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Dear visitor,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Until next time,

Adam Brimo

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12927 Someone from ACT thinks vodafone is Worse than useless at 18 Jan 2011 02:06:38 PM
Well the troubles continue today. I decided after lunchtime to keep a log. I'll probably need a PA to do the admin!

13:30 can't connect to Internet
14:03 tried 3 times to make a call
- connection error
- network busy
- success
15:00 managed to connect to Internet but performance virtually unusable
- timed out
15:31 tried 3 times to make a call
- network busy
- network busy
- success
15:34 managed to connect to Internet but performance virtually unusable
- timed out
15:56 can't connect to Internet
- tried 5 times and gave up
18 Jan 2011 02:10:58 PM: In addition to keeping a log, I'm going to spread the word on Facebook warning people not to sign up with Vodafone. Clearly the 'Infinite' plans look attractive until you realise they don't work. All the Vodafone shops seem busy signing up customers. I feel very sorry for them. Every extra customer that Vodafone signs up cripples even further the network infrastructure that isn't coping with the current demand. I am convinced this is a network capacity issue.
18 Jan 2011 02:27:54 PM: Yep your spot on. The merge between two company client bases have caused the amount of users to go beyond the limit of their network capacity. Meanwhile Vodafone is attempting to upgrade their network towers. We need a number of customers to leave Vodafone please, to help the company not exceed capacity! Just kidding.
18 Jan 2011 03:26:09 PM: yep i know, i walked past the vodafone shop in my shopping centre today and saw at least 2 suckers signing up, felt like running in there and telling them to get out while they can!!
18 Jan 2011 08:37:11 PM: One way or another I have convinced (easily I might add) 9 people not to sign up with Vodaphone.

8 mobile 1 internet..................a result I think............but wait there's more..................to come!!!!
18 Jan 2011 09:03:53 PM: Customers on 3 and V have not merged onto the one network. This is a myth. It will happen down the track definitely but not yet. People on the Infinite plans make up a tiny percentage of all their customers again no impact. The congestion is coming from smart phone users. I read somewhere that a data session on a smart phone wipes out about 100 slots for talking and texting on a network. (Don't know if that's exaggerated or not but makes sense to me)
18 Jan 2011 09:34:53 PM: Guess that is another possibility. Interesting. Unfortunately there is a exponential growth on smart phone adoption in the market. It's going to make it worse. Damn.
19 Jan 2011 10:05:36 AM: Yup good point about - the networks are completely seperate and have not merged YET. They just have the same senior management team etc, but not the actual network. Don't even use the same signup system or billing teams or anything yet. The network is still under capacity user wise, it is just the faulty network towers that have been causing intermittent problems over the last few months. Full details vodafone website