointing to see Vodafone customer care quality service going downhill (once upon a time, Vodafone were great with customer service with people who actually did cared!). I have had problems like most who have experienced dropped calls, lack of reception in areas that once had full reception and receiving texts late (or never!), or lack of mobile internet coverage (I seem to be on "E" most of the time). The biggest disappointment, however, is the incorrect billing of phone calls and the adding extra charges out of thin air! This has happened to me twice already and it is really annoying and frustrating. I depend on my phone for business and it would be great if Vodafone came back to their grassroots and be the awesome telco that you wanted to deal with. Somehow, it seems to be only a distant memory...

1. Call dropouts are now a regular feature of my Vodafail 'service'
2. Emails are taking up to 24 hours to arrive
3. Customer Care staff cannot solve the problem - keep on getting to referred to another team.
4. My direct debit debit details that were in place for years suddenly 'disappeared' - wrote asking for an explanation - no response
5. On-line complaints receive an auto-reply and are immediately 'Closed' without the issue being resolved

We have dropped calls very often. Many times our friends complaint to us that why we do not pick up the phone but our mobile never rings. Many times we noticed the mobile did not ring but received that we just had a missed call.

I've been made redundant and I rely on my useless Vodafone service in a big way.
Delayed texts, dropped calls and poor coverage are not helping me. Can't wait to get out of the plan so I can change providers....

I have a 12 months contract with Vodafone and I have a pre-paid too. I can seriously tell I am experiencing the worse coverage I have ever seen.
Inside my house I only have coverage in one room, and even in there calls are dropped making a phone conversation a hassle.
When I was in the hospital last year, I did not have coverage at all, having to walk outside and search for spots where I could get at least as much signal so I could send/receive text messages.
Not to mention the customer service which is really bad, I feel like an idiot when I have to talk to Lara!
Just my 2 cents ....

I'm a doctor and have a 24month iphone 4 contract with vodafone. There are no pagers available so the hospital is reliant on my mobile to contact me. The coverage inside the hospital fluctuates and so when I am in the centre of the hospital there is no signal. This week I had 2 calls from nurses 30min apart about an increasingly distressed patient. I was not notified of their call and received a voicemail alert 30min after the patient died from cardiorespiratory arrest. I have been troubled with dropped calls and delayed voicemail alerts since signing my contract in September 2010.

Dropped calls. Slow if even working internet speed. Delayed text messages

Important work calls drop out meaning I have to phone clients two or three times before I can finish a conversation.

Disgruntled 9 year verten of Vodafail! (mind you only the last say... 2 years has been terrible)
*my sms's are delayed just yesterday one was delayed 6 hours, NOT cool
*A bucket load of "call failed" at least 10 a day!, NOT cool
*Consistently getting bull*#@! reception, NOT cool
*And dont even start me with the customer service. OMG after on average 30 minutes on hold everytime i get someone who not only cannot speak english very well, they dont understand me and its obvious they are not in the great land down under due to the silence when they are not talking, crackly sounds and massive delays when they are talking! I tried the 'go to the bloody store and talk to someone there' tactic and wow they apparently cannot help you at all ... out of the 7 different stores i have been to all but one told me to " call 1555 customer service" the other one asked if i'd like to know i could get out of my contract and in his words 'sign up to a better provider".... hmm EPIC VODAFAIL!

I have consistently faced dropped calls (Call Failed), data dropouts (need to restart the phone) and basically NO SERVICE for over 6 months now. I drive an 80km journey each way to work and have coverage for probably 15 minutes of it. I'm not in the bush, this is the F3 between Newcastle and the Central Coast. After growing tired of the 'network upgrade' story, I rang Customer support and left a message for them to call me back in 39 minutes. The automatic service did call me back, unfortunately I had three failed calls and gave up for the day. I tried again the following week and was escalated to the Network team.

I have had dropped calls, calls to me going directly to voicemail while my phone was on and all bars showing. There have been 4 dropped calls in two days (I think I made 6 in total!). No access to web services. I have complained twice to Vodafone, and have been given a months free "coverage" but have explained to them that I now have one month's free "non-coverage" and want the issue resolved. Sick of talking to people who can't resolve this issue.

My mobile broadband has not been available for over a month.

Inconsistent/poor coverage that constantly fluctuates. Poor data performance. Dropped calls, messages not sending, messages delayed, calls not coming through. Was lied to about my coverage upon signing contract. The usual tripe.

I never really thought that I had a problem until this news about Vodaphone surfaced. I hardly use my mobile, only in emergencies, or recently when I moved house. But my pain is similiar to others. My mobile would drop out constanty, requiring me to ring again,again and again, or my caller having to do the same.
As to retreiving my message on the 121 number, sometimes I would have to ring this number between 5-10 times in row just to get the message.

I just assumed that Vodafone, being a smaller telco, had less coverage and I just had to deal with it. I miss the days when I lived in New Zealand, where Telecom NZ let you dial a certain number so you could reconnect to a dropped call and get a minute free!!

I don't make lots of calls, but the calls I do make are mostly poor in quality, with people on the other end asking me to repeat a lot of things, or are unable to hear me well at all. It doesn't matter where I am; in the city, on the road, or at home. When people I talk to ask what carrier I'm with, I say Vodafone, which is invariably followed with, "Oh, I see", in an understanding, sympathetic tone. It's embarrassing sometimes.

TXT messages are rarely an issue, and I communicate mostly via that method, but I know I use txt's more that I would normally because I feel like making a call is just too painful if I'm worried about call quality when I'm calling a customer, for example. I'm only 6 months in business and I've been using pre-pay, but now I need to go on a plan due to pre-pay costing me the earth, and then some. I've delayed going on a plan purely due to concerns with being stuck in a 2 year contract and having rubbish service.

Since Vodafail came into existence, I've bee keeping an eye on quality issues and I can confidently say, there are two main issues for me. 3G internet can be slow to start and transfer a few kilobytes of data (I only check Gmail and my business mail), and call quality is mostly abysmal.

Thanks to the publicity surrounding Vodafail, I now know those issues are widespread and I assume I'm similar to many people in thinking those issues were symptomatic of not being with Telstra, or other larger telco.

I used to work in a call center for Telecom NZ, so I instinctively knew calling to complain would be a waste of breath and time as call centers and their staff are not set up to deal with such issues. Besides, the 45 minutes it took the last time I called Vodafone to sort out a simple roaming issue was an extremely painful 45 minutes of my life, so I rarely call Vodafone unless I have a really simplistic inquiry!

New customer on 24 month contract. Continual dropped calls. Having to stand in certain spots in the house to make or receive a call so I can actually hear the person. And the worst of all, delayed SMS messages that remain in the outbox and are not sent unless I physically resend. Reception can be shocking, can hardly hear what is being said so I am required to use loudspeaker. Thanks for this website.

FYI My Complaint below - I lodged this complaint approx 10-12 days ago - I also refered the matter to the TIO - Now My Wife and I have been approved to leave our contracts with 18 months to go with no termination fees - I told V I was going to the TIO and they didnt care - Made me get a new sim / do a so called investigation - during this process they called and said you can leave your contract at no cost -

Date of complaint: 12/01/2011 9:02:34 AM
Complaint: ONLINE ENTRY BY COMPLAINANT

Complaint Type: A telephone service
The complainant is the account holder
Member Name: Vodafone
Date of complaint: quite some time
Disputed Amount:
$
COMP CLAIMS:
n short I am a disgruntled Vodafone customer after using the service for more than 6 years. After my relentless attempts to contact Vodafone customer support to resolve my issues (the usual dropped calls, no reception, no 3G and delayed voicemail & text messages)

everytime i ring wait for min of 45 min on hold then i expalinmy story - they transfer me between departments and each time im on hold any where up to 25 minutes.

Where I live in my local area I have NO coverage what so ever on my phone - at home my i-phone 3G sits in no service or searching. Any where I travel in my local arera nothing changes - Im a account manager and rely heavily on my phone - i can travel to a number of locations in newcastl;e and get NO COVERAGE - also i have a young family and expecting a baby - i can not go with out a phone
MEMBER'S RESPONSE:
My 1st call to vodafone being on hold for 1 hour - telling my story to customer service - they transfered me to techincal support - i waited 25 minutes to get to them and they had no idea why i was transferedc to them - so i had to explain my whole story again - They said to termoinate contract would cost $460 S I HAVE 8 MONTHS LEFT ON contract - Why should I pay for a service carrier to which im not getting any service for what Im paying for?? They toild me to go to a store and do a sim swap and credit 1 month bill - big deal $70... I attended a store swapped my sim and NOTHING Has chanGED - IT ALL STALL TATICS - they in struct me to check setting on my phone - turn it on / off - nothing has improved
RESOLUTION SOUGHT:
I can not go Any longer with out a phone - I want the provider to rescind my termination fee - allow me to change carriers ASAP and NOT PAY a termination fee. I want to port my phone number to the new carrier. At the time I signed this contract I paid $200 extra for the 32 gig 3g i-phone - I want to take this phone to my new carrier - Also I want vodafone to do the same for my wife who is A VODAFONE CUSTOMER in the exact same situation - wave her termination fees. I dont want to dealh vodafone

My mobile won't work in my home office, but will work 10 metres away in my lounge room. VERY frustrating. When I get or make a call, I dare not walk around the house in case I get a dropped call.

I have a nokia e63. I am averaging 4 call dropouts per week, delayed sms and mms. Internet tends to run real slow at times and sometimes i cannot get onto the internet. I have also found that when the phone has full coverage at times and try to make a call it keeps saying connection error. Also when others try to ring the phone has full coverage but does not ring but goes to messagebank. I have to switch the phone off and on.

Live in Brisbane 15 kms from CBD - I experiance constant call dropouts probably 3 out of every call I make drop out. I use my phone constatntly for business so good reception is important. Also have constant SMS failures and delays ib receiving them.
"Not Happy Jan.
Fix it now.

I live in Canberra, about 10k from Parliament House. Yesterday (20/1/11) three calls to my Vodafone at home from a car service company located 15k away dropped out, with contact only made through fixed line. This is not the first time this has happened; it it the first time I twigged the problem was with Vodafone. Could someone please advise on an alternative service. That works.

Many dropped calls. No reception or very poor reception in many areas of Perth, including my own home. SMS message taking many hours to be delivered. Sent one yesterday at around 11.30 am and it was received by my colleague, also in perth, at 7pm - 7.5 hours later!!We are a small business and rely on our Vodafone service to communicate. It has never been great, but recently it has become unacceptable. I was in Indonesia during December and was very impressed with the strong signal strength even on remote islands!

Sick and tired of having a conversation and then the call drops outs!!!!! Or even the call won't connect!!!

No Service, Repeated and numerous Dropped Calls, Unable to make calls or receive them even when phone indicates sufficient reception, people call but phone doesn't ring or even register a missed call and I only ascertain the missed call later when the phone indicates that a voice message exists, Text messages sent days before and not recived until days later and in one case I received a text message several months after it had been sent - though in that particular case I had actually received that text. It is an absolute disgrace!

i want out, too many issues, dropped calls, call fail etc

Hi, I'm just here to advise all our Vodafone customers who are upset with our fantastic products and services to stay with us. Please give us another chance, we are taking our time attempting to somewhat resolve the national UMTS network issues via adding more GSM towers. That will alleviate capacity, since Vodafone has an strong client base of about 4.5 million highly satisfied customers and counting. Our merge with 3 has boosted our client base even further to about 7.5 million+, proving that Vodafone Australia is clearly the best option for a provider. If you all are still not satisfied with your current network service, then you should gently contact our wonderful foreign call centre. The adept technical support team will resolve the issues you are experiencing as fast as possible by offering unlimited escalations, language barriers, and misinterpretations. How great is that? You shouldn't be unhappy about our state-of-the-art Lara voice menu because she will provide you with all the transfers you need, including a bonus of up to 3 hour wait times, countless hours of exclusive music on hold, and the typical call cut off when you need it. We even conveniently provide no call back option since we don't want you calling back about how fantastic we are. Not only that, we have specifically poured our vast investment into Lara's voice recognition option so you all can enjoy a aggravating experience. We hope you believe she is a human, complete with our finishing touch of fake keyboard typing noises when she handles your account recharge or status. Vodafone is proud to announce the Infinite Plans. Not only do we want you calling and messaging as much as possible, we want every new or loyal customer to benchmark our network beyond the limit, leaving it unusable for other angry customers here. Included with the plans are super generous offers. You get frequent call dropouts points, almost no reception across the nation, exclusive sent messages arriving ages later, special barring of sending messages, lucky jackpot of erratic working calls, guaranteed lightning fast 3G speeds of 10Kbps average, and even limited access to your My Vodafone account. That's just unbelievable! If you are still not convinced to stay with Vodafone, then we'll let you in on a VIP offer. Your customer details will be accessed by criminals via our respectful employees. Don't worry, nothing is wrong, we'll reset the passwords every 24 hours and you won't be able to login to your My Vodafone account because we locked it down. If you are still concerned with that great offer, then just gently contact customer care, we'll offer you a special limited time 50% discount on your plan for 3 months. If you are going to leave Vodafone, then we'll give you another incredible offer of 3 months credit to your plan, so that you're stuck with us. Please stay, we don't want to face the TIO. Visit your local Vodafone store, the excellent caring staff will troubleshoot your mobile device or offer you another plan. This is Vodafone's primetime, please if you do leave, refer us to another potential customer because we need a big market share. Don't worry, Vodafone will take respectful and honest care with their customers. As you can see, there is no reason to leave. We offer the best products and services compared to other competitors. If you have any further inquiries, please gently contact our helpful customer care. If they can't get to you, try turning your phone on and off many times, otherwise find the ultra elusive call back option and we'll get back to you shortly as we are always so busy handling countless appraisals from our caring customers. If we don't get back to you, then wait 5 business days. If we get back to you and you're issue is not resolved, then it's not our problem. So please, we beg you not to abuse our sensitive compassionate staff in store. They are trying their absolute hardest to help you while serving under the company's oppressive commands. If your issues are still not resolved then give us a year to fix it, otherwise just leave with the help of TIO. All I can say is that those who leave are missing out on our famous marvellous products and services. We have the Infinite Plans, what more could you want? We are proud to be an Australian registered company with a call centre overseas. We hope you enjoyed reading this and are reconsidering your complaints. We hope you are convinced by what is stated here, to stay with us because you chose us for the best possible network in the first place. Thank you for choosing Vodafone. Power to you. - "An abused Vodafone Employee" P.S. - If you are having bad service for extended periods, please cancel your Vodafone plan as soon as possible, with the help of TIO for no penalty if you have to! They are so terrible recently. Rest assured.

Dropped calls as a vodaFAIL customer, delayed SMS which arrives a few days later after sending, Reception issues in CBD, long waiting hours to get to an operator, you name all the faults that can happen to a telecomms provider.. VodaFail has it all in one company...

dropped call, slow internet, no mms support (no, i dont want sending link to recepient) etc etc.

I have been with Vodafone for About 5 year. this last 6 moths has been unbearable.i have an iPhone 4, which is practically useless on the Vodafone network. Hundreds of dropped calls, the phone tells me i have a full signal yet cant use the internet because everything times out. No one can ever call me.

Im paying for a large data cap that i can never use. What an Epic VodaFail

I've been a Vodafone customer for a decade. They were excellent back then. Until 3 months ago my phone has went through call dropouts and bad reception. I can't believe what people are telling me is true, that there is serious issues with the network. I thought I was alone in this problem, but this vodafail site shows I am not. I think it's time for me to switch to Telstra since my problems are not resolved by the customer support that also dropsout. Why do you customers think Vodafone's network is failing on us?

i live at boambee east near coffs harbour..i can't even have a conversation,as it keeps dropping out..even in the middle of coffs harbour,i can't even make a phone call.shocking

just joined vodafone before national outrage. getting bad reception, dropped calls, no internet coverage at different times of the night

Recently moved to Manly (Sydney Northern Beaches). It is impossible to have a call connected for longer than a few minutes. Service seems to be better around CBD (where I work). Tried calling VHA a number of times over the last few days but either dropped out or gave up after 20 minutes.
Another example of the great Australian service standard!

Dropped calls and very slow internet access on iPhone 4 even when there is full service

Dropped calls, clients that I continualy have to call back as my phone disconnects all the time. Costing us more money each time I have to call back. Cant get onto anyone at customer service. No service at all. Its a discrace.

overcharged for shared subscription. charged for call dropouts & re-making the calls.waiting 2-3 days for emails/SMS. spending 40 minutes on the phone & not being answered by a bunch of *******
stop me now or I will take someone out!!!!
12 calls at least last Friday were lost. 6 of them were from my partner who was trying to get in touch with me. Thank god it was not something to do with my kids!!!!!

dropped calls, constantly getting message "your provider is no longer available go to settings to change" what a crock, undelivered texts, voicemails, missed calls popping up when phone has not rung, no signal on phone or mobile internet.All for the bargain price of $80 a month.

no reception, dropped calls, delayed sms, delayed voicemail

Sent vodafone a mail the 28/12 still waiting on a reply from them regarding dropped calls... sent another e-mail today regarding my plan which is $99 p/m but excludes international calls in my cap not what i signed up for... got a bill to be paid on the 4/1/11 for $150 dollars which has still to be paid for and i got a txt from vodafone that my fone will be cut the 17/11/2010 if its not paid by then... already paid my previous bill last week for 250 which should only be $99.... any suggestions

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!!

Constant dropped calls, no reception in home, on the train, on the highway, or even in Sydney CBD. Now the internet baddies have my personal information. Well done Vodafone.

Unable to connect,Unable to connect,Unable to connect,Call failed, Emergency services only, Unable to connect, Ring ring......Hello! Hi how ar....Call disconnected. Dialing again...Emergency services only, Unable to connect, Unable to connect, Unable to connect. Not again, better call Vodafone to find out whats going on! Ring Ring Hello, Vodafone is currently experiencing a higher than usual call volume. Your expeted wait time is 1 hour and 25 minutes.....Waiting waiting, 1 hour and 15 minutes later.....Call disconnected. Ane all this with full service on my phone.
I will say one thing though, they are currently looking after me with regards to the problem but its still not making my calls connect.

Dropped calls, VERY slow internet connection, incorrect and conflicting information from different vodafone staff, call centre is USELESS, billing inconsistencies, texts that never arrive- or arrive a day late. ARGHH!!! I want out! Only 23 months to go:(

The service is just getting worse. I would have believed with all this negative media attention and even the issue of apology we would have seen some improvement, but it's actually becoming disgraceful.

I had raised a complaint on the 7/01/2011 which came through email today (11/01/2011) advising that my handset needs to be troubelshooted.

I've had different phones and sims and still the exact same problem regardless.

- Call dropouts
- Calls sent direct to Voicemail or Engaged tone
- 0% throughput for data service

I honestly cannot believe they still think this is somehow related to the handset. I know it's most likely procedure for them to troubleshoot the phone in the first instance, but they did not even acknowledge the current network issues across Vodafone.

I have however sent back a blazing response advising i will be keeping a log of all dropped calls, undelivered calls from customers and data throughput for the next month and cancelling my service if there is no imrpovement as a breach of contract on Vodafones part. Oh, and seeking legal action for lost revenue.

Thanks to the maps and info on the Vodafail website and other sources including the ACMA databases; I have been able to identify the locations and radiation patterns of the VHA Vodafone cells in the immediate area surrounding the suburb where I live in inner Brisbane. The results were interesting. I live approximately 450 metres from the nearest cell which has 2 antennas with radiation patterns facing directly towards me. Every day I have full and long interruptions to my ability to make and receive voice, SMS, and data on my personal Vodafone service.
In contrast my work phone (identical handset to my personal one) is on the Optus network and also uses the same physical site for its cells and has an identical radiation pattern from its antennas and NEVER has any interruptions to the service and has any break in service for voice, SMS or data!
I am sick of lost/missed calls, dropped calls, delayed/interrupted voicemail, SMS delivery delays of hours and days.
Vodafone you are not providing the services to the level that I was led to believe when I signed my contracts, you have failed to meet your obligations under that same contract and your network usability has dramatically deteriated since I contracted you to be my provider.
On a recent trip to a major NSW rural centre (A major town with a large University) I discovered the hard way that only EDGE data was available on Vodafone in the area instead of the 3G data services available on Optus and Telstra. Whilst this may be due to the handset not being 900MHz capable but that does not explain why my 900MHz compatible Vodafone USB modem with wifi docking station was also only able to obtain EDGE data services at approximately Dial-up speed!
Voda you suck!

Massive call dropout, sms take forever to send and most of the time I can not access the internet. When I first received my vodafail handset it took 4 calls and numerous transfers to different people just to set up my handset for internet access, which rarely connects.

Constant call dropouts,ridiculous wait times (hours) in order to sort a problem they made in the first place. Without doubt the worst phone company i have EVER been with, and i have been with them all. If you are reading this and are considering vodafone, DO NOT EVER EVER EVER SIGN UP!!!!!!!!! WORST COMPANY EVER

No customer service. When I rang the wait was 40 minutes and growing. Sent email, still no reply from before Christmas. Call dropouts frequent with "connection error" showing and some messages not received till next day. What a joke of a provider. Am going to Vodafone shop to try and get out of contract today.

My vodaphone causes dropped calls, no reception and delayed voicemail messages

dropped calls, no reception,and delayed voicemail messages... this has caused me much personal pain as I did not recieve important messages or phone calls

We live in North Canberra - coverage is next to nothing (although has got better in the last week or so). I run a small business and use my mobile constantly between September-December last year I experienced probably close to 100 dropped calls or calls that just didn't connect.

I have been with Vodafone for close on 15 years (Digicall as they were when I started) and this is the worst I have ever experienced. I still have 18 months to run on my contract and I am just about over it all.

I need my phone for work and basically I can't. Poor reception, dropped calls to clients etc, sub par internet speed and coverage as well as sometimes not even connecting. Even when I call someone and they are not on a call it fails. This has been going on for around 6 months and it is not becoming any better. Im paying $99 a month for nothing...NOTHING.

An extremely distressing event occurred yesterday morning. I was having some problems with a very good friend and they agreed to call me to discuss the issue and the call kept dropping out and attempts at redialling only failed to connect very briefly. They called later and the call dropped out again, and they tought i had hung up on them! This has caused me great distress and has resulted in an already sensitive situation with a friend escalating into a possible loss of a very good friend. I believe Vodafone is materially responsible for the failure to provide a reliable service. I live in an inner suburb of the ACT!!, so would expect reliable coverage when i need it. I have call logs to demonstrate the failed dial attempts and dropuots. I am considering pursuing this matter further and believe i am entitled to compensation for personal distress and loss.

Have been a Vodafone customer for just over a month. Experiencing many dropped calls, poor internet service (3G), delayed voicemails. Should have chosen another company.

Yep Vodafone suck bigtime. Living in Franklin (Gungahlin) my wife and I supposedly have full coverage. Well that be a lie. We both have iphone 3GS's and we are lucky to get 2 bars when outside the house and when inside it is a crap shoot between 1 bar and nothing at all. Have also experienced call dropouts, text message issues (eg: receiver gets them 6 hours after sending them, can't send them at all). My favourite was when we went to see Bon Jovi in Sydney and the SFS. Missle of Sydney and I couldn't get coverage. And.... don't get me started on the call centre. Bravo Vodafone, Bravo!!!!!

Good to see that Vodafone is at least one thing: CONSISTENT. Now all of our records including credit card details, bank details and other identifying info of customers is readily accessible on the web to those that want to commit fraud, WHAT DOES ONE SAY HERE! Are they trying to make up for the lost income from call dropouts by charging for personal info to criminal organisations?
WAKE UP VODAFONE, NOW YOU REALLY HAVE NO WHERE TO RUN AND HIDE !!!!

I am in the middle of moving house and now I need to change all of my credit card details and passwords due to their inexcusable data leak. Also months of poor reception dropped calls etc. but this pales into comparison to GIVING OUT MY CREDIT CARD DETAILS TO ANYONE WHO WANTS THEM!!!!!!

Dropped calls, messages recieved following day, coverage not as promised. Mobile computer tech and business is suffering because "I never return calls or answer my phone"

I have had the same Service problems as Most- Delayed text send and recieve, dropped called ,etc. i decided to complain via email. The Alarm Flags in my head were raised when on the Vodafone Site i was required to enter my PIN NUMBER on a Non Secured Site (ie: the Secure Icon Was Missing from Vodafone Page). I hesitated about this but i guess becauase of anger at poor service i continued.
Now i read of a MASS distribution of Vodafone Client Details on the internet. NOW I AM VERY CONCERNED. Be Careful Dealing with Vodafone. YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION IS NOT SAFE.

After reading some stories on this site, my problems with Vodafone are all too familiar with mainstream complaints. Call dropouts after a few seconds, meaning another call cost charge/connection fee a few times in one conversation; hardly any reception where I live (Bunbury area, south of Perth); trouble sending smsand pxt as most times pxt not even send!!; on hold for extremely long periods of time and when I finally reach customer support are then re-routed to same number to dial or even back to original person,have trouble understanding non-english support teams!!; no satisfaction when trying to quiz my account and they cover up inadequate esponse with 'fake' niceness; cut off my service without prior warning and generally...a great desire to cancel contract ASAP!!
Not happy.

I have had ongoing problems with vodafail over the past few months with poor internet coverage, call dropouts and not being able to make calls when my iphone tells me i have full reception! "Call failed" is something i have become very familiar with. As of yesterday morning i have not been able to make or recieve ANY calls, however my phone is still telling me i have ample reception. Some messages are getting through and others aren't. I am extremeley frustrated as i am unable to contact vodafone via phone to find out whats going on nor can i find an email address on their website as the "contact us" email facility is down. How convenient.

I posted about my frustration on facebook and somebody suggested i need to turn of 3G, i have no idea how to do this or what this means.

I have had all of the problems on this site, dropped calls, texts that would have been faster sent by pigeon post. So bing a good chipmonk i complained on the vodafone website and THEY CALLED ME - it was so unpected I wondered if it was a hoax. Some poor bozo on a chain read the script telling me that they had taken note of my problems and would TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN PLANNING improvements in the area. They had now idea when this would be. Rather than say I would take this into account when planning to pay my account, i went to Telstra and signed up. See you in 10 years vodafone.... that is if the company still exists. I have a new word for Vodafone's board to learn - NOW!

we have 2 phones on contract with vf and have to stand in the middle of our street to get reception. we get the same as everyone else, long holds and dropped calls. over all their plans are good but just cant use them.

I am (was) a very long term Vodafone Customer who up until approximately 12 months ago was reasonably content with their service. I accepted poor coverage in regional areas and was constantly assured every time I took out another contract that 'the network was undergoing upgrades and would continue to improve'. It has since got progressively worse and is now completely unreliable and for the most part, unusable.
Living near the Brisbane CBD I now suffer continuous dropped calls, 1 bar of 3G (if I'm lucky), sporadic and poor data downloads, late SMS or voicemails, poor battery life due to continual network searching and an Iphone that works wonderfully as an Ipod and media device. It certainly doesn't run up a huge phone bill as it is spectacularly useless as a phone.
I also have a 3G mobile broadband USB device that has failed to work at all in terms of receiving my supposed 3Gig of free data per month. After numerous complaints and the standard 'technical investigations' Vodafone agreed to reduce my account by $10 per month after it admitted I lived in a poor reception area (7 kms from the CBD on a hill????).
So now I have a 3G USB device that serves nicely as a paperweight and an Iphone that I can listen to music on.
I now have to rely on a Telstra prepaid (a common theme from others on your website) to make calls. My constant complaints to Vodafone in relation to my phone reception was constantly met with the advice 'Switch your phone to 2G'.
If I wanted a 2G phone I would have damn well bought one. I paid for a 3G service and I don't have it. However their complaints system is so poor, wait times are so long, and requests are met with vague and generic 'investigations' or 'transfers to another team' that their expertise in bureacracy and spin rivals that of 'Yes Minister'or a team of spin doctors on Red Bull.
I contacted Vodafone last night (3 separate calls with an average 40 minute wait time) and advised I was cancelling my service. I was offered the same...wait for it...'technical investigation' (read stalling tactic)and advised I would have to pay the rest of my 18 months of payments (nearly $1200) to be released.
I am now working in direct support of the Queensland Floods in a senior planning position and my phone is critical to my work. I now have the phone switched off and transferred to another phone in order to ensure I am contactable.
I intend to pay the full amount as I am sick to death of dealing with customer service and their mythical 'technical investigations' (you don't need to be a communications engineer to determine that the network simply can't cope with so many smartphones competing for bandwidth)and leave in absolute disgust. Evidence will suggest that a bad customer experience generally results in advising at least ten of your friends of your experience. I intend to tell as many as I can to steer clear of this network as it continues to offer cheap deals and handsets with minimal or no reception.
I have contacted Australia's largest Telco who are very happy to match Vodafones price and guarantee the quality of their network. They also offered an incentive to transfer (they must be doing a roaring trade) and expressed they are dealing with many Vodafone customers who have given up in sheer frustration.
I am now nearly $1200 out of pocket and disgruntled with exceptionally poor serice and coverage. Quite simply I have had enough and will never go back to Vodafone.
I sincerely hope many others are released from their contracts, I have chosen to give up rather than spend my valuable time battling a huge corporation.
Incidentally I am more than happy for anyone from Vodafone to assess the veracity of my complaints and view for themselves the poor state of reception in and around Brisbane (not forgetting the national highway system, regional areas, inside buildings and in full view of Vodafone towers). I doubt however, that they will and fully expect the customer service offer of a 'callback; in 24 to 48 hrs (again a familiar theme on your website)will fail to eventuate, as will my 3G reception.

For the past few weeks I have been having issues with bad signal strenght, which quite often leads to "no service" show on my HTC Vodafone mobile or even dropped calls.

We have been receiving countless dropped calls, painfully slow mobile phone internet connection and wait times so ridiculous that you can only hang up in frustration. Not to mention a growing number of staff that are absolutely incompetent in dealing with ANY issues and that will constantly flick/transfer you to the 'right' department or just plain hang up on you. I have worked in a call centre before and I know how call stats work and the pressure the staff are put under to reduce reduce reduce their talk time which ends up with the staff just hanging up. It really is coming across as though VODAFONE is just getting too greedy by not training their staff and by downgrading their service and reception so as to lead a price war.

just had 6 call dropouts to the 1 phone no. in the space of 7 minutes! despite my phone showing full network coverage.. called 1555 after being on hold for 5 minutes got recorded msg "looks like we're having technical problems, you'll have to hang up and call back", then disconnected!!! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GET OUT OF MY CONTRACT!!!

QUESTION??? I complained in december (the 26th i believe) about handset and network issues. Since lodging the complaint Vodafone have replied asking for bits of information (i.e. date and times of dropped calls) and admitted that the network in my area (southern sydney ) has failed. Despite this admission they wont reply to me with a solution, the last two emails have simply been them asking the same information over and over i.e. requesting my pin number (which they have asked for three times - you can see it in the reply history of the email) and asking about fault information which they already have. Has any one else had this? At what point do you go to the Ombudsman??

long gone is customer service.
30 min wait whilst listening to untuned radio to speak to a person in indian call centre who then explained to me they were extremely busy due to the merger of 3 customers... what crap. then i was told she would put through to another line so i could activvate my new sim. Aftter my transfer went through finally, the message said it was outside of business hours please call back and it hung up on me!
I have ignored the 30 or so dropped calls a day, thinking that was the price i had to pay for an "unlimited" service.. it never works. now i have iphone4 and cant get it working. silly me for resigning with what used to be a great company. now they are greedy.

Have been a loyal Vodafone customer for many years, but since I signed up for another 24 months to get an iPhone 3GS, have had nothing but network dropouts, dropped calls and missed calls. Because I use my phone for work, I had to switch off 3G to improve the network signal, but now download speeds are terrible, which pretty much defeats the benefits of having an iPhone!

In short I am a disgruntled Vodafone customer after using the service for more than 6 years. After my relentless attempts to contact Vodafone customer support to resolve my issues (the usual dropped calls, no reception, poor battery life and delayed voicemail messages) I have no choice but to search for a new carrier.

Just today 6th Jan 2011 - I called vodafone call centre 1st 3 times was cut off afer 30 mins each on hold - the 4th call went for 1hour 20mins. I complained about my famous "no service / searching" on my apple i-phone - Ihave 8 months remaining on my contract and all they can say is - Oh sorry sir - we are always upgrading our towers (6 years you told me this) and I will credit your bill this month - Big Woop$69 !!

Now they want to do a investigation to confirm the service / newtwork is fine in my area which goes for 2 weeks before they decide weather or not I can leave with out termination fees.

Its been 6 years thousands of $$$ Im sure you can spot me $500 and let me leave for good.

i have had months of dropped calls, patchy reception, missing voicemails yadda yadda yadda you all know the drill.

so after studying up on vodafail, decided that the email approach would be the most efficient way to complain. But oh no, the VFail are obviously on to that - their goddamn online complains for is down! Seriously.

I got this message - Apologies, but our email form is temporarily out of order.

EPIC FAIL.

So I decided to give vodamoan a call last night while i made sure i entertained myself with something else... expecting to wait. 40 mins later they answer.. in a very helpful tone mind you.. all happy happy :-)

I politely asked them why the wait was so long and their explanation was umm... kinda... not quite convincing. They were very busy in their call center but not because they have lots of customers calling them lol.. short staffed? I asked... No. She tried to get me off topic.. so in response to her question hehe I asked is there something wrong with their network... she says No..quite a few times reassuring me!! I mentioned that I didnt want to sign up a new contract if they are having network problems and I have difficulties getting through to them. She assured me that wasnt the case, altho never did quite explain the delay. So she starts asking me questions about what service I am interested in.. and I reply... could the delay be a result of vodafone failing to provide the services they claim to in their contracts? Or could the volume of calls be some of the 10,000 plus people who have logded their complaint on vodafail.com in the last 2 weeks and the have legal action pending? Have you heard of them?? Or could it be some other people who are in the same position I am forced into with my vodfone where I have to chase reception, constantly deal with dropped calls yet still pay the bill etc etc. I was met with silence from her end.

All of a sudden she suddenly became aware of the network issues.. and apologetic when I started to tell her the problems they have caused me over the last year lol.. so nice of them to care so much they apologise!!

Yet the "so n so" would have signed me up then and there if they could have, even tho i made my concerns clear.

They are doing the same thing 3 was doing years ago.. playing down their problems till you gave up or died from stress.

Say NO to contracts !!

i can be on the phone and without any reasoning a call will dropout.
other instances 3g and internet just dont exist, or i get a stupid repeating message timeout, lost internet connection, (i'm on there alot as an ebayer)
i can randomly receive messages half a day later than when they were sent, and sometimes get the next one first,

BUT best of all, when my phone is with me (always) and i have plenty of so called reception, people will attempt to call me (also with plenty of reception) and the call will go straight to voicemail (without any call divert on)
i have only made the jump to voda from optus prepaid,
voda have been ok dont get me wrong but is there a better network provider out there?
anyone with any suggestions that live in the kingsgrove area in sydney?

I have been a Vodafone customer for over 10 years. I never had this much problems, the last few months have been plagued with dropped calls, no data connections. The area where I live (Hurstville) seem to be a massive black spot! even GPRS data converage is minimal and even that keeps dropping out.

Similar things happen in North Sydney and that area has one of the best coverage from my experience.

I have to constantly turn off Data connection and turn it on again to re-established connection and that's no guarantee that the connection will hold.

Disappointed!

Will be moving to Optus if these issues are not fixed soon!

I shot a video about Vodafone's performance is an average situation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2Hf44LOoc

My story: I signed up for Vodafone about 18 months ago because my girlfriend was a big fan and we both got the $69 iPhone 3g plan when it became available.
We lived in Randwick (6km from the CDB) but we had problems with the coverage straight from the beginning. Basically I couldn't make a call inside my apartment without a dropped calls. As for using the internet it was constantly changing from 3 bars through GPRS (2.5G) to No service and back.
Back than I was a student and I didn't use the phone too much at home so it was fine, however I noticed it was gradually becoming less reliable and slower and slower to a point when when the internet totally become unusable at peak times.
My girlfriend decided to quit her contract she contacted Vodafone 4-5 times waiting someone from customer service to answer the phone for hours. At the end Vodafone let her go so now she is with Telstra. You cannot compare the the quality of the two services. No drop calls, customer service in 3 minutes, internet is about 10x faster download and 30x faster upload speeds.
I often have to use her phone to look things up and make calls.

Disclaimer: I used to be a Vodafone employee in Europe working for the network support team. While I was there Vodafone did exactly the same, it offered unlimited GPRS internet for cheap. Within 2 months the data service was unusable. The funny thing is most of us didn't have phones with GPRS, so we couldn't test it on the field.
I guess it is the same here. I suppose most Vodafone employees have blackberries. They are also located in Chatswood where I guess coverage and the 3G performance is great.

Extremely poor reception unless im within 1km of a relay station, data speeds are ridiculous, and dropped calls no matter where i am has become so damn frustrating!
My girlfriend changed to Telstra (from Vofafail), and the service is unbelievably good! No dropouts anymore, fast data, very good reception wherever you go..
Everytime i use my phone and it drops out, or is slower than connecting to dial-up, she shows me her phone and, my gosh.. full bloody reception each and EVERY time!
Vodafone, time to wake up. You have 2 months before i switch to Telstra.

Been on a plan for 18 months now, counting down the days that I can change to a service that will give me coverage. I am in Dapto, most of the time I am lucky to get a couple of bars but that does not stop dropped calls from happening. If I am downstairs in my house I have to sit the phone over by a window to get any reception at all, if someone calls me I then have to run upstairs before answering or I will lose the call. 3G, HA! If I stand on one leg and wave my arms towards the Sun God Mardok while uttering a chant maybe, otherwise forget about it.