There service has literally become zero, no customer service, technical is unreachable, phoned today and was No. 1 for over an hour. Their app is absolutely useless. Their WhatsApp is just as useless... See more
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With almost three decades of experience, Mweb aims to bring you better internet in pursuit of a better you. Alongside Fibre and Fixed Wireless connectivity, Mweb also offers web hosting, domain registration, internet security, VoIP, and premium mailboxes. Have questions? Visit https://help.mweb.co.za/ for easy-to-follow support articles. To chat to an agent, download our app or visit our website www.mweb.co.za for Live Chat. Prefer to talk to us over a call? Sales: 087 700 5000; Support: 087 700 0777 and Billing: 087 700 2121 Technical Support Hours: Mon-Fri: 07:30-20:00 Weekends and Public Holidays: 08:00-18:00
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MWeb is a very bad service provider.
The call center does NOT pick up calls and eventually after holding on for more than 40mins, drop the call.
Live Chat is the same with no response
I have tried unsuccessfully since 4 April to talk to an agent.
The support team is inefficient and incompetent. Billing is in incompetent and inefficient.
I have had no emails in or out for more than 1 week and I cannot access any help at all.
Today I will look for another service provider
I am currently holding on for 35min.
Closing the call , it's just a waste of my airtime
I cannot log in to emails

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Just shut your doors. Switch off your system. Your Company is already dead.
Totally useless Company.

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Mweb’s cancellation process is deliberately frustrating and completely unacceptable.
I have spent hours trying to cancel my service through every available channel—calls, transfers to the cancellations department, and live chat—and not once was I actually assisted. Calls lead nowhere, and live chat connects you just to leave you waiting indefinitely with no response.
At this point, it is difficult not to conclude that this is intentional. The process feels designed to delay customers from cancelling so they can continue billing them for as long as possible.
I have now been forced to submit a formal written cancellation after being ignored across multiple platforms. This level of service is not just poor—it is exploitative.
I will be escalating this matter further if necessary.
Avoid Mweb if you value your time, your money, and basic customer service.

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Would rate 0 if it was an option. I honestly had hope when one of their representatives phoned me to apologize but for the second month in a row, 4 x the expected amount was debited from my account because no one can wrap their head around changing the faulty system, I wish I had never joined mweb. You are understaffed-CLEARLY. For an ISP your setup from whatsapp to your company app displays mediocre poorly designed and delivered technology. If you guys want to do me a favour or at least make right - set me free from this nightmare without a penalty, or is that how you make your money. Drive your customers insane hope they cancel prematurely and then bank your penalty fees....

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Billed me twice within 2 weeks, trying to get hold of them entire day, no one responds

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Mweb is the absolute worst and their support agents are terrible. I left a review about their terrible service where I ordered a product and they didn’t told tell me anything about the product not being available after waiting for long without communication. I cancelled the order and the agent said they would process the order but I contacted them again after a few days and that’s only when someone actually cancelled the order and said I would get my refund in a few days. This was on the 7th of April. A week later I try to contact them and no agent responds and a day after I contact them again just for them to tell me that I need to submit documents for the refund to get processed. Why did they not tell me this when I requested the refund on the 7th. I keep having to contact them and only then do they do their job. And mweb sending a reply to the review to say they will look into it. Yet they do not even know who the reviewer is or have not requested my details. I am going to escalate this issue and ensure mweb is held accountable for this terrible service.

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I'm only two weeks with MWEB and have experienced 40 hour no internet

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This situation has now become completely unacceptable. The WiFi has deteriorated to the point where almost nothing works anymore. No streaming services will load, every app and website is stuck loading, TikToks are blurry or freeze, Instagram takes forever to open, and we cannot even load a basic webpage.
It has now gone beyond inconvenience because even phone calls are affected. We cannot properly take calls from family because the connection is so bad we cannot hear anything. Sandown already has poor cellphone signal in many areas, so when the WiFi also fails, we are left with virtually no reliable way to communicate or use the internet at all.
This has been ongoing for two weeks and keeps getting worse despite multiple attempts to contact support through calls, live chat, and DM. We have waited in queues only for calls to disconnect, and no proper solution has been given. We are paying for a service that is now practically unusable.
This needs urgent escalation, immediate investigation in the Sandown area, and a real update today. Please stop sending generic responses and have someone fix this properly.
Account owner: Khumo Tshepe

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Imagine being told your mailbox has been upgraded for free, and with it, comes a 3GB limit (no longer 2GB)! So exciting! You check to make sure you stay in the limits. At 10 am today, you have an email saying your mailbox is 91% full. At 14:00 you get a mail to say LIMIT EXCEEDED your mailbox is 125% full! You try to 'chat to an (invisible) agent' on the website. You're holding on, calling MWEB while listening to wrist-slitting music. You are 'caller number 11' in the queue at 14:00. You keep holding because you're desperate. You resort to the whatsapp line. You start calling them USELESS. After ONE HOUR an individual comes online to say 'CECILE you're through to the wrong department. You should have chosen HOSTING. I'll put you through and MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. Of course the nameless faceless keyboard warrior doesn't say who they are. You keep waiting for the 'hosting' individual to appear. No luck, 2 hours later. After wasting 1h59 seconds of holding on and being lucky caller 3 in line, (is MWEB THAT bad at solving problems that they can only deal with EIGHT people in 2 hours' time?? I guess so!) THEN YOUR CALL GETS CUT! After being with the predecessors of MWEB for over 20 years (Global.co.za, Tiscali, then unfortunately MWEB) I've had around 400 spam emails over the past month which apparently was being 'looked into' (they're still rolling in). I've been stabbed in the back by a company that decides to cut my mailbox size by 30% in seconds without notifying me, and there is ZERO support. So let this be a warning to internet deal hunters. Don't say you weren't warned!
TO MWEB: You've replied, thank you. But my issues are this.
1. I cannot reply to your reply.
2. I've used Zimbra your mail platform for at least 8 years. I know how to check the space that mails take.
3. I know EXACTLY how much mail was in my mailbox as I CONSTANTLY monitor the space left in my mailbox, watching the BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER space indicator. At 10.01 yesterday my mailbox was 94% full. (I have your email to prove it). At 2.17 pm I got another email to say 'mailbox size limit exceeded'. I looked at the size indicator on the left hand bottom corner and it said I SUDDENLY had 125% too much mail in my mailbox.
4. What you're FAILING TO ADDRESS is this. YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE PERMITTED MY MAILBOX TO GO TO 125% full. EVER. It would have STOPPED SYNCING at 100% full as it has always done, for the past 8 years. So this is what happened. YOU had given me a 3GB mailbox when you did the mail migration in January. This was confirmed by a tech support team member telephonically. I had still asked them because I couldn't understand how I could suddenly move from '93% full' to '70% full' in an instant! I had LOTS of space. What you did was on Tuesday 14 April YOU instantly reduced my mailbox size BACK to 2084mb size! WITHOUT WARNING. Hence the 125% 'full' email!!!
5. My questions are this. WHY did you then increase it to 3GB in January?
6. WHY was it reduced to 2GB yesterday?
7. YOu're also ignoring the elephant in the room. WHY are your calls not being answered after 1hour59min and 59seconds AND BEING DROPPED? Do you not have a tech support contact centre anymore?
8. The spam emails YOU are aware of and I'm not the only one. I called about them 6 weeks ago and when I selected MAIL on the call options, there was a message saying 'WE ARE AWARE OF THE INFLUX OF SPAM MESSAGES, our team is trying to address this'. So it's not just me. When I called back 2 weeks later the person suggested that I move all the hundreds of spam messages to my junk folder so the 'system' can 'learn' what to reject. I did this. There were 300 mails in my spam inbox yesterday. Which I have now deleted to make space. I WAS SENDING YOU THEM via ABUSE email and NOT A SINGLE RESPONSE WAS RECEIVED. I can't even FORWARD That mail as the emails have now been deleted. But please don't pretend you don't know about this.
9. FOr your rude whatsapp consultant to tell me to 'watch my language' which I have screenshot proof of, is unacceptable. Calling a service USELESS (and NOT SWEARING, NOT USING ANY PROFANITY) is not on! Telling me I SELECTED THE WRONG DEPARTMENT after waiting on whatsapp for 1 hour (When I selected TECHNICAL SUPPORT) is NOT acceptable. WHY DO YOU NOT ADDRESS THE FACT THAT YOUR SERVICE IS TERRIBLE????

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This service is pathetic.On hold for 30 minutes and they just cut you off...try again and the same happened.The chat line is also a joke......you wait forever for their response:Wait for next available agent!!!

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Terible, don't care for their client's only their money. Bad service, Terible experience i have with them. Terible Terible Terible, no Jan influence.

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Called in on 10 April 2026 to cancel 2 of my lines due to difficulties reaching them. Was 12th in the call in line when I called. Waited until I was 8th in the queue, left the phone on speaker then had breakfast, had a shower and got dressed and was still 8th in the queue after 1 hour and 17 minutes. I hung up. Sounds like their was only 1 agent on call. Tried their live chat on the MWEB app 3 times and still no reply. Hard to believe hey?

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I want to cancel my contract with them because they are completely useless.

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I am raising a complaint against Mweb for repeated poor customer service.
I have waited on your call centre line on three separate occasions for up to 2 hours each time. That totals 6 hours with no resolution.
Each time I reach first position in the queue, my call gets dropped.
I also tried your chat on both your app and website. No assistance received.
Your self-help option fails as well. I do not receive the OTP required to proceed, even though my contact details remain unchanged.
Due to this ongoing issue, I am cancelling my service with immediate effect.
This level of service is unacceptable. I expect confirmation of cancellation and a final statement.

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Their service sucks actually there is no service. How is it expected of a client to be on hold for an hour? Their chat is useless, app and emails the same. You will be on hold for an hour when you ultimately get an agent in the middle of their questions you run out of airtime they will never call you back, what is that? Your service gets suspended while you have paid. I have been Their client since 2014 or 15 and I can't anymore. What i need is a new service provider for the sake of my sanity and leave them with their unprofessionalism.Mweb really sucks. They don't deserve any ratings. I checked their responses to all other reviews i believe a robot is responding. Complaints are the same and their responses are but no changes whatsoever in their services.

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I’m honestly fed up with Mweb at this point.
I was told earlier this month that my payment date was moved to the 15th of every month, and I’ve been following that arrangement. Now suddenly my Wi-Fi is disconnected before the 15th like I’ve done something wrong?
So what exactly is going on with your system?
Every month it’s a new problem. Customers are expected to tolerate service downtime without compensation, but the moment there’s a billing issue — even when there’s an agreement in place — you cut people off immediately with no flexibility.
I’ve tried resolving this through support, but I’m getting nowhere.
This is extremely frustrating and honestly pushing me to cancel my contract completely.
Mweb, you need to fix your billing system and start treating customers fairly.

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We tried to cancell multiple times but is still paying every month after paying the cancelation fee of R1500, useless customer service, a waste of money litterly.

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Mweb can come and kiss my ass I've been trying to get hold of u guys for the pass two weeks now last month I had a problem with my wifi we had move and they had to come and reinstall the wifi not long after that a wire came loose I reached out waited a few days it was fixed not and they Evan billed us extra for the time that the wifi was off our wifi was not Evan that amount i quiry that didnt really recieve any help...I'm again disconnected to my wifi since 3 of April I'm trying to live chat but my waiting hour is sometimes 5 to 6 hours and when I reach a consultant they take two hours to reply when asked y they say that they trying to make the que go quicker but no one helped me when I was waiting 6 hours for a consultant my wifi is off again now for two weeks and I'm not winning in getting help from this ppl😡

Reply from Mweb
Signup process was quite simple!
Activation was smooth and the Tech support team was very helpful with setting up my router..
Over all experience was Amazing!!!

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My experience with MWeb has been an absolute disaster from start to finish. Since October 2025, I’ve been dealing with constant on-and-off connectivity, making the service completely unreliable. At times, I wasn’t connected at all for extended periods, yet I was still expected to pay as if everything was functioning normally.
What’s even more unacceptable is how my support tickets were handled—closed without anyone actually resolving the issue. This shows a complete lack of professionalism and respect for customers. It feels like problems are simply brushed aside rather than properly addressed.
Trying to get help was another nightmare. Calling customer care meant waiting an average of 45 minutes just to speak to someone, only to receive little to no meaningful assistance. The entire process is inefficient and incredibly frustrating.
Overall, I am extremely dissatisfied with the service. MWeb has proven to be unreliable, unresponsive, and careless when it comes to customer support. Cancelling their service was long overdue, and I would strongly caution others against signing up unless they’re willing to deal with ongoing issues and poor service delivery.

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