How Vodafone compares:
- Typical Satisfaction
- Typical Speed
- Typical Service
- Typical Reliability
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Reviewer
Michalean
Location
Bradford
Date
20/01/2019
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Reviewer
Keith Disney
Location
Allington
Date
18/01/2019
Comments:
Moved to Vodafone from Origin and what a difference. On Origin I was lucky to get 10 - 15 Mb and was told my line would not support anything better.
Swap to Vodafone and I now get 50+ Mbs speeds. OK I don't get their guaranteed 55Mbs but they have taken 15% off my payments till they can get 55 so I am happy.
No dropouts, no slowing just a fast reliable connection. The only possible gripe I have is there modem is not the best and the WIFI coverage is not great but you can use your own modem no problem and setup is easy.
I have nothing but praise for Vodafone, brilliant service on a brilliant system, thank you Vodafone.
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Reviewer
Danbury
Location
N. Yorks
Date
18/01/2019
Comments:
Customer service is friendly and tries to be helpful, which is nice since I've spent many hours dealing with a delivered failing modem and a modem delivered with no configuration.
We had Plusnet up until Monday and it was always stable as a rock.
We were promised an easy switch, we have been lied to. -
Reviewer
Jon
Location
Portsmouth
Date
17/01/2019
Comments:
Just switched, everything has failed. Can't get the internet working at all, it was meant to be a "simple switch process" but I need to call tech support which is annoying as I have a degree in computing! Might just cancel it. -
Reviewer
Allan Fulton
Location
Glasgow
Date
15/01/2019
Comments:
Terrible can’t wait to get away, went fir fibre as needed faster speed, that’s a joke think I’m as slow as I was with the old dialup system, funny when you use the app shows up higher speed, but terrible speed.
When you call customer service same old story try this try that still the same sick to the back teeth with them.
They will be gone soon!! -
Reviewer
Dee
Location
Bexley
Date
14/01/2019
Comments:
Avoid Avoid Avoid
Had an activation date for 9th January 2019, surprise surprise it didn’t happen. Have been lied to by every customer service person. 5 days later still no internet. When I said I wanted to complain ( 3rd attempt not been logged) I was asked ‘what did I hope to achieve from complaining).
Worse company ever!
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Reviewer
Tinks
Location
Somerset
Date
14/01/2019
Comments:
Had it o ver a year and they won't let me get out the best I received has been 50mbps when we are expected 77mbps spend over 48hours total on the phone and not a single employee seems to give a crap about the terrible service they provide.
So if you have to call them bare in mind you'll be on the phone a while and be hung up on for no reason which then they leave a mark on your account to treat you like crap! -
Reviewer
Douglas Shaw
Location
West London
Date
13/01/2019
Comments:
Absolutely atrocious. Avoid like the plague.
I have been a loyal Vodafone mobile user for 15+ years. I was paying for EE home broadband and average speed was about 7Mbs for roughly £30 a month.
Saw a Vodafone deal for 50Mbs, with a "guaranteed" speed of 35Mbs for £20 a month. No brainer right?
Well I guess it was a no brainer in the sense that I must have had no brain to sign up with them despite the bad reviews. BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ! They are awful, I am currently averaging 0.7Mbs. I think I had quicker internet in the last millennium.
I won't be paying my broadband bill unless they live up to their part of the deal. -
Reviewer
Chas55
Location
Manchester
Date
13/01/2019
Comments:
I have been with Vodafone broadband for over 12 months now and feel that is a long enough time to have formed a reliable opinion.
Joining was smooth and the service was up and running without any issues on the morning of the switch over date. Monthly payment was £20 and hasn’t increased in the twelve months since.
Two issues worth mentioning. Around last October my connection kept dropping out for no apparent reason. This was happening quite frequently. Before telephoning, I decided to Google it for a possible solution. The first answer I found suggested changing Wifi channels and explained how to simply do this. I followed the instructions and it now works a treat - no dropping out whatsoever.
The second issue involved my fibre broadband speed. Long story but my speed was low so I telephoned. Customer Service answered quickly and talked me through what checks to try. No improvement, so the operative said she would monitor the line and call me back in 3 days. I held out little hope but she called back as promised and arranged for a Bt outreach engineer to attend my property two days later. He turned up on time, replaced some old, unsuitable wiring on the outside of my house and my speeds have increased from 13 to 35 mbps, with no reduction in the evenings, which some customers have complained of.
I really can’t criticise Vodafone broadband whatsoever and my experience is five stars all round. -
Reviewer
MEL
Location
CORNWALL
Date
09/01/2019
Comments:
Set up two months ago. Have since called in three times due to problems with speed and connection reliability. The first two phone calls were two hours each and the last 35 mins. Problem still not resolved! -
Reviewer
Dave S
Location
Folkestone
Date
08/01/2019
Comments:
I'm reporting one of the biggest con jobs I've come across after BoZo's Brexit lies. In fact I'm open-mouthed at VF's cheek relating to their 'Ultimate Speed Guarantee'. I - as it seems many others commenting here - thought it related to the Internet speed I could obtain on my broadband, and if it went below that figure, in my case on Superfast 2 55Mbps, I'd get a refund. It was only when my tests on Ookla showed that at times I was getting less than half that, I started researching further and eventually downloaded VF's own app on which to check speeds. It was only then - after being told my download speed was 80Mbps did I realise these total shysters measure the speed between my flat and the green box over the road! They then have the cheek to confirm my 'sync speed' is above the USG and presumably I don't get any compensation. Crooks.
To add insult to injury after my complaint to them I was phoned by a very arrogant person in - presumably again - Bombay, who steadfastly refused to understand why I was cross, and basically told me to read the small print.
Like many others, I won't be renewing my contract with this bunch! -
Reviewer
graeme dorward
Location
newcastle upon tyne
Date
06/01/2019
Comments:
Signed up in August 2018, just rubbish and it hasn't been sorted.Told them I am leaving , now want to charge £122. They can stick that -
Reviewer
Scott Jenkins
Location
Bristol
Date
06/01/2019
Comments:
I have only been with Vodafone a couple of months but already want to switch away from them due to the terrible customer service I had. We were due to move house and informed them that we needed to set up the broadband at the new house but was told it would take nearly 30 days to complete. We are in the new house still waiting for the broadband activation. I contacted them today to confirm we were still due to be activated soon and got told that they house move had got cancelled on the day I set it up! So we have been waiting for nothing this entire time and they cant even explain why it was cancelled. Neither was I informed that it was cancelled and was told that i would just have to sign up again via the sales team. The customer service is a complete joke. -
Reviewer
Phil
Location
Worcester
Date
04/01/2019
Comments:
Truly awful broadband. Continuously cuts out every single evening. Customer support is an Indian call centre who twice promised me callbacks, and failed to do so on both occasions. Raised a complaint online and got a callback from someone in the UK which fixed a modem problem, but not the stability. The provided speed is faster than plusnet; of course this is only when it works. Due to the constant lose of connection (the ps4 once notified me that Vodafone changed my IP address mid download, hence the lost connection to the server), I will be cancelling the contract as soon as I am able, and never returning. They are one of the cheapest on the market for a reason. There are a few reviews on this site giving them maximum scoring. I honestly don't believe a single one is legit. -
Reviewer
Peter rushbrook
Location
Dartford
Date
04/01/2019
Comments:
We fell for the scam of "if your broadband falls below a speed we will refund you". When we first swapped from the really poor talk talk to voda we were getting 27-35mps all good, then 2 weeks in I started slowing. We used they're app to report and they apologised and gave us money off.
Speed was fine until another week went and again it started dropping, again we complained and the response was ..really sorry we can't make it any fast so we will reduce your bill.
Totally missing the point that it's not the money I'm bothered about but the speed. So now we are stuck with 6-11 MPs and tied in to the contract.
What a simple way to poach customers.
Please don't fall for the same scam -
Reviewer
Sylvia
Location
South East
Date
01/01/2019
Comments:
Recent reliabilty issues, disconnected for 2+ weeks in October and again for 10 days over Christmas. Not all Vodafones fault, the incompetence ofsome of Openreach's engineers account for some of this. However, the appalling service from most of Vodafone's support team has finally made me decide to terminate my contract with them. Several times calls were ended, online chat the same and various promised follow ups - referrals on never materialised. They seem to think that now they have a larger share of the market customer service has gone by the by. -
Reviewer
Saj
Location
Bridgend
Date
31/12/2018
Comments:
Awful broadband speed and worst customer service.
They've charged me for a higher package and gave me the service for a lower package. I found out after 6 months and then they've issued a refund!
Now I'm forced into a contract which I can't get out of, but I'm also not getting the speed that is promised.
I've been with BT & Sky, chose Vodafone only because of price! Worst decision.
NEVER EVER USE VODAFONE BROADBAND EVEN IF IT IS FREE!!! -
Reviewer
Anna Filipiak
Location
Newtoft
Date
31/12/2018
Comments:
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. -
Reviewer
Steve C
Location
Wn8
Date
27/12/2018
Comments:
Worst provider I've ever had. Speed of broadband is so intermittent. Streaming is strangled, Stuttering and jittery. Phoned over and over again for help and ultimately the answer is: unlucky get on with it. I've got pay my way out of the contract because I just can't stand it any more. POOR POOR POOR. -
Reviewer
Victoria
Location
London
Date
27/12/2018
Comments:
Horrible service. Tried to get a broadband with them. Took my money, for 3 weeks didn't manage to send me even a broadband though promised after 7 days to make it life. Had to call them 8 times. Be prepared to stay on the line for 40+min. In the end get hand off on you.
Had reached a lady in customer service, told that I didn't receive my router, she said ''I will manually order it from you, stay on the line''. I stayed on the line, got disconnected, at once called again, reached some other guy and with same adress he wasn't able to verify me and proposed to go to a local branch to verify my ID. Can you believe? I though ou well, maybe the girl will finish what she has started, she knows what I need. No noone did anything.
When I finnally reached them after 3 attempts staying on the line each time 40min. I cancelled the order. And now get the emails that I need to send the router back and if I don't I will be charged 72pounds. It is a total scam not a genuine company. They don't even have an email where you can send a complaint.
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