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Thread ID: 95135	2008-11-25 20:10:00	Paul is at it again	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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722968	2008-12-28 20:42:00	Hi Paul, I'd check the large advertisements in city Vodafone stores for BROADBAND ANYWHERE with Vodems etc. G3 is actually only available in very, very few central city areas in NZ. Can one say False advertising? I use a vodem with my laptop, pay $70 for 3 gig a month and am lucky to get over 5 KBps down if I can get any access at all. Tied in for 24 months too. Plus the on account phone. Last few weeks No Network coverage has been a regular message on my phone, in Okiwi bay, Howard Valley, Wakanui, etc. In fact B... huge areas of the South Island and the North Island is no better either. Totally Sick of call center calls to Egypt too. I'll be checking out Telecom when the 24 months are up.	Sue (33)
722969	2008-12-29 00:07:00	Yes when you go overseas on Vodafone, like when I was last in England my step sons prepay cost the same as here to send text messages 20c back then but my phone on an account had a surcharge on texting. When i asked them why since having an account surely I was a valued customer and more likely to be spending money with them? Their answer was because I had subsidised calling from overseas instead. Txt messages in NZ about 10 years ago were 10 cents each. They doubled not long after vodafone took over from bell south. They haven't reduced in price since, which is very poor considering how much data they use up, and that bandwidth prices have dropped so much. Txt messages prices , as with mobile calling and data pricing in general, are price gouged becuase of the lack of competition in NZ. The commerce commission have done nothing to fix this.	robbyp (2751)
722970	2008-12-29 01:45:00	And how can you say we never reduce rates? You can can call, TXT and video someone as MUCH AS YOU LIKE for $6/month. Or you can set up a Family group of four people who can call and TXT each other as MUCH AS THEY LIKE for $20 a month. Cheers Paul You can do lots of fancy things on the "On Account" plans. We took this to mean any plan other than a prepay. However, "On Account" plans are only the new ones. Despite the wording Or if you're happy with your current mobile, you can choose extra bonus minutes for the duration of your contract instead. If you are happy with your "old" plan, as we are with Talk 300, then you can't add. We wanted to add 100 texts per month -- but cannot. So be careful, and learn the jargon ! Misty :( :(	Misty (368)
722971	2008-12-29 02:06:00	In the Nelson/Tasman area Telecom blows Vodafone away for 3G speeds. We actually stopped selling the vodafone data cards because we had so many complaints about slow speeds. I'm talking worse than dial up and constant disconnections. Telecom is fine all over the area, had 1500kbps the other day in Mot CBD. Normally connects around 100 - 300 kbps in mot/surrounding areas and is solid as a rock. Don't know if this is the same everywhere (out of the high speed reception areas) but certainly here Telecom blows Vodafone out of the water.	wratterus (105)
722972	2008-12-29 02:47:00	International calling charged at $2 for 60 minutes - who uses anything other than skype for international phone calls these days? Chi-Tel calling card suits us fine ! Misty :D :D	Misty (368)
722973	2008-12-30 22:31:00	Test new sig	zqwerty (97)
722974	2008-12-30 23:01:00	The consumer magazine has ranked vodafone as one of the worst providers for customer service. They also reported that Vodaonfe NZ has recently sent over 600 million dollars back to their Uk owners, which is a huge amount of profit. It just shows how much NZers are overpaying. This isn't good for the NZ economy, the least they could do is reinvest it back into the NZ economy.	robbyp (2751)
722975	2008-12-30 23:46:00	Yet another triumph of the free market.	zqwerty (97)
722976	2008-12-31 01:23:00	Yet another triumph of the free market. The least they could have done is spent some of that profit on allowing prepay users to view recent account activity on their phones, or online. Apparently they have it for their Ozzy customers who pay less. There Ozzy customers also don't have to pay $1 to speak to customer service when something goes wrong. you could commincate with them for free via email, but they will take weeks to reply. Alternatively they have a forum, which is part of their support system, yet apparenly it isn't really a support forum according to some of the vodafone staff who post on it..I guess mono/duopolys can get away with the decreasing customer service satisfaction levels, yet still make an increasing profit.	robbyp (2751)
722977	2009-01-02 02:03:00	Have we scared off Paul yet? :) I'm with Telecom. A doubt Vodafone is much better :(	dolby digital (5073)
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