Vodafone subsumes ihug: can't handle Internet or phone

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:33:49 +1200

Vodafone, who I used to think was an ok company, bought and then subsumed ihug, who once was a good company (but had previously sunk to terrible depths). Ihug did all sorts of nutty side ventures, but generally was a company specialising in Internet access and phone calls. I called Vodafone yesterday, and got a “sorry, we are experiencing high call volume. Please call back” message. And then it hung up! No queue, no way to set up a call from Vodafone back to me to help. Just hanging up on me. Today, I go to the Vodafone website (because it appears that their DNS servers are dead; thank goodness for OpenDNS) and I get: [caption id=“attachment_95” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Vodafone”][/caption] If an ISP can’t handle serving up their own homepage, are they really a good choice? If you’re a business, would you even consider talking to them at this point?

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:00:55 +1200

There was a lengthy discussion on this week’s TWiT about bandwidth metering; the topic was discussed on the Daily Source Code for a few episodes a while back too. Although Dvorak is often excessively inflammatory and I don’t always agree with what he says, this was a case where he was clearly right and everyone else (well, Leo really did all the talking) is wrong. The biggest problem is that Leo is confusing two separate issues:

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Vodafone subsumes ihug: can't handle Internet or phone

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