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Thread ID: 115718 2011-01-31 20:03:00 Vodafone price rise? Paul Ramon (11806) PC World Chat
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1174079 2011-01-31 20:03:00 Because vodafone call centres are in Egypt & they are transfering all enquiries now to NZ does this mean the added expense will now be passed on to consumers? The Egypt strife doesn't appear to be just a 'flash in the pan' so I believe Vodafone won't be prepared to carry all the extra cost. :2cents: Paul Ramon (11806)
1174080 2011-01-31 21:09:00 I hope that's a lesson for all companies that outsource their call centres to places that don't speak proper English. Especially to the part of the world where they specialise in blowing each other up. Serves them right for being cheapskates. Pay peanuts & what do you get? Phil B (648)
1174081 2011-01-31 21:37:00 ^ Cheaper service for us. --Wolf-- (128)
1174082 2011-01-31 21:50:00 Maybe a cheaper service if you're lucky though I seriously doubt that. They would have outsourced to make more profit, not reduce their prices Phil B (648)
1174083 2011-01-31 21:58:00 They'll just move it somewhere else - plenty of competition for that kind of work... johcar (6283)
1174084 2011-02-01 00:02:00 Because vodafone call centres are in Egypt :

They're not.
Some of it is.
Some of it is done by Salmat in Penrose.
pctek (84)
1174085 2011-02-01 04:27:00 computerworld.co.nz fnphoto (2434)
1174086 2011-02-02 00:38:00 ^ Cheaper service for us.

Dont you just find it funny how vodafones prepay rates were 49c per minute before they sent the call centre work overseas. What are they now? 89c?

I find it amusing people want cheaper then complain about things going overseas and then wondering why they are left unable to get jobs.
coldfront (15814)
1174087 2011-02-02 01:15:00 Dont you just find it funny how vodafones prepay rates were 49c per minute before they sent the call centre work overseas. What are they now? 89c?

I find it amusing people want cheaper then complain about things going overseas and then wondering why they are left unable to get jobs.

Yeah, its the customers at fault for high prices and crap service....:groan:
Metla (12)
1174088 2011-02-02 06:01:00 computerworld.co.nz

I like this bit "At the TUANZ Contact Centre conference the following year Midgen told the audience that the Cairo operation, known locally as the Horizon call centre – represented a 35 – 38 percent saving for Vodafone. The telco was forced to go to Cairo because of the desperate labour shortage in this country “It was an AND”, she said."

That labor shortage was because you wanted to pay the operators here in NZ the minimum wage or less. My niece aged 22 just moved to Perth and was working in a call center until end of this week at $A30 / hour..
paulw (1826)
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