Vodafone Home Broadband Reviews

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for Vodafone.

Recent Customer Ratings for Vodafone

  • Satisfaction
    2.6 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.5 stars
  • Speed
    2.7 stars
  • Reliability
    2.6 stars

Based on 438 customer ratings since 2023-04-22 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

1,510 Customer Reviews over 38 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    After a week long wait of investigation into why my fibre 2 broadband so slow at peak times they called me today to say it’s congestion and that it’s not a technical fault.... they say that as I am getting 62 mbps to the router I can’t cancel my account even though they then throttle the broadband to below 10mbps in peak time .... this is a complete rip off and I advise anybody to stir clear of this disgusting service I will be taking my details and evidence to Ofcom
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Leeds
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    I believe Vodafone UK are advertising a guaranteed broadband speed or money off. This is terms "the ultimate broadband guarantee". Just don't believe it for a minute.

    The reality of the guarantee being based on Sync speed is of no use to man or beast.

    Thy Sync speed gives no guarantee to actual broadband throughput.

    So you can be happily syncing at 30Mbps / 7Mbps as I am but your throughput will vary from 30Mbps during the day to 3.5Mbps every evening (as mine does). This makes it
    impossible to do anything at any decent speed.

    Vodafone support (on phone which takes litrally hours to get through to) will take you round the houses trying to diagnose it but in reality they know they cannot delivera guaranteed throughput. If you do nail them down to not fixing the problem they blame Openreach for a "Red Cable Link Issue" (whatever that is, sounds like it's designed to scare customers off). If you push them further they will quote your contract "sync speeds" are being provided as per contract. This leaves you in the position of having extremely poor broadband speeds every evening but locked into an expensive contract.

    BTW don't bother with online chat they onl having restricted access to your account and have very little skilled knowledge. They even gave me a ticket
    reference number which wasn't even a ref number, it was my account number.

    So all in all, pretty poor support around a service designed to stop you getting good speeds every evening (as in my case, fully documented with Vodafone support and now going through an OfCom process).

    Avoid at all costs.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
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    Comments
    Without a doubt the worst service I have ever received. I have no words. Just avoid at all costs. I am switching all services & will never use any of their services again. Don't be lured by cheap deals it's not worth it.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Horrendous experience already and not even connected yet. Day 2 into contract and already been given 3 different activation dates. Now without broadband completely. Apparently there is a fault on my line even though my sky broadband was working perfectly yesterday morning before they took it over. Big big mistake moving from sky and intend to cancel the contract
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Gloucester
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      4 stars
    • Customer Service
      4 stars
    • Speed
      4 stars
    • Reliability
      4 stars
    Comments
    Left Sky to go to Vodafone. Activation/swap over on time and all good. Router arrived before this date as promised so from a customer service point of view not complaints. Router comes pre-fixed with a lot of features enabled that I think slows down/impairs performance. After a few days speed had massively dropped and connection was wavey. They do optimise the line in the first ten days but it shouldn't cause so many FEC corrections and errors/speed drops. Switching a lot of these off on the router appears to have fixed this. Speed has been 63mpbs continually, no drops and wi-fi speed all over a three storey house is very good and a huge improvement on Sky. So far so good but router needs tweaking, app is a nice touch although the "beam wi-fi" feature appears to have gone.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Hull
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      3 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    My broadband activation date was tomorrow on the 11th December. Today I called vodafone to ask why I had still not received my new router, I was told that my order had been cancelled as it had 'fallen through the cracks'. Lots of apologies and was told that I would have to re-create the order and join the back of the queue. Pretty awful service really.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Kent
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Just got the Superfast2 activated on 23rd of November. The advertised speed was guaranteed 55mbs and guess what, it never got over 4mbs in between 4pm-11pm(peak time). Barelly can load a browser page. I complained more that 20 times to their first line techincal useless team wich are making the same useless and pointelss diagnostics. They don't have a clue of what is happening and a clue of how to solve issues. Techteam 2 on the other hand, a bunch of inconsistent liars, every time they got a service ticket they are marking it as solved, and every time nothing real being made. Liars full of ***t. I you want to get a stable reliable ISP, avoid this one wilt all costs.Pay more if necessary
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Waited 3 weeks for activation to only find out that the address was incorrect (it was the flat above who got disconnected from her internet as a result). They then had to do a complete new order with the ‘correct’address where I had to wait another 2 weeks, to only find out the address was wrong AGAIN. It was now a different block completely. I then finally find out that my address is not on the system and therefore had to cancel it altogether. 2 weeks later anf I am still waiting for my refund. Definitely do not recommend them and not wish for anyone to endure the anger and time I have had to with them.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Kent
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      4 stars
    Comments
    Shocking. Having switched from SSE (which was excellent) having been taken in with the Vodafone space game TV marketing the service has been totally unacceptable. I rarely get above 3Mb/s in the day from my 37Mb/s fibre connection entirely as a result of capacity issues on the Vodafone network. Having complained nothing other than BS from the Vodafone rep. Now requesting early release from my contact. Totally unacceptable. Avoid.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    West Midlands
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    Been with Vodafone broadband for 14months and its been fine, but all of a sudden, every evening my speed drops down to 5-9mbs told them and they claim my settings must be wrong. Even tho I've had no problems before. Will not be staying with these fools.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I am afraid that I struggle to think about a company more rubbish than Vodafone. Unprofessional - despite agreeing to pay a final bill toward which I had complained, they still haven't removed the negative note on my credit report. please don't make my mistake and STAY AWAY.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      5 stars
    • Customer Service
      5 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      5 stars
    Comments
    Excellent customer service and good value for money broadband. Easy to set up and handy broadband app to make monitoring speed etc easy. Really happy to have swapped from BT, who were expensive and the customer service was really bad.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Falkirk
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    They are lucky to even get 1 star!!! Im absolutely raging with vodafone. I have only been with them 3 weeks and i am cancelling. I signed up for fibre and my guaranteed speed was 35mgb.. that lasted maybe 5 days. Ever since then my line keeps dropping.. it even stopped working for 2 whole days, no one knew how to fix it, they just left it and eventually it came back.

    My highest speed just now is 8mgb, thats on a good day, my usual is between 3-5!!! Feel like ive teleported back 10 years! Not what i am paying for at all.

    The customer service is terrible as well, they just read a script and dont know what they are talking about. They have obviously been told to act overly friendly... but telling me to give my 3 year old daughter a kiss from them is more than a little inappropriate!!! Ehh who are you, and how about no?
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Croydon
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Do not use Vodafone !! Bad customer service have wasted 3 hours of my life just getting through to these guys over the last 2 days.

    Had the first lady told menits activated and wait till 10pm!! Funny how their lines close at 10pm too.

    I was promised a call back the following morning which didnt happen. Hence I spent another day calling them. The first hour passed I got through, he said he couldn't hear me and said he will call back and didn't. Now im waiting on a call as we speak.. I am cancelling within 2 days of this service! Stay away if your the type who needs to work from home. This internet will get you the sack !!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Braintree
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      5 stars
    • Customer Service
      5 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      5 stars
    Comments
    Having been totally dissatisfied with fibre with plusnet and then BT I changed to Vodafone. (I contact through their local shop)
    I now have reliable 30mb service with telephone line and free UK calls for £28.0 per month.
    HENCE I GIVE THEM AN ALL ROUND 5 ***** RATING
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Bucks
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    From the moment I switched from BT, who were excellent, I ran into issues.

    Firstly, the onboarding process - it took me repeated attempts to sign up and when I did my go live date was delayed - I didnt receive any compensation (as I should according to Ofcom).

    Secondly, and most importantly, the speed and quality fo the connection deterioratd rapidly. Pages wouldnt load properly. Connection would drop out randomly. Speed rarely got above 5mbps (this is FIBRE!!!), no matter what th ridiculous app said.

    I raised this issue dozens of times. Each time I had to restate eveything again, go through the same poitnless diagnostics. In the end an excellent engineer from Openreach solved some of the problem, but not all and the service degraded again. Baiscally Vodafone oversold their product, and have insufficent capacity and are employing sneaky traffic shaping.

    Custoemr service was atrocious. We have blindly stumbled on for a year but I finally bit the bullet and decided to leave my contract early, at great cost to myself.


    Keep well away from this bunch of utter clowns. I wouldnt recommend this atrocious service to my worst enemy.

    I am now worried that due to Dynamic Line Management my line has been degraded and effectivley "poisoned" by the terrible service these guys provideed and I will never get the heady, amazing speeds provided by BT ever again. I was comfortably getting 52mbps with BT, now no provided will guarantee more than 20mbps and it is all because of vodafone. It'll probably need to be reset by openreach all over agaiin.

    They are ****ing useless ****s and I would never use these utter ****s again.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    radstock
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    Comments
    Of course you are great... until I'm asking for my money back.
    I had to cancel my service due to change in work needs. It was within my cooling off period. You have taken a payment and i am trying to get it back. Numerous calls made to you. I often hang up due to the unreasonably long wait. I just got a REAL PERSON a miracle today. They went off for 'a few seconds' to look up details. They were gone at least 5 minutes and i had to hang up. some of us are at work and cannot stay on the phone for ages waiting for you. Where the hell do your agents have to go to look up details? Across the road? to another town? Why can't they look up on their computers. Your service level is terrible. I am now on hold yet again . been waiting over 25 minutes.

    i try often calling from home in the evening but never get a person at all.
    I am really disgusted and shall make sure to review you badly on every review site i can find. I expect you do this to people you owe money to so we give up. horrible company!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Orpington
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    DO NOT USE!

    Ordered my broadband on October 10th still don't have it! I've had 4 activation dates, none of which have been met. Wasted more than 22 hours of my time trying to get to the bottom of the issue and still no one can tell my what the problem is our when they will actually provide me broadband.

    In the end it was easier to cancel and go elsewhere than listen to their crappy hold music or wait for another call from them that doesn't materialize.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Bilston
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Absolutely terrible .connection keeps dropping , speeds are way below advertised for fibre broadband . Really dismal service !!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Liverpool
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Awful, we made the move from Sky and have regretted it since. Then phone line lost dialing tone 3 months ago, reported it, still waiting for action, now broadband has dropped speed by 75%...but the Vodafone app says it's full 40mbps, independent app says 7mbps, can't load half the websites and resort to mobile data constantly. I want to leave but can't get through to customer services! 3 hour wait each time...AVOID
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    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.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Ramsbottom
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Swapped on the 26th Nov. Can no longer stream Tv or even get emails or read the paper on my phone. Ring and you're put on hold until you give up, live chat can;t help. BUYER BEWARE
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Peebles
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    If I could give a minus review I would. The WORST company I have dealt with by far. Supposed to activate broadband services on 21st November. Two weeks later, still nothing. Spent hours on phone on three occasions, most of the time on hold listening to Fleetwood Mac. People I speak with are useless and can't resolve problem. Can't even explain clearly what problem is. They don't acknowledge e mail complaints or complaints sent by post. Trouble seems to be that they mis sell something they can't actually provide. They claim they can supply to your postcode but when it comes down to the activation date then it turns out that they don't actually have the capacity to supply what they said they could. You have to come to this realisation yourself as they won't tell you. They will just give you vague assurances that it will be fixed by Open Reach at some vague future date.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Charvil
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      2 stars
    • Customer Service
      3 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      5 stars
    Comments
    Decided to go with VP due to a long standing issue with my phone, they kept at it and finally resolved the problem. Was not happy about the length of time but customer service eventually work reallly well.
    Now to the broadband, another reason was the free gift more later, speed is 30mbps which is great, I am on Suoerfast 1, really pleased.
    Reliability I have had to reset the router once so again completely happy.

    Overall satisfaction - well I am not satisfied as my promised free gift of a Sonos 1 speaker still has not turned up. The last communication I received was that it will be delyaed another 15 days. Called their promotions team and although a very nice chat no commitment of a delivery date. Apparenty they are very popular and VP are waiting for supplies. They could go to John Lewis or Amazom as they seem to grow on Christmas trees there. So VP if you make a sales promise good Customer Service depends upon you fulfilling your side of the bargain or at least communicating in a meaningful manner.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Mk
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Join Vodafone broadband in October this year total price would be £23 for existing Vodafone customers unfortunately there is no option for them to add a 5 pound discount so I have to paid £28 a month for 18 months the speed of the broadband is nowhere near what they appetising Wi-Fi is rubbish No good for streaming continually dropping out customer services are absolutely rubbish do not have a clue what they’re talking about you just get passed from department to department I’m going to cancel this contract early just to get away from Vodafone
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Non US Resident
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    Comments
    Worst mobile company ever,legalised rip off merchants, please don't ever get anything from this company.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    N. Ireland
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Absolutely and utterly useless. I have mobile.phone with broadband and felt ok lets give these a try. Massive mistake. They left me without broadband for 1.5 months after simply failing to complete the order with openreach. Twice. So so infuriating. Left.and moved to BT. Seamless.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    wakefield
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    promised 55mbs , after 5-6 oclock till midnight down to 2-3mbs . customer service is a merry go round of people reading from a script who all say the same thing. far to many layers to actually get to the person you want. spent more time on phone either waiting in ques or being passed to someone else, who would then tell you to do same thing. and if you email complaint if you have not got vodafone number it wont send. so atfer 10 calls ,an engineer visit who said nowt wrong with line . im off to pastures new. dont touch with barge pole. look at vodafone community first.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Birmingham
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Day one of my fibre broadband. Absolute non starter. No connection. NO CONNECTION AT ALL. I HAVE BEEN ON HOLD FOR 58 MINUTES AND STILL COUNTING. IT IS 9:36 PM AS I TYPE.

    TODAY IS 28 NOVEMBER 2018.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Bolton
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    I'm paying for 78download/20upload...and I was getting that for a month or so, now I'm lucky to get 20mbps download. Absolute rubbish.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Harrow
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    This is by far the worst broadband provider I have seen in UK, slow service, continuous drop offs for broadband and sometimes it doesnt work for days. Stay away from vodafone
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Torpoint
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      2 stars
    • Customer Service
      3 stars
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    When we first joined Vodafone we were getting around the advertised 30+ speed. Recently the speed has dropped alarmingly some days, when we struggle to get anything done. Now it sits around the 20 level all the time. We have never had such low speeds from any other suppliers since we started to get fibre. Unfortunately we have quite a while to run on our contract. Avoid Vodafone if you want reliable so-called super fast broadband.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Glasgow
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    Absolutely ridiculous experience when I had to move to a new flat and move my broadband consequently.
    First the CS – who answered after 30 minutes – told me that they were going to move everything on the next Friday and that an engineer would come who didn’t need access to the flat but only outside. The weekend passed by and the line was still inactive so when we called again the CS, they told us that the engineer came but that the line was going to be active only after 10 days (something that they didn’t tell us during our first call). Anyway since we were going on holiday for two weeks it didn’t bother us so much.
    Then, on our last day of vacation, we received a message from the engineer saying that we missed the “scheduled” appointment for the broadband installation and that now we had to call again Vodafone to book another appointment. The next day, still at the airport, we called Vodafone complaining that no one told us about an appointment and that, actually, we were told that the engineer already came but all the CS could do was to schedule another appointment after 10 days!!
    We then filed a complaint and we were contacted by a complaints handler to whom we asked either to have an engineer in the next two days or to cancel the contract and he told us that in the last case we had to pay fees for over 300£!! so he managed to book for us an engineer for the next day giving us a morning slot; my husband had to ask for half day off at work but, of course, the engineer never showed up!! not even we received a call or a message from him. So we complained again asking to end the contract right away and when they heard that the engineer never showed up they agreed to end the contract without any fees. But this doesn’t end here because after a few days I received a bill with the broadband charges for the period in which we never had the connection plus 60£ charge for the engineer!! so I had to call the CS service again and they cancelled the bill.
    I had also to struggle to speak to the CS – not only for the waiting time – but also because when I activated the contract, I was supposed to receive a PIN code that nobody gave me, so every time I tried to call the CS – after a long wait – I couldn’t pass the security checks, also because – at the moment of the activation – the lady put in my contact details my wrong email address so I’ve never been able to log in in my Vodafone page online! So I had also to get out, find a Vodafone store and ask for my PIN code in order to be able just to speak on the phone with them.
    Until I was in my old flat the connection was good but not as good as they told us it would be.
    I would definitely NOT recommend this broadband.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Enfield
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    Painful. stay away. They told me I could keep my existing landline and that I should cancel my contract with my current provider. I cancelled it and of course they could not bring the number over. The free gift offer is a convoluted process (I suspect loads of people probably didn't get the gift) - I didn't get the email and then I was told I could claim the gift and then I was told I couldn't because I was outside of the time limit...but I didn't get the email...
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Romford
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Never went live !!!!! Waste of my time and money, they have agreed to cancel and I have even had emails confirming cancellation to then see that they are still charging me for a service which I have never had !!! I’m so annoyed can’t believe how many times I have called and how many hours of my life I have wasted on this company. I am also a mobile customer and will now find a new supplier for that also. Hate that a company as big as this can get it sooooo wrong without apology and no actual knowledge
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Doncaster
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Without doubt the WORST Broadband provider I have ever had...Disputed how slow the speed was at my end, claimed it was my internal connections at my property that was causing the problem which an engineer who attended confirmed it was not and blamed the service provider. I consider that Vodafone are taking my subscription under false pretences and if they can't supply the minimum service then they should be held accountable....
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Uxbridge
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Very slow download speeds(5mbps) when they garanteed 50+mbps. Don't bother calling them, the staff don't have a qlue what's going on half the time. Massive struggle to get activated, sent 2 routers and we had to send one back. Do not accept the Internet dongle. Massive hidden charges!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Dover, Kent
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Vodaphone Broadband, shambolic, Inept, liars, useless and a waste of time.

    Hope that people will read this and take great note, if Vodaphone wish to respond to try and defend their shambolic performance then please feel free.

    Having had Vodaphone at my previous home I made the mistake of asking them to provide my broadband service at my new property, what a mistake that has been. Prior to contracting I was assured that I would receive at least 60mbps, on the day of activation my speed was between 9 and 12mbps and has remained so despite being charged for the higher claimed speed that I would receive.

    I telephoned on the Friday to report the poor speed, and advisor stated that this was because my new property still ran on copper and not fibre, however, an engineer would complete some external works on the Monday and change me over to fibre, no need to be at home and all would be up and running on Monday evening I was assured. I was also told by the advisor that I would receive a call on the Monday to confirm all was well.

    Monday came and went and surprise, surprise, no call and still the same old speed of between 9 and 12mbps. On the Wednesday I contacted Vodaphone and as per normal sat in a queue for the best part of 40 minutes and to chat to yet another advisor who gave a different story. I was told by her that the colleague I spoke to on Friday should never have told me what he did, could I now remove the faceplate of my master socket and plug my line into the test socket for 24 – 48 hours and they would run some tests and give me a call. This I did only to receive no call or update. On Saturday I yet again telephoned Vodaphone only to wait yet another 30 minutes, yet another advisor agreed that there was a problem as they measured the speeds at their end only to find that I was getting the speeds that I told them from the start, Vodaphone agreed to send an engineer out for Friday 23rd November 2018 as I run my own business and being at home is rare. I received a confirmation text for the engineer, so all seemed ok.

    Friday 23rd arrived, my appointment was from 1300 to 1800. My wife and I ensured we were indoors for midday so as not to miss the appointment, at around 2pm we received a call from a second line support assistant who did not seem to have a clue what she was on about, after the conversation I again telephoned Vodaphone to report the call and that the caller appeared to be confused about what it was she was meant to be doing. Yet another support assistant took the call only to tell me that an engineer’s appointment had been booked for Monday 26th November 2018, I assured her that she must be confused as I had a text from Vodaphone to confirm the engineer was booked for Friday 2rd hence the reason for taking the time off at a huge expense, she assured me I was wrong so I asked to escalate the case, a lady called Eman took over only to confirm the assistants view that the engineer would be attending Monday, I again pointed out the confirmation text from Vodaphone to say that the engineer would be out today (Friday), Eman then started to change her story and said that the call I had taken from second line support earlier that afternoon was to confirm the engineer would be calling out on Monday, when I called her a liar and instructed her to pull the voice recordings of the calls she became very defensive and again changed her story, she now stated that an engineer had called out to complete some external works but was unable to rectify the fault and that’s why they needed to get an engineer out on Monday. I told Eman she was lying and I now wanted to escalate the case further, she did her best to try and not escalate the case but I am fairly persistent.

    I was next passed onto someone who claimed to be from the Directors complaints or support division, I explained the above to him in great detail and stated that I wanted a resolution by the end of the call, he went of the line for 5 – 10 minutes to try and sort things out but the long and short of his answer was that I may have been routed through a wrong exchange and my line was over 2.5kms from an exchange to I would not get the speeds that they had guaranteed me and they could and would not improve on the speed of 9 – 12mbps, staggeringly we run fibre optic cables below the sea to other countries with no issues yet Vodaphone cannot provide a fibre optic line over 2.5kms. I then asked them to send an engineer out on a weekend but he claimed no BT / Openreach engineers work on a weekend in Dover, having spoken to BT Openreach this is incorrect and Vodaphone will not pay the extra for an engineer to come out on the weekend.

    When I informed them that Vodaphone was in breach of contract and misrepresentation to gain sales he said he would allow me to leave my contract early, wow what a gent and gesture, as I told you I would be leaving regardless of your gesture as you have failed to provide the service you are contracted to.

    Needless to say I have now asked BT to take over my services and when the 44 mobile phone contracts are due for renewal for my business guess who will not be getting them?

    I should also add that when asked about compensation I was informed that none would be given as Vodaphone do not pay compensation, well Vodaphone watch out for the Small Claims forms which will be in the post Monday for breach of contract and loss of Retention.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Stirlingshire
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Utter garbage. 9 Months of pathetic unreliable service. Once you’ve reconnected each day it’s tediously slow. We don’t even bother connecting our phones to the WiFi any more as the 4g is 100 times faster.
    Gave up trying with the customer services for the good of my mental health and just gonna ride out the last 3 months of this god awful contract.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Crowborough
    Reviewing
    Vodafone
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I’ve got the 35mbps deal and my usual speed test is around 15 so spoke to vodafone and got it sorted for 5 mins it was ok and went back to the same and this carried on throughout my 12 month contract. Funny how they always manage to make it ok almost instantly when you contact them? Any way I cancelled giving my 30 days notice and the moment I did this my speeds are no more than 5 mbps!!! Complete joke! Now they can’t make it any better apparently, I wonder if this is because I’ve cancelled my subscription? even though it’s not supposed to expire until the end of the month, it’s basically non existent any way!!! Vodafone are a joke.

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