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?

Phone on Tony Andrew Meyer

Vodafone subsumes ihug: can't handle Internet or phone