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Consumer Issues

Vodafone's reputation depends on earning the trust of its customers. Their loyalty is vital to the long-term success of our business. This section covers a range of issues that we believe play an important part in maintaining customer trust.

Important consumer issues include the clarity of our pricing, the responsibility of our marketing material, the way we handle customer privacy and our measures to protect customers from inappropriate content, contact and commercialism. We also address other consumer issues such as responsible mobile phone use, driving safety and mobile theft.

Customers can now access an ever-expanding range of features and services on their mobile phones, including picture messaging, downloadable games, music, pictures and video clips, internet access and mobile television. These technologies bring significant benefits to our business and personal lives, but can also raise concerns about misuse.

Our aim is to ensure customers are satisfied with our service and in control of how they use it. We continually review our policies as we are introducing new services such as mobile advertising, home broadband internet services and partnerships with social networking websites to make them available via mobile.

Helping parents to protect their children

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Many parents know less than their children about mobiles and online services. This makes it difficult for them to protect their children.

We have a range of initiatives in our local operating companies to help educate parents. We also work with several different NGOs at a local level.



Mobile theft

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Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones are stolen each year.

We have established equipment identity registers (EIRs) in 16 of our operating companies. EIRs can be used to block mobiles that are reported stolen using your phone's unique 15 digit IMEI number.



Driving safety

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Having a mobile phone in your car makes it easier to contact emergency services when necessary and assists breakdown recovery. However, using a mobile phone while driving can distract drivers and increase the risk of accidents.


Content standards

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A vast and growing range of content can now be accessed via mobile phones. This includes downloadable games, music and videos and web pages both within the Vodafone live! portal and on the wider global internet.

Our internet filters and access controls help parents to protect their children from accessing inappropriate age-restricted content via their mobile phones.



Your views

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