Close to 2 months on, I do have a question, Paul.

How do I set my account back to receive paper billing? I have spent 20mins 
on My Vodafone, your search system and your forums, and either I'm working 
too late, or it's the best hidden option in the system.

And if it's supposed to be automatic, I haven't had a bill, text or email 
from vodafone except for the ones to tell me my bill is over due. Been that 
way since Oct/Nov last year I think.

I would post on your forums, but to be honest, I haven't hated navigating a 
website so much for many years and I can't be stuffed going through the 
regististration process to ask.

Cheers
Aaron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brislen, Paul, VF-NZ" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:06 PM
Subject: [phpug] Well offtopic, but I thought you'd like to see this



Hi folks, those with longer memories will recall the thread about our
billing practices. Below is the press release I just sent out to the
media... Thanks to you all for your feedback and help - having pages of
emails to wave in the air really helped.

Any questions, let me know.

Cheers

Paul

Media Release
2 February 2009


Vodafone's paper-based bill lives on

Well, that didn't work, did it?

Late last year we announced we'd introduce a new online billing process
that meant customers would be able to receive a TXT or email alert about
their bill and could go online to pay it.

Nice idea, we thought. People will like that we're thinking of the trees
and the convenience factor will be a big plus. Certainly the trial group
liked it, so we rolled it out to the public. To encourage customers
along we also said we'd charge $1.50 per month for those customers who
still want a paper bill, with that charge kicking in some time in the
first half of this year.

And that's where the wheels came off.

Our customers have told us they quite like the idea of online billing
but they hate, hate, HATE the idea of being charged to receive a paper
bill.

Did we mention they hate it? Well they do. And we're going to listen to
what they say.

So, being the company we are we've decided to do a U-turn, an about
face, a 180: now you can get your bill in the post each month if you so
want, and it won't cost a penny.

In fact, we'll go a step further - customers can opt to carry on getting
the email or TXT alerts, they can get a paper bill posted out to them or
they can chose to get their bill emailed out to them in PDF format.

And we'd like to say sorry for all the trouble. We're not perfect. We're
only human but hopefully we're grown up enough to 'fess up when we make
a mistake.


- ends -


Paul Brislen
External Communications Manager
Vodafone New Zealand
Mob 021 721 337
Email [email protected]

NOTE TO EDITORS:
Vodafone will be writing to all on account customers asking which method
they'd like to use to receive their bill in the coming weeks. We'll
probably apologise again.
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