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#257759 23-Sep-2009 11:09

michaelmurfy:
cokemaster: I suggest you read this regarding the "2G fallback" myth.

Thanks for that, I should really subscribe to his RSS feed at some point, he actually knows his stuff ;)

Probably also good to note that because VF have GSM & 3G service and they are 2 different networks in theory, when 3G breaks but you still receive 3G signal, you sometimes manually have to set your phone to 2G.

In many cases around auckland and north shore, I used to have to call in an report a fault because no one on VF could make calls, the fix was to manualy select 2G. I had this fault at home in albany for about 2 weeks before they fixed it, this ment that everyone coming off the sector or cell I was using could not make calls (only receive) and couldn't TXT because the devices were trying to use 3G which at the time was broken.

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#257923 23-Sep-2009 20:21

Removed my rant as it was a bit off topic and was just me beating my "more than a decade with Vodafone on account and sick of the poor service" drum.

Would be nice if I could credit my prepay though, but the systems are down so it wont let me, nor let me go through to customer service until I've credited my account. But guess what?

Theres a hole in my bucket...

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#258013 24-Sep-2009 10:26

ArranH: Removed my rant as it was a bit off topic and was just me beating my "more than a decade with Vodafone on account and sick of the poor service" drum.

Would be nice if I could credit my prepay though, but the systems are down so it wont let me, nor let me go through to customer service until I've credited my account. But guess what?

Theres a hole in my bucket...

Seems to be a common fault these days, when you change back to pre-pay then VF don't recognize your number, you cant call customer services, cant tpo up, etc... I've had 3 phones do this in the last 3 weeks! Luckly I know someone at VF that managed to manually fix it.

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#258017 24-Sep-2009 10:36

I haven't heard of this problem - can I get you guys to email me some detail and I'll chase it up. paul dot brislen at vodafone dot com.

So you're talking about moving from OA to PP and having issues with calling? Is that it?

cheers

Paul

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#258512 26-Sep-2009 10:58

Late to the discussion buy @michaelmurphy - a friend of mine works at Nelson Hospital and gets ZERO coverage at the hospital. Luckily the hospital uses Telecom!!

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#258581 26-Sep-2009 16:56

ahmad: Late to the discussion buy @michaelmurphy - a friend of mine works at Nelson Hospital and gets ZERO coverage at the hospital. Luckily the hospital uses Telecom!!

Correction: I had to live in the Nelson Hospital for about a week coz' I messed up my leg pretty bad. My Voda never failed and was pretty much full coverage.

Around that area it's pretty much of a muchness, ofc you ain't gonna receive good coverage around places like Xray Machines (lead walls) or the CT Scanners. The hospital staff uses a mix of devices because of this.

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#258623 26-Sep-2009 21:33

I can categorically state that every single time I call him at work it goes straight to voicemail.

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#258624 26-Sep-2009 21:33

Oh I can also state that when I haven't got through to his 021 that his work 027 never fails.

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#260296 1-Oct-2009 19:22

Which one of you is going to provide affordable rural broadband - and don't say that farms-de do because they can only see
40% of the country - and have THE worst customer service on the planet!

Watch this space New Zealand there is a new player on the horizon!!

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#260298 1-Oct-2009 19:38

QQ: Which one of you is going to provide affordable rural broadband - and don't say that farms-de do because they can only see
40% of the country - and have THE worst customer service on the planet!

Watch this space New Zealand there is a new player on the horizon!!

QQ

Where did this come from? Wasn't this supposed to be a discussion / argument over iPhone Plans? hmm, random. But sorry to disspoint mate, Vodafone and Farmside have teamed up - Link

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#260418 2-Oct-2009 03:42

@Michaelmurfy

Maybe it's forum post dyslexia ? Or is it the special type of choosing things that has me buy Beef Stock instead of Chicken stock at the supermarket despite me being *absolutely* sure I put Chicken Stock in my cart and only discovering when i got home ?

Or maybe it's the "lets just post in this random topic that has nothing to with my issue in the hopes it would get seen" ?

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#260423 2-Oct-2009 07:04

Its a new member trying to create business for his new venture I would guess.

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#260427 2-Oct-2009 07:40

ArranH: Its a new member trying to create business for his new venture I would guess.

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#260745 3-Oct-2009 09:14

I just came off the VF contract, still can't decide which one to go for, either Telecom or VF, the dumb thing I did was to purchase iPHONE from VF without contract last x'mas :\

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#260751 3-Oct-2009 09:34

forgot to mention, I am currently on VF Mega plan with 20xanytime min + 200xOffpeak mins+VF family+1 bestmate, also paying on average $20 for calls made during the day and another $20 for data(even though I'm quite careful with the data cos it's so expensive with VF)

Can someone please help, am I on the wrong plan? or wrong Company even??

Thanks in advance~

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