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Southern Phone Home Phone
AndrewHobart
- 3 reviews
- 6 likes
- Verified customer
The mobile calls you make when you're not making any calls
Having finally reached the end of my tether with that other Aussie Telco, I transferred my home phone plus two mobiles to Southern Phone last November. I was very happy with my decision until last month, when I noticed a new charge of $1.22 on my mobile phone for 'special calls'.
On enquiring I received the following 'response': HI Andrew,
I have reviewed your account and upon further inspection I've found those are in fact Due to Imessage or Facetime not being activated within the phone settings. Each time an sms is sent to another ipho...Read more
ne, apple send an sms to a third party number which is the one that appears on the statement as an alert to activate these things within the settings. I apologies for any confusion this issue has caused. Kind Regards Jack I know I'm getting a bit long in the tooth, but I do consider myself to be reasonably tech savvy. However, I can't for the life of me, make sense of what this reply is saying. I went into the settings on my mobile phone and disabled everything I could find that I thought might be causing my phone to send off phantom SMS messages without my knowledge. I also wrote back to Southern Phone, stating that I'd disabled the apps that I thought might be causing the problem and pointing out that my online research revealed almost nobody anywhere who was being charged for such 'calls'. I didn't receive a response and assumed I had fixed the problem.2 comments
I would like to amend my initial review of Southern Phone, based solely on the amazing customer support that we received from Yvette at Southern Phone. She tried to help us through the dilemma that w... Read more
e were experiencing with my Iphone (sending hidden SMS messages to an overseas Apple number) and nobody could have done more to help get the issue resolved. We weren't ultimately successful in getting the matter sorted but I can only conclude that there must be some strange issue with my particular Iphone. Meanwhile, true to her promise, Yvette had the charges reversed. While we might not have achieved the outcome that was hoped for, I feel that the matter was resolved satisfactorily.Similar opinion? Write a review on ProductReview.com.au!
Robyn
- 2 reviews
Frustrated customer
Having been a southern customer for 5 years have been trying to get my 91 year old mother onto one of the advertised plans in the brochure managed to get through on the no on the brochure once in 4 weeks and was told I had to have my mother authorise me to do it, I live 30 mins away and can never get on at her house she is unable to do this herself thinking of changing phone co my self as if I had any problems it would be useless. Very frustrating.
November 10th 2017 Update: Once again disappointed with Southern Phone Service
I was very u...Read more
pset to receive an $11 overdue payment fee after 5 years of perfect record of payment an oversight happened as Southern Phone sent my mothers account to me which I have requested they do not do, and this is where the confusion happened. A friendly reminder might have been nice obviously they do not value their long term customers.1 comment
Very disappointed to receive an $11 overdue fee on my account I have been a customer for over 5 years and have never missed a payment, a friendly reminder might have been nice, I am also receiving my ... Read more
mother's phone bill to my account which I asked not to happen as this is where the confusion occurred. I am feeling this is the last straw with your company after all the other frustrations. RobynSimilar opinion? Write a review on ProductReview.com.au!
Questions & Answers
Norma Carpenter asked
Do you service 49089 area?
1 answer
Southern Phone C.Southern Phone
Hi Norma,
We service all of Australia. If you would like some more information, please head on over to our website:
www.southernphone.com.au
Lynette Lardenoyeasked
I have trouble contacting you on the phone I sat on the line for 35 minutes approximately it dropped out and I called back it dropped out again after 23 minutes. The internet is crappy drops out quite often the phone line is atrocious very noisy. Your techs were supposed to fix it over a week ago. It’s still dreadful
4 answers
LOL sounds typical of this company, they are woeful, depending on time of day if late in day no one will take your call as they have left for day, our phone line also atrocious and we have been waiting for it to be fixed for 6 monthes. Good luck.
We have decided to switch internet and home phone to another company. We found Southern phone lack of customer service very frustrating on several occasions over the last 12months.
We are very pleased with our new company. We have better internet, more data and faster speed for a cheaper price. After reading several reviews - we are more than pleased we no longer will be dealing with Southern Phone
Southern Phone C.Southern Phone
Hi Lynette,
I am really sorry to hear you have not been able to get in touch with us recently. I apologise for the inconvenience this has caused, I can understand how frustrating it can be when your service isn't working correctly. Can you please respond to my private message with your account details so I may assist? *Shelby
Brianasked
I have also had the run around with Southern Phone, since porting our home phone number over to them. Our Next Phone connection will only let us ring out. Tech people tell me there was a sync problem, which they did fix. However the problem has come back after a few days! I have had a similar experience with waiting times. It is best to ring at 0800 but you will still have to wait to talk to a techie. Brian.
3 answers
thank you
I ended up disconnecting my home phone. Good luck, I hope your service continues to work without hiccups. I had enough. And would strongly urge people to look elsewhere for a service
Southern Phone C.Southern Phone
Hi Brian,
I am really sorry to hear that your landline service is not working as it should. Are you able to respond to my private message with your account details so I may assist you further? *Shelby
Details
| Category | Home Phone Service Providers |
|---|---|
| Phone Services Offered | Business and Residential |
| Free International Calls Plan | No |
| Plan Type | Home Phone Only |
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Southern Phone C.Southern Phone
Hi Andrew,
to review the charges on the account and apply the necessary credits. If you are able to respond to my private message requesting your account details I can investigate this issue further and give you a ring to have this resolved. *YvetteI would firstly like to apologise for the issues you have been experiencing with our team. The response you received was confusing and should have been advised over a call. I would be happy... Read more