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4:15 am EDT
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Vodacom Initial downgraded package agreed upon differs. Reversal without permission

Initial downgraded package agreed upon (on 2021-01-21) differs from what was received in reality. No feedback was received after various call was made and mails were sent, to resolve this. My contract was then reversed, to my initial package, without my permission. Now "I" must request a downgrade again from the start.

In my 22 years being with Vodacom, this is the first time that I am seriously considering cancelling my contract with them.

Desired outcome: I would have wanted my initial promised contract to be allocated, but will not happen. I then want to be placed back to the Smart XS package as initially requested.

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11:19 pm EDT

Vodacom Fibre line 3 weeks of 1 week on Bellville Capetown

Vodacom is the Service provider but the fibre line is Vumatel. Every month the fibre line is off 1 week working 3 weeks of I am paying the account phoned 3 times a day have several SRNumbers but still no response. This is a ongoing thing for the last year. They do not whant to cancel although this is a month to month contract. The fibre line is again if from the 3rd of April 21. Even phoned Vumatel they say Vodacom must log the faulty line.

Desired outcome: Cancel account

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6:57 am EDT

Vodacom Payment

Good day, I have on several occasions e-mailed Vodacom inc with my account. A e-mail was send to them end of December 2020 were i cancelled my Debit Order with them and is paying the account via EFT. They keep on adding R100.88 on my account every month although they received the mail. My account is not and has never been in arrears. In total I have send them about +- 6 mail to sort this problem out and still no response on amending my account. this is the most pathetic service I have ever received from a Service Provider that is so big.

As soon as my contract is due for upgrade I will be cancelling this and I'll make sure the Company I work for cancel all their contracts with Vodacom

Desired outcome: Want the additional money refers on my Account

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Vodacom Fibre -

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I logged a query with Vodacom on the 7th April 2021 - Ref no. SR210407-426154 and it has not been resolved to date. Apparently I have this new fibre that was installed to me on the 10th March 2021, I tried to use it but the password was incorrect, then I decided not to use it because in my mind I thought that I need to pay for it first before I could use it. My debit date was set on the 26th of every month.

On the 26th of March there was no debit on my account and I decided to contact Vodacom via online services on the 27th March 2021and I asked her why my account was not debited and she told me that, she can see that it was installed but was not activated and they I told her that I thought I had to pay first before I could be activated. She said they won't billed me if my services are not active and she gave me numbers of people I could contact that will help me with activating my account.

A gentleman helped with that process. To my surprise on the 5th of April I receive an invoiced billing me from the 10th March 2021. I have been contacting Vocacome fibre and they failed to assist me and they been sending me from pillar to pillar and this month they charged me R1033 instead of R605 as agreed.

I want Vodacom to refund me R372.88 as they were supposed to charged me from 27th March 2021, the date I activated my services.

Please assist me

Regards, Zanele

Desired outcome: Refund

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9:02 pm EST
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Vodacom reply from [protected]@vodacom.co.za is var noOp = null; WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?????? I want a simple answer to a simple question!!!!!

reply from [protected]@vodacom.co.za is var noOp = null; WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN? I want a simple answer to a simple question!

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1:03 am EDT

Vodacom Vodacom owes me money for months now and no response

I was charged for data incorrectly due to Vodacoms technical error, resulting in me requesting a refund and cancellation of both my lines. Vodacom still invoiced me for the technical fault. Since Jan 2021 I am chasing to have this money refunded, and being given the run around. Can someone please solve this immediately.

Desired outcome: refund my bank account

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11:38 am EDT

Vodacom Fiber relocation activation 3 days and waiting

Relocated booked the transfer then was informed 2-24 hours line will be active still waiting and being weekend the service te technical dep does not work over week ds so I am paying for a service I CAn not use

Phoned several times to resolve each time they say I must give it. More time. When they installed the installers said their was a issue but it was not fixed

Desired outcome: Have my fiber back on

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1:28 pm EDT

Vodacom Internet connection ( slow)

So I'm a content creator. I rely on fast internet connection but I don't know what's wrong with your servers it's just too slow. I lagg to much during stream and also in gaming. Please do something about this. Coz I'm thinking of switching and I guess I'm not the only one. My friends are recommending me to go to other services and I might just will after the contract. I have tried other services and they are so fast. So this is more like saying careful you might lose business by other competitors. But I'm serious you have to fix your servers and provide a smooth internet connection.

Desired outcome: Fast internet connection

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4:51 pm EDT
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Vodacom Contracts

My number has been deleted by Vodacom, on the 26/27th of March without any warning Vodacom decided to delete my number, after letting them know I had no income due to lockdown and loss of income after getting income and making arrangements, Vodacom has deleted my numbers of off their network, having been a loyal customer for years Vodacom decided. I contacted them to find out if the number can be restored I was told I should have known and I have too speak to their lawyers having spoken to them and arranged payment, I was told to call another number only to be told that the number has been scrapped and I cannot get it back. I am willing to pay but it cannot be guaranteed that my number will be reinstated.

Desired outcome: Return of my numbers.

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6:57 am EDT

Vodacom Data signal is costing me money!

Vodacom Data seems to be blocked as when I try to do the simplest of things online it tells me that I am either of free mode or it loads the lite version of the site, which then limits the functionality...

Of course, Vodacom has now decided to brush their paying customers off to Tobi, the dumbest chatbot on the planet. I would know as I develop chatbot solutions for many businesses around the world.

The question is why are they allowed to trade, surely if the service they promised is not delivered and it's costing me the money then I should be able to sue this useless company that has now hidden behind a prerecorded voice app.

All that is left to say is Vodacom sucks and because I can demo my solution to clients I have all this time open to post negative review after negative review about these idiots.

Even taking a trip to the Vodacom store to see if they would be able to help me, but the people manning the stores are untrained and know nothing about the service they sell. As far as customer service and deliverability go Vodacom is by far the worst in the world!

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2:17 am EDT
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Vodacom Repairs job number [protected]

I've upgraded my contract with vodacom on the 12th of March 2021. On the 17th my phone had this strange white line on the right side with about 3 dots in the middle of the screen. As to life far from town, i took my phone in on the 28th of March 2021
JOB NUMBER: [protected] and they send it in for repairs at vodacom. Im still waiting for my phone to come back! Its been gone a long time now! I have subscriptions to pay on my bank card (Huawei music and deezer) in the mean time its just running and i have to pay, but no phone! Also vodacom didn't even say sorry for the inconvenience, nothing! Brand new phone and its been worked on already. And still waiting for my phone to return from repairs since 28 March 2021!

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6:06 am EDT
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Vodacom Vodacom refuses to cancel our contract

In March 2020, we asked Vodacom to cancel handset insurance, cancel content services, cancel Look 4 services, cancel GameME and to change our email address. None of this was done! Not even updating our email address. In June 2020 we tried again but again nothing was done. In August 2020 we decided to move these 6 numbers to Cell C because they continued to send our accounts to the old email addressed and charge us these services we don't want. We received a call and we made it clear we were leaving Vodacom but instead of cancelling, they rejected the cancellation. We tried again in Dec-2020 to cancel, then again Jan-2021, then again March 2021. I have just been back into the Vodacom and they said that I request to Cancel in March 2021 - has been cancelled AGAIN. Not only are we still being charged all these services but they refuse to cancel our contract and move us to pay as you go. What they are doing is criminal!

Desired outcome: Refund us the months of extra charges we opted out of and cancel our contracts.

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Jan 08, 2024 6:11 am EST
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I am going through this now. Of course a couple of corrupt government officials are getting pocket money to allow Vodacom to do these criminal acts. I gave up up. Bunch of kants.

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5:45 pm EDT

Vodacom Vodamail keeps logging me out

Everytime i log into vodamail (https://vodamail.secure.vodacom.co.za/vodamail_ui/#home), via my browser on my pc, it starts loading my mailbox, then an error appears "an service error has occurred" and it logs me out. I have tried logging in using different browsers, and I have the same problem. I have been having the this problem since yesterday morning, 12 April 2021.

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8:45 am EDT

Vodacom I’m complaining about the airtime

My mother is using a Nokia phone, not a smartphone, but her airtime is always being missing. Can you please stop chowing her airtime. She's an old person who only dial & receives calls, her number is [protected]. The problem has been persisting for long now. Every time she recharges her airtime is gone, can you please stop whatever is chowing her airtime.

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1:03 pm EDT

Vodacom Samsung watch

I went to Vodacom shop today to upgrade my phone contract, I saw a promotion that they have in the shop then I opted for it and they only explain few things concerning the promotion as a result I signed the papers .

later when they had opened the products, I saw that this is not what I wanted and I wanted to change the deal but they refused saying I have signed and the product has been opened . now ill be sitting for 24 months for a product that I an not happy with .

In addition to that, the sales person and a manager they are talking different stories .
Please help

Mr Siyabonga Zondi

Desired outcome: That i change the deal to have a deal that i am comfortable with

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1:52 pm EST

Vodacom Deleted cell phone number

My is [protected] have been using it for 13 years in this network, was deleted later in February and last payment I made was back in December 26.

Desired outcome: I wish to have this number back

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4:08 am EDT

Vodacom Fiber connection

Critical. 3 days without connection. SR210406-421850and SR210406-421674. Why can no one assist. We are losing business

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4:39 am EDT

Vodacom Upgrade of phones

We have a business account with Vodacom and we have been trying to upgrade two of our phones for over two weeks. Mateemane Legote was sent numerous emails from us and we never get replies. Please could someone sort this out? There are two numbers that are due for upgrade on our current service. Another person came back to us Martin Ndlovu saying that our account has not been registered. We have been a client for over twenty years.

Desired outcome: Get in touch

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10:00 am EDT

Vodacom Upgrades and Rude manager at Vodacom Cresta

Good Day,
The staff and manager at Vodacom Cresta on the upper level are very unprofessional when dealing with clients . Even the manager of the branch is very rude .When taking out a contract the salesperson, got all our numbers mixed up . This happened 2 years ago . On Saturday the 3rd of April 2021 we approached a coloured Gentleman who is the manager at Cresta to try and sort out the problem and all he could say was phone the cancellations department at the bottom of our contract as he was too busy to help us .We know that Mr . Nick Aliveris is the Franchise owner there, but can never speak to him . All Vodacom staff go through training but never implement what is taught to them even the managers . We want to now cancel all our numbers with Vodacom . Even when calling your cancellation department we get another offer from your cancellation department, Which was supposed to be emailed to us which was not.

Desired outcome: Complete cancellation of contracts

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3:27 pm EDT
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Vodacom Customer service False information bad fibre deals

I have experienced a similar grievance. I completed fibre application. I cancelled my existing lte subscription with another provider because I was told in 14- 22 days I wil have fibre up Nd running... vodacom sent me an interim lte device. Which I used free for a month that was the deal in which time my fibre was to be installed. A month later no fibre now I'm paying a ridiculous price for lte because the vodacom sales team mis lead me telling my I wil have fibre in 21 days and nothing since infact to my shock when I called metro fibre we not even live yet.. the numerous calls I have made to vodacom not one manager has called me. I have sent emails made phone calls but everyone passes the buck to the next person because they are well aware of the misleading information. Service is truly pathetic

I HAVE ATTACHED SOME OF MY CALL LOG

Desired outcome: A manager to contact me

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