Vodacom suffers network problems

[twr]

Everyone good?

No I purchased a 1 gig promotion around 4 pm still hasn't come through

 

[GreatWmR]

Had no data for a few hours
Back now at least

 

[RudderVator]

The Best Network - gone to the Dogs ...

No news about what, caused it, how long it going to take to fix, nothing. Awesome!!

Has not been the best network since about 2018. MTN solidly owned them.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

I have fibre at home so I don't worry much but my contract is with Vodacom so I was annoyed that it did not work.

Annoyed myself, probably bought too much Telkom data, had to go to extra expense, due to Vodacom failure.

But crap happens

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Everyone good?

No idea, will see when I properly wake up, later in the day, thanks.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Has not been the best network since about 2018. MTN solidly owned them.

They are not very graceful about that, not that I care much for best, just that it delivers what I need, and pay for.

 

[Nemus]

I don't know why but that's super depressing to read, lol, shame dude that sucks.

It'll be ok.. making sure to screengrab it while at home just in case.

 

[Swa]

I feel sorry for those that bought those disgraceful valid for 1 day or 1 hour data bundles....

Blended problems.

 

[Swa]

Has not been the best network since about 2018. MTN solidly owned them.

Vodacom has been consistently average for me for the last decade.

 

[skeptic_SA]

Hi Bradley

May you please provide me with your email address via PM. Let’s see what we can do for you.

Hey why not? Works for Rain

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Vodacom seems to be functioning this morning, will monitor thru the day, hopefully I don't have too many pissed off clients that could not get hold of me.

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

Is Vodacom turning into the new Cell C? How stable and good in MTN? Maybe it's time to move to them. And all praise to pre-paid!

 

[mercurial]

That's what happens when you update Windows 10.

 

[BlackStatic]

Ho-leeee crap that was a huge outage, everything went online at around 12-1 last night...

Parys Telkom seems to rely heavily on Vodacom infrastructure, literally everything was dead, phones, fixed LTE, dsl, the works. So much for redundancy! Scary!

I would REALLY like to see what the root cause for this was, hectic.

 

[BlackStatic]

Everyone good?

Ja but that was the biggest outage I've ever experienced across that many layers of services, insane! Are you okay?

 

[Cpt Jack Celliers]

I am a new Vodacom Fibre user and have experienced about 4 significant outages this year since getting on the network, so much so that I have had to keep my Telkom LTE subscription for redundancy. In each case I visit the Vodacom website and can find no network status messages. I visit their Twitter feed and just see hundreds of rosy posts complimenting them, but no network status posts. Is it too much to ask a giant like Vodacom to setup a network status domain like this one for Google: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status. And to broadcast network status messages from its Twitter feed. So that at least there is communication even if there isn't service.

 

[Rickster]

Why didnt VC disclose what the issue was instead of just saying its fixed?

 

[Dan C]

Is Vodacom turning into the new Cell C? How stable and good in MTN? Maybe it's time to move to them. And all praise to pre-paid!

Go for it. Stupidity doesn't come around every day.

 

[LazyLion]

Vodacom IS a network problem.

 

[Anthro]

I am a new Vodacom Fibre user and have experienced about 4 significant outages this year since getting on the network, so much so that I have had to keep my Telkom LTE subscription for redundancy. In each case I visit the Vodacom website and can find no network status messages. I visit their Twitter feed and just see hundreds of rosy posts complimenting them, but no network status posts. Is it too much to ask a giant like Vodacom to setup a network status domain like this one for Google: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status. And to broadcast network status messages from its Twitter feed. So that at least there is communication even if there isn't service.

You will find that those types of "Status Page" will only be used by those providers who are happy to brag about their uptime, SA providers have so many outtages I reckon those graphs would not look so good to represent uptime and therefor refute their SLA's should they exist.