1,510 Customer Reviews over 38 pages
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- Warrington
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2021-08-17
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There was an internal administration error at Vodafone which caused our broadband internet to be disconnected. After spending hours on the phone with Vodafone support being switched from one person to another, we were told that it will take 14 days to reconnect back to the internet. This is unacceptable as we work from home and Vodafone’s mistake has caused us a lot of inconvenience and stress. We decided to cancel our contract and will be looking for another provider. We have been with Vodafone for years and their customer service and technical support used to be a lot better.
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- durham
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-07-09
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Vodafone broadband not that good and no wonder they say if they don't get your guaranteed speed then you 15% off your bill reason is because they don't want you to leave and tech team was much use as a chocolate fireguard like bt and there corroded old technology lines what have been paid for over and over in ripoff line rental .Would I recommend these no as only getting the min speed which I don't know why they say on the stupid bt website btween 23mbps and 32mbps when you lucky to get min speed . ripoff Britain
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- Dundee
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2022-05-02
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Vodafone pro work fine whe full fibre is active. I had a fault within 1 week of getting it installed and it switched to the 4g backup which was pointless. The 4g speed is unusable. Can't watch Netflix or anything else. Pointless backup.
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- Birmingham
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2021-09-05
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Installation was a nightmare - I was promised a date and it was actually installed months after, leaving me without any broadband for weeks. Customer service throughout was a nightmare with endless phonecalls with clueless staff and no continuity in support.
I eventually got a compensation deal which was way less than they would have been forced to give were they a member of the ofcom automatic compensation scheme, that they have said they're joining imminently for several *years*. They refused to negotiate and I didn't want to deal with the paperwork for the regulator, so had to accept their pathetic offer.
Finally, the router they provide does not allow you to change the wifi channel, forcing all sorts signal strength issues and interference with bluetooth, etc. Baffling.
Almost impressed to find a worse provider than Virgin Media.
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- Bradford west yorkshire
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-07-14
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Swapped to vodaphone fibre June 2018 was told I would get a great speed all went smooth in the transition etc that's where it ended as soon as I got connection
Was sold all whistles and bells and the promise that if the speed was an issue they would resolve it and reduce the price until fixed
Well been with them now two months the speed is not fixed it's the slowest speed I've ever had and my bill is lower that's it
And they have told me I have the right to cancel as they have not delivered what they said they could can't even deliver the minimum speed guarentee either
Big mistake swapping services sounded great with all the promises of doing what other companies don't
I would have happily paid more for a higher speed didn't join to get a lower speed
Joined to get a promised better speed and service from a company as big as vodaphone you think they would be able to deliver
Not make false promises
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- Milne
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2022-01-12
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After a dreadful time, I switched providers and Vodafone even got that wrong. I am currently without landline or broadband as they stopped the service early when I repeatedly asked them not to.
The last time I dealt with a company so chaotic and dysfunctional was Solarplicity, who went bust soon after. The one plus is that forewarned, I have sold my Vodafone shares.
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-08-28
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I have spent many months now trying to resolve an issue with my broadband which impacts my business significantly, not least because my business phone line remains dead despite many hours spent on the phone to Vodafone. The broadband is fast when it works. Other than that I have nothing positive to add. Many broken promises to fix/call me back/take ownership of the problem until it’s fixed and still, my business is being impacted very negatively by the lack of a functioning landline. I certainly wouldn’t recommend the service to anyone looking for reliability and a competent Customer Service team
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- Croydon
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-10-03
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I have been with Vodafone Broadband for over 4 years now and was happy until now.
If I look at all of 4 years, I had a good reliable service - until I didn't needed to contact them (help was needed as the connection went down for no apparent reason).
Their "technicians" and customer service agents - who couldn't care less whether I stay with them or not.
Therefore, I decided to move on.
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- London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-07-24
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Customer service is really bad - asked for cancellation, told to await contract end. Then was asked to pay for another month, as Vodafone requires additional 30 days for cancellation purposes. Awful experience
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- Gillingham
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2017-09-21
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Not getting the speeds I pay for 50% of the time I'm on it. Customer service is ok but was told my speeds are in the limit I'm paying for by thier technical support team. Got the 60 meg deal getting speeds of average 25 meg. TV keeps buffing videos on tablets same as tv. End off contact I'm leaving.
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- Halifax
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2017-02-21
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I signed up in January online to the 76mb package, it was supposed to get actived on the 24th of January which then got pushed to the 4th of Feb, no biggy, then the router turned out to be faulty so I had to wait for a replacement and sent the other back, then when i finally got it plugged in turns out I'm on the 38mb package so I rang up to be told tomorow it'll change over, ring up tomorow and they say the operations team will ring you within 10 days. 10 days pass, no call, no email. A day later I get a text saying it'll upgrade within 24hours, it didn't. I keep ringing everyday to get told tomorow everytime and also thirty pound credit one time to compensate apparently. We're now 6 days past then and no upgrade, I called today to be told tomorow again, she also offered me thirty pound credit again to which I replied I'd already been offered that to which she replied that I haven't got that basically and she can't see any evidence of that ever being offer to me on the system. Seems abit of a joke to me, the customer service are friendly but nothing is gets done.
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- Carmarthenshire
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2019-05-03
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While checking out these reviews due to consistent drop-out of internet since upgrading to "Superfast 2" in February, I realised that potentially I am stuck in a loop as Vodafone continues to ignore there is actually an issue with Broadband service. I wrote this to the Vodafone UK Home facebook page: "Been with Vodafone BB for over 2 years now. Upgraded to 'Superfast 2' in February this year. After lots of confusion, it apparently kicked in. But, getting lots of drop out (any time of day). Got some very frustrated "on-line gaming" boys in the house having consistent interruptions to the internet service. Having had enough, was going to ring Vodafone today to discuss the issue and found these reviews online. Seems Vodafone is in denial about the "not fit for purpose" service. So, do I go down the talk to someone and get nowhere scenario? Do I decide to get out of the contract early and face a nasty disconnection fee (because Vodafone refuse to acknowledge problems with the internet/router)? Do I then go to the ombusdman and face a long drawn out "fight" to get out? Or do I (and my sons) grin and bear it until the contract runs out and find a new provider.". I then found a link to contact Vodafone CEO and within an hour of emailing him, he responded, I have had an email from customer service and now a message left on my answer machine. It pays to contact the CEO directly. Not sure of the outcome as it is early days but fingers crossed.
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- Paignton
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-07-26
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Absolute worst company I've had the pleasure of dealing with. Customer service doesn't know what it's doing at all. Was promised full fibre. Promised an engineer that didn't turn up although I took the day off to see him. Next time he went to wrong address. Finally after a month and a half of waiting with no internet told me I couldn't have full fibre. Rubbish.
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- Wolverhampton
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2020-05-09
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Absolutely poor customer service, I dont often say this but there is a reason why its cheap. Avoid at all costs.
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- Newtoft
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-12-31
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Broadban is easy to connect and speed is good for my need but setting up broadband to meet needs of my family is a total nightmare! I with another provider I could connect to router in offline mode and I was able to set up individual time for each device which is impossible here and softwae is is user unfriednly and very primitive in comparison to other websites. I would not choose vodafone despite a good price if I knew that software is so bad.
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- TEESSIDE
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-05-10
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Well well somebody worse than my other ISP TALKTALK and ORIGIN yes after all the cock ups trying to change my address 4 goes that took 2 router was supposed to go live 11 April then told it was a new order it would be 17 April router arrive plug it in no joy ,rang VODAPONE only to be told it was 24 when I was going live DOH many apologies offered and accepted .finally went live 30 Mb was the speed rang somebody on Sunday of this week told them my probs downloaded on OOKLA speed tester .then told to monitor the speeds ,received text telling me no fault on the line but speed was upto 58Mb I returned my first router to my local VODAPONE told them my problems given instructions of how to increase speeds I've tried to access this 192.168.1.1 10 or more times it gave me a temporary password and despite talking to somebody last night and somebody this morning I'm no further forward ,this person I spoke to promised a return call that was at 8.23 it's now9.50 obviously I'm not of any priority ,this I've seen on reviews of VODAPHONE on this site also somebody again on this site was told by a VODAPHONE team leader that customer service was crap I think was the word used so what now ? I think I,l send this router back to attached to a house brick ,just joking it's a bloody mind field this bloody internet providers it really is Tara folks I'll keep u posted
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- Leeds
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2020-04-09
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Two home moves messed up. 18 months ago when I moved address they messed up the reconnect and left us without broadband for 6 weeks. They compensated with unlimited data on my mibile but that was not the service level I was expecting.
Fast forward to today and they have accidentally cut off my broadband a month early for a home move with no way to reconnect. Unlimited data again, but two of us working from home for at least two months now during COVID lockdown before they can even connect us again. Laughable incompetence.
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- Harrogate
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-08-14
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Despite promising me that I could keep my landline number, I have lost it, and the combined forces of the Chief Execs offices at Vodafone and BT seem incapable of retrieving it. Vodafone have now agreed to compensate me. Do not believe them if they say you can keep your number. They will give you a new number and then have no interest in porting your old one.
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- Stoke on Trent
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2019-07-30
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I test when response is slow, often down to 10-12Mbps although the Vodafone app says all is well at 40. They say they will compensate for reduced speed but how do I prove it? The online help is a good contact point via the customer account page.
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- Rezende
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-12-04
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3 days my broadband does not work. How can I work, can I have some compensation?
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- Coventry
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2022-09-19
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Customer service for any issues are absolutely pathetic
The broadband itself it OK
But if u ever have the misfortune of rining customer service, you will want to kill yourself and them by the end of it . The staff (multiple) are so poorly trained that they don't know what they are saying or doing
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- Norwich
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2017-11-02
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I haven't even started my broadband yet and I am already annoyed. They changed the install date, the day before it was meant to happen with no explanation, when I rang up to ask why, the guy just stuck me on hold to get rid of me.
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- London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2019-10-03
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VF have been fine, right up to the point when I moved house. Gave them as much notice as possible....that is, I told them as soon as I had a completion date and I was given an activation date for the new property. On the date given I gave them a call only to find out that clearly the concept of someone moving house was too difficult for them to grasp, and rather than move my broadband they cancelled my entire contract. 4 departments and one hour later I was told the only thing they could do was to start a new contract, which they wouldn't rush through or compensate me for the errors on their part. So, off to another provider, thanks for nothing Vodafone
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- Bromsgrove
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2022-12-16
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Have had Router fault not recognised by Vodafone, broadband worked fine for 9 months now is useless. Found the problem was with the 2.5ghz signal. They can't see it and refuse to replace the router.
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- Derby
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2024-01-27
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Previous person at my property used Vodafone. They cancelled their service and I joined. It took over a month, 3 different contracts (that Vodafone repeatedly cancelled without warning), endless hours on the phone to people who had no record of the previous calls, until we eventually got our broadband live. Wish I'd never tried to stick with them in the first place. They reassured me it would be easier and quicker to stay with them. Over that terrible changeover period, where they kept cancelling our contracts, in which we had no internet and had to tether off our phones while working from home, we were promised compensation. That never came. Cue more phone calls to a hapless support team. Finally they said they would give a lesser amount of compensation than previously promised. It was to be taken off our future bills. 3 months later, we're still getting billed the same amount. And now we'll have to try a few more hours on the phone to their support team. It. Never. Ends.
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- Streatham, London
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- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-06-22
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when the service was finally up and running it is very good, but beware the switch process was full of problems which took 6 weeks to rectify only after I had to do all the chasing to get Vodafone to do as they had promised. customer service was absolutely pathetic, and we were continually lied to. I would recommend that you consider another service provider
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- Wiltshire
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2020-01-25
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I've got the superfast 2 package and generally get good speeds of around 70+Mbps. This sounds great but Vodafone have traffic shaping in place and I get a lot of buffering issues when streaming. Haven't had issues with the big players like YouTube, Netflix, etc. but others services are impacted greatly especially during (and not limited to) peak hours. As soon as I connect to a VPN, I no longer have the buffering issues so definately Vodafone restricting the traffic. They do offer competitive pricing especially if you're a Vodafone mobile customer too, but not worth the pain of having to deal with buffering ruining a movie which shouldn't be expected with speeds of around 70M. Will definately be moving away when my contact ends.
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- Bournemouth
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-10-29
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Installation a week late. A week later, dozens of phone calls and hours on the phone to tech support and still no connection. Disappointing
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- Derbyshire
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-01-04
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Beware of this Company, customer care is non existentant.Very disapointed,unfortunately should have read all review sites before taking out 24 month contract ( stuck with them for another 23).
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- London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-06-10
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Have had broadband with EE, TalkTalk, Plusnet and then decided to upgrade to Fibre for the first time with Vodafone on an 18 month contract. Now I keep having an issue with poor connection with a service that is suppose to be fibre and more bandwidth than my previous broadband providers and being a single user as I live alone and sharing the connection with no one and yet I keep getting poor connection or no connection messages on device and streaming service despite sharing with no one. I find the service very slow and poor at odd times during the day, weekends and evenings for a fibre broadband service and can't wait for contract to end.
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- Northampton
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-05-23
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In my experience doesn’t live up to standards, a lot of cutting out and the speed doesn’t live up to what was advertised
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- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2024-01-22
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Now throttling traffic at evenings
900 runs at 10.
Time to leave luckily contact up in 3 weeks
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- Southampton
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-10-04
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We came across from Sky after seeing a good offer.
We have had nothing but trouble with them throughout this year.
1. The customer service was abhorrent. Worse than talktalk, worse than any other company I have dealt with. I was lied to repeatedly about speeds and why they weren’t taking the money out of my account, they openly called me a liar despite me showing them proof I was correct. Not just once, for five consecutive months. I was cut off each month despite proving each time they were wrong. It is difficult to describe how atrocious their reps are until you deal with them.
2. The speed is quite good, I like the way you can increase the broadband towards certain devices on the mobile phone app, however the range on the router is transient at best an can be very poor just ten feet away.
3. Their much self praised router isn’t the worst I’ve seen but it isn’t the most reliable I have had. It can be very annoying to have the internet drop out randomly for a few seconds.
We have changed over to another company the day our contract ended. Helped by the fact they were charging us more per month than we should have been.
I will never use them for broadband again.
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- London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-12-04
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The worst broadband provider ever. Avoid it at any cost!
I joined Vodafone on October 18th and immediately realised my broadband constantly drops, so called their technical support. Vodafone initially told me it takes up to 10 days for router to just itself so I should give them time i.e until October 28th. But 28th October came and gone and still the same issue.
The issue continued into November, and I kept calling their technical support with no result. Today is the December 4th and still I get disconnected at least 10 times a day, so finally decided to call their technical support for the last time before take it further and complain to Ofcom.
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- Warwick
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2022-04-28
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Recently changed to Vodafone for Broadband and landline. Broadband router WiFi signal is weak, devices that connected to my old BT Router didn't work until the Vodafone Router was moved. Broadband connection is fast when it works but drops out quite often. Land line charges are huge. The advertised cost is £23 per month. My last bill was over £70
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- Mk
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
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- 2022-10-17
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The citifibre kids who came out only knew one way to install so no options were discussed for installing the equipment. It's less than ideal in a front bedroom on the middle floor in a room i seldom use. It's also impossible to get a wired connection from there so I'm reliant on a poor WiFi router. The Vodafone router is poor, at best. You'd hope that with 900Mb to play with you would get more than 70-80 at the wi-fi, in the same room, but no. Occasionally it goes above 80, into the 150's but not often. 1 floor up this page is struggling to load now. A friend once had gig fibre and he was getting 800+ on wi-fi... Not so here, which means that the fibre was probably broken on install and the router isn't good at dealing with it.
Poor. Stay away.
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- Staffordshire
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- Vodafone
- Date
- 2017-05-11
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Swapped from BT infinity 2, as the vodaphone was a lot cheaper.
Had lots of connection issues especially on mobile devices.
Speed very good at router (66Mb/s) but achieving nothing like that on wifi linked devices (even when 50cm away)
Apps were not loading videos (BBC, Imgur etc)
Spoke with customer support, updated firmware, updated phone, turned off firewall - still no joy.
Websites can take 20 secs to load and regularly freeze, so a pretty much un useable
Decided to go back to BT as still within my 30 days trial.
Cannot recommend
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- North London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2020-04-11
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If you're looking to do just email and streaming in my experience then it will work ok for the most part but for gaming dont even waste your time. I receive massive latency issues ranging from 90 all the way up to 3321 or just general packet loss. It does this multiple times a day every day without fail.Avoid
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- Bristol
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2023-03-23
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With an overall customers satisfaction score of just 77%, at 45% customer satisfaction rating (compared to 85% for the top vendor) Ofcom has ranked Vodafone as the worst broadband provider in 2023.
My experience concurs - I've been a mobile customer for over 10 years, and broadband customer for over 4 years , had 3 rubbish routers and intermittant internet connection dropouts and slowdowns throughout.
The straw that broke the camels back is the pending 14.4% price increase and completely broken broadband upgrade offers. The upgrade promised in the email sent to me when I started the upgrade process from their website for ProII Full Fibre 100 for £28/m with UltraHub wasn't actually available so I couldn't actually take out the deal they offered! It would have been available for £43/m without the Ultrahub and thus wouldn't actually support the required features.
The routers have extremely unreliable wifi s/w issues requiring frequent restarts of the wifi to get Sonos systems and my LG TV connecting robustly, and the wired connections are also unreliable.
Customer support is 0/10. Vodafone provide a completely usless "AI assistance" TOBi which just doesn't work. The entire support system was down on 3 occasions which I tried to use it this week, and Vodafone's own staff also had problems due to its unreliabilities.
The support phone staff couldn't sort this issue so escalated it to another department which refered me back to the original support staff who couldn't resolve the issue! I asked for the complaints department but after 10 minutes they couldn't transfer me so I thanked them and explained I'd email instead. They then called me back again trying to reverse transfer me back to the original team so clearly they hadn't understood a thing.
I gathered evidence of the email offer and upgrade website issues as PDFs and during the tedious support calls I found 3 email addresses for support/compliants via google (Vodafone don't actually publish any ....)
Emailing them resulted in no response from two of the address, the 3rd got a response which led to 1.5 hours of calls only to discover Vodafone can't comprehend what offers are actually available, offered me Pro II Full Fibre 1 rather than the promised Pro II Full Fibre 100, and despite this the website T&Cs still specified the wrong router which wouldn't support the Pro II features of 4G backup and WiFi6. so the descriptions are wrong and contradictory in terms of pricing and the equipment supplied.
One support person was very helpful and offered to try to provide resolve things to an upgrade which is actually available and fulfills what they offer email specified, but before they returned from holiday a "muppet" took over the compliant, and didn't read the information I'd provided or understand what had been discussed and closed my upgrade process/complaint saying I'd refused their offer which is blatantly untrue. Now they won't reopen it, and anway I'm so fed up and disgusted with the "service" provided I've decided to take my business elsewhere.
The £3 discount for having a mobile contract and broadband contract is also useless - I can get a SIM card with 2x the data allowance for 1/2 (or even 1/3) of the price with the other major suppliers which also offer better coverage.
I'd strongly recommend avoiding Vodafone - other suppliers have coherent offers which can actually be taken out, offer higher DL/UL rates and equipment which actually works reliably, and they also have customer support which actually works.
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- London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2024-04-10
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I’ll do the positive bit first, compared to Virgin, who I was previously with, their broadband is reliable and fast. For 12 months it was perfect. It has dropped once and been a bit erratic occasionally, but nothing so serious where I needed to contact them. Just as well because now for the negative.
Their customer service is the worst I’ve ever encountered. They are also devious and dishonest. They left me without broadband for a month when I switched to them because they had a great deal (I’m a mobile customer) and I actually had to go to a shop and demand help because that useless chatbot TOBI is a waste of time and their call centre staff are incompetent. One idiot told
me the man was outside my house working on my full fibre installation (!) this was after they failed to show on the appointed date. Then they said that because my broadband hadn’t been installed during the deal offer I would be paying over twice as much as I thought I would. That wasn’t my fault and I signed up when the deal was still on. I resolved that after a lot of hassle, but then two months later they tried to double the amount again blaming someone for giving me the wrong information. I went as high as I could to resolve that one, succeeded but that was it for me. I vowed that when my contract ends, which is does next month, I will leave. Calling another provider tomorrow. I dread contacting them to give notice, but I’ll do it.
My advice, don’t even think about it. There are better ISPs out there. Vodafone do not deserve the custom.
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