19-08-2024
08:53 PM
- last edited on
19-08-2024
09:22 PM
by
MikeT
I too use vofafone network and my phone will not make a call to an EE friends mobile. It can call my mobile but not the other way around. I hear it ringing on my phone, but it does not ring on the ee phone. When I call the ee phone from an o2 number it rings and connects as it should do, What is wrong? Where is the error?
20-08-2024 09:05 PM
@henryt84 wrote:
As suspected vodafone dont really want to know and palm me off with ASDA who dont have any serious level of tech support..... guess its down to cost.
Are you a VF-direct customer, or with Asda Mobile? If the latter, VF are absolutely right to refer you to your network provider. They are a budget-MVNO and one of the factors anyone choosing an MVNO needs to consider is the lack of support they potentially have.
@henryt84 wrote:
but its sad that no one wants to pick up on the problem.... guess its down to cost.
No-one is saying that, but there are correct processes to follow. Any "I can't receive calls" issue should indeed be investigated by the recipient network, but it's your friend who is EE's customer, not you.
Nowhere can I see evidence of EE suggesting this is a VF issue.
21-08-2024 08:55 AM
A search of forums will show that the connections problems between VF and EE has plenty of comment together with conclusions.
Cant make a call , cant receive the call is surely call cannot be made and the other is semantics.
The suggestion that a user who chooses a budget service must accept a poor service is quite alarming. The large network providers often create simplified packages so that they can increase their share of the market and revenue. The fundemental ability to make just a simple voice call is not a big ask from a user. Some low volume users may not want the same package that a buisness would,
In this particular case the octagenarian receiver with memory issues does not possess the ability to contact his provider and supply details of accounts, email address etc. It will not happen. He would be able to provide his phone number and this seems to satisfy most of the system to identify him.
The jargon and acronyms used by techies within these responses would be complely unintelligible to him.
Things are not made simple for the user and it is easy to see that the cost of deploying an engineer to invesigate this problem would cancel any profit made from this user for the forseeable future.
21-08-2024 09:32 AM
Are you a VF-direct customer, or with Asda Mobile?
21-08-2024 09:43 AM
Hi @henryt84
Has your friend, by any chance, Accidently blocked your mobile number?
21-08-2024 09:47 AM
No. I checked his phone during a recent visit.
21-08-2024 09:49 AM - edited 21-08-2024 10:01 AM
The symptoms described are certainly consistent with an inadvertent blocking, I would be trying to intentionally block & unblock as a test, to see whether the symptoms change. Also try calling with & without a withheld number.
Earlier in the thread there was a query whether text messages worked from the OP to their friend - I don't see an answer to this.
Are you a VF-direct customer, or with Asda Mobile?
21-08-2024 10:31 AM
I dont wish to go around the houses with this series of tests. I live more than 100 miles from my friend. This week I visited him. I stood next to his phone and called from my 02 and it worked. I then called from my Asda ( vf ) and it went straight to his voicemail. Thus the call gets into the EE system.
I can confirm that his phone will call me, but because he was a PAYG user, the arrangement was that once I saw that he was calling me I would then call him back on my mobile ( saves him from the high charges). This worked once only! All other attempts to call him result in ringing ( on my phone) but silent on his, or more recently my call goes staight to his voicemail.
At first I thought that this was because he was in a blackspot or more likely that the phone battery was flat, The recent visit showed that neither of these was the case.
Re texts, I sent one ( it did not bounce back) but when I asked him he, not suprisingly, did not understand the concept of texting.
21-08-2024 10:39 AM
@henryt84 wrote:I dont wish to go around the houses with this series of tests.
Oh, Pardon us...