Vodafone Reviews

I was with Vodafone for around 18 months. As my area only offered up to I believe it was the 25mbs package that it what I signed up for. The average speed we recieved was around 17mbs. Which at the time was OK as we did not have any demanding device in terms of needing the Internet. The app allows you to submit a claim if your speed is slower than promised they put a 15% discount to the bill until they fixed the issue. The issue was never fixed. I contacted the team twice, on one occasion they asked me to remove the face plate of the master line socket and get back to them if we had issues.. not sure how that helps but ok. Customer support was open I believe 24/7 as they had offices in the UK and India. In short the Internet was OK but not great. The issue was never resolved within the 18 months and their speeds never hit the promised speed. But I hardly had any connection issues so they were pretty reliable. This was a review of the service from 2018 to 2019 not a current day review

Poor quality data
reset on its own
poor technical support
Same methods again and again
Never recommend
Just counting to complete contract

We have had the Home Phone and Broadband service for around 4 years. It has been stable for most of that, but now it has gone wrong.

* Thursday 20th August around 13:00 we found that we had no Internet access. I reset the router and noted the red light flashing. The landline appeared ok.
* Thursday 20th August around 13:45 I rang the call centre and heard the announcement that there was an area problem, and it was being worked on.
* Subsequently I have telephoned and spoken on chat with agents who have advised the same - an area problem, and it was being worked on.
* On Monday 24th August I messaged on Twitter, and was advised that we have a fault on the line, in addition to an area problem, that was being worked on. I was advised that Openreach would be contacted to resolve the line fault.
* On Tuesday 25th August at 14:00, 5 Days after I first contacted the Call Centre, I rang again and got the same "area problem, that was being worked" on message.
* On Tuesday 25th August I also asked via Twitter for clarity on how I would know that the landline fault had been resolved. Would it be Openreach or Vodafone contacting me, thus far no response.

Please DO NOT consider Vodafone as your ISP. If it goes wrong you don't stand a chance!

Vodafone are the WORST company in terms of set up and customer service. Please do not get broadband from Vodafone EVER. To my mind, they are a fraudulent organisation that does not operate honestly. There’s a reason they come at the BOTTOM of every customer satisfaction survey.

Do NOT be seduced by any “deals” as these are illusory and it will take you YEARS to fix any problems. Just walk away immediately. Vodafone are woefully ill equipped to deal with even the SLIGHTEST issue. Call center staff are naturally useless, but all the head office staff are illiterate idiots also. You won’t get a simple answer out of ANY of them. The culture at Vodafone is very much one of “lie, deny, and do nothing” which is something that as a paying customer you can do without. That comes from the top down. The CEO is an absolute joke and their “executive relations” team may as well be a bunch of interns for all the good they are.

PLEASE do not use Vodafone. Literally use any other phone or broadband provider. You have been warned. I can provide details and correspondence to back up everything I say. Keep away. Dealing with Vodafone can seriously damage your health.

Appallingly bad. I've been trying to get Internet with them for over a month, but after 3 failed activation dates I give up. Utterly useless. I spent over 5hrs on the phone, each time they literally promised they'd get it working today, only to fail. Then fail again next time. And again. They also promised to ring me back twice, but never did. Plus they play the same four songs on repeat on their hold music which just adds insult to injury after 45 mins each time on hold.

Ordered broadband 3 months ago, 3 cancelled Vodafone orders and 2 openreach visits. No update about what the issue is, until I call to find the order cancelled and rescheduled weeks in the future. Possibly hoping openreach will have resolved the issue by then but will never contact openreach to get an update on what the issue is or when it will be resolved

i've been with Vodafone for over a year now and have had good service. on chatting with neighbours recently after the Thursday night clap, realised it just works and seemingly better in my location than competitors

our exchange is type 1, so limited choice, but found the service to be consistent and i use a lot of teams video conferencing whilst working from home.

two challenges i did have
1: The vodafone DNS server was slowing things down in the evening. i changed to Google DNS and its great

2: we had a BT openreach problem with the line, but Vodafone instantly put free data bundles on our mobiles to cover over the weekend using 4g, worked perfectly.

also since swapping to the new router (from a draytek) i've found my nest doorbell no longer drops off wifi.

just wish openreach would hurry up with FTTP

Poor throughput speeds due to congestion/overloaded service from Vodafone. My router syncs solidly at 74.4Mbs but throughput speeds have never been above 30Mbps from day one and are often between 2Mbs and 15Mbs. Tech support go through the same script every time and tell you that you have issues with your wifi, despite me getting the same speeds when using an ethernet cable. Throughput drops out several times per hour, however the router remains sync'd.

Their "speed guarantee" is ONLY on sync speed, which for this package is 55Mbs, so as far as Vodafone are concerned, the issue is after the router, i.e. our wifi and ethernet!

My neighbours on both sides are with BT and have similar sync speeds to mine and get minimum throughputs 50Mbs+ at peak times, so that rules out any issues with our local exchange.

As with all things, it's cheap for a reason!

EDIT:
From sheer frustration at the 0.6Mbps speeds today, I have just factory reset the Vodafone Connect router. I now have 30-40Mbps of ACTUAL THROUGHPUT. How long this will last remains to be seen...

Moved to a new house in Jan 2019 signed up with Vodafone. Service commenced at 55Mb and has got worse since then. I have made so many complaints and it doesn't make any difference. Service is clearly throttled, been through the same nonsense with the wifi. I have a proper network at home and only use the router to connect to my equipment. I was told to press and hold the WDS button for 10 seconds which would have reset the router. The technician didn't like it when I called him out on this.
Current bandwidth is around 25Mb and is very unstable.

But there is hope, they have cabled our estate with Fibre so I will be leaving Vodafone. Vodafone service is appalling, but Ofcom does nothing!!

I have had service with multiple providers but Vodafone is bottom of the league. You will regret it if you take the service.

We moved house, and ordered Vodafone Broadband Superfast 2. After we had moved in, the router got sent to our old address, and ordered another one, which pushed back the activation date by OpenReach 4 weeks instead of 2, no compensation offered either in-store or online.

We've never had anything like the maximum sync speed that they advertise and always have to claim out 15% discount. No one investigates. The last 10 days have seen our 55Mb/sec minimum speed shrink to a crawling 5.8Mb/sec, then 5.2Mb/sec with 0.8MB/sec uploads, which essentially shutdown my online backup - these are values measured with their own apps to their own servers.

Contacted tech support twice who won't do anything (Even register it as a complaint on your account) until the splitter has been plugged into the test plug on the master socket for 72 hours - despite the fault existing for 10 days.

Support offered £5 credit to our bill, and we got a 15% discount, but still nothing like even half of what they say should be the minimum. I use a VPN and can see clearly that they throttle downloads, 3-5Mb/sec without the VPN, 28-32Mb/sec with. Avoid.