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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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18955 Someone from NSW thinks vodafone is Extreme Fail at 28 Jul 2011 12:40:45 PM
Unexplained Excess Data Usage = $2000 bill. Spoke to the 4th person at Vodafone - Mr Sagar (Supervisor Billing) who advised that the excess usage was due to updates being pushed out by Vodafone to my phone (without my approval / acceptance). Said that because the updates benefit me, I need to pay for the excess data usage.
With the TIO now. Has anyone else had this trouble?
28 Jul 2011 01:33:45 PM: yes, the manager said that their data were absolutely correct. Checked my invoice when its available, it seems that I started getting charged for data usage a few days before the "unexplained" excessive usage. Invoice items was wrong for one of the days I disputed.

Contacted TIO already and waiting for someone to contact me. (Also just received an email responding to my compliant 7 days ago. Replied the email and still heard nothing.)
28 Jul 2011 01:38:46 PM: Yeah sounds like my story. On the 13th, 23rd and 24th or this month, my phone somehow used 3.5 GB of data, on top of my 2 GB limit. I have been in touch with the TIO and now awaiting an outcome. I was told my Vodafone yesterday that it pust have been updates being pushed out by Vodafone for Apple, as the usage was starting in the early hours.
28 Jul 2011 03:02:39 PM: i changed from voda at the start of this year. I'm just so glad I did they just rip off their customers any way they can...
30 Jul 2011 10:38:28 PM: How can this happen? Apple always ask you before updating anything and the updates are usually done through the computer and not the phone. Plus you can ask them how and why and state that apple can only update your phone through the air if you were running ios 5 which isn't available to consumers yet, if they need proof take a screen shot of your itunes and if they try to blame you buy saying you downgraded your phone then state that apple doesn't allow their users to downgrade the firmware no matter what they do.
31 Jul 2011 09:41:50 AM: point is it *hasn't* happened.. the charges are bogus, i.e. Vodafail have randomly added large data charges to people's bills and some ppl happened to notice. Probably some sales manager within the company needs his bonus and to meet his target, so s/he devised a way of accomplishing that by adding charges in the hope that noone would notice. When you're overcharged you can spend the obligatory 20 hours on the phone on hold and speaking pigeon-English with some abhorrently-mannered people to try to get it fixed, or just pay it. Vodafail bank on people just giving up and paying - that's how they make their money. They arn't a company, they are a nation-wide scam. It blows my mind that the ACCC are so impotent that they cannot even stop the insidious organised crime syndicate that is Vodafail. The AFP should arrest Vodafone staff for fraud, because that's precisely what this whole thing is. A massive Vodafraud.