Definitely leaving Vodafone now then. I was unhappy anyway as when I joined up my first dongle lasted 4 days, carphone warehouse replaced it, then it last 1 week, replaced it again, then it lasted a week again, this time carphone warehouse would not replace it. The whole time I was getting voltage errors on my USB slot, they had never heard of it, I was doing nothing wrong and nothing else in my laptop caused the error either.
So I told them to shove it and went to vodafone, bought another dongle (fool me), but also bought a USB extension lead hoping that might chew up some of the voltage and stop these errors. Sure enough, I've been on the same dongle for 3 months now, however, it still has multiple disconnects a day, some days maybe 5, some days 55. Somedays it does not recognise the dongle so I have to reboot.
I am currently job hunting so pretty much all my usage is job sites, e-mail, and some news reading, no youtube or anything, yet I have to top up every 3 or so as 3Gb is not enough for me. So if Vodafone are reducing the tariff to 2Gb, I won't be topping up again, I'll find alternate provider, whether it costs the same or not.
Perhaps if the service was ALWAYS on, I wouldn't mind, but when the quality is worse than an undeveloped country, and appears to be getting worse, then I can not understand nor appreciate their reasoning for this increase.
Also, with only 1 reply (albeit unhelpful or sympathetic) from a Vodafone rep on this thread, it truly does demonstrate how our custom is valued.
