I do have a Sure Signal and when my last modem had a thingy-bob to connect the cable from the signal box to, the Sure Signal worked fine. My latest modem does not have enough adaptor thingy-bobs for me to connect the Sure Signal into the modem so, for now, I have no signal.The Sure Signal has a capacity for nine handsets, but you have to nominate the numbers that will get a boost. Say Aunt Daisy has come to stay with you unannounced, and is on Vodaphone, she would not get a signal. However,your spouse / partner / brother / sister etc who lives with you and whose numbers you have registered would get a signal.And here is an interesting thing about the Sure Signal Box. When the Sure Signal first appeared, in 2009 / 2010 (?)Vodaphone's marketing campaign was claiming that Vodaphone were the only network to guarantee a signal if you had a Sure Signal Box. So, of course, I rang Vodaphone to ask for one telling them I couldn't get a signal at home. Unsurprisingly there was a catch. They wanted a cool £120 off me to purchase one. I pointed out that it was not advertised that you had to buy a box in order for Vodaphone to guarantee the signal, but they referred me to the small print printed on the billboard poster! (I saw the poster on the eastbound platform of the Circle Line at Paddington Station when I was travelling westbound. How can one be expected to read any minute print from that far away?!)Anyway, I was so annoyed by this and Vodaphone's attitude that I complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)about the advertisement. The ASA upheld my complaint and the posters and the rest of their advertising campaign using the same material were quickly taken down. The ASA told me that I was one of seventeen complaints that they had received about the same advert. Five of these came from the general public, and the other twelve were split between O2, Orange and T-mobile.Following my complaint to Vodaphone telling them I was going to complain to the ASA about their advert, a Sure Signal Box suddenly appeared out of the blue. Since then, I have been receiving other discounts routinely. I have no idea if these other discounts are related to my complaint to the ASA, but there are no two ways about it that I've been treated to better deals etc than I was ever used to getting before I lodged a complaint to the ASA. The deal I am currently on is the only reason why I haven't left them. However, if there is no improvement to the signal by the time my contract expires I am jumping ship. (Take note Ian Boyle!)Take heart all on the ASA thing: it can be worth complaining about an advert that is not legal, decent, honest and truthful and get yourself a resolution that you couldn't do by yourself.
Ben Owen ● 5134d