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My mobile no. Is [protected], post paid airtel connection. The plan is advance rental executive - rs.999/-. The expiry date of the plan was 13/07/2009. Towards renewal of the plan for a further period of one year fron 14/07/2009 to 13/07/2010, rs.999 / - was paid at airtel relationship centre - reach communications, chrompet, chennai on 30/06/2009. The plan amount of rs.999 / - was paid along with the bill of june, 2009 of rs.306/-. Confirmation of receipt of rs.306 / - was received, but no confirmation was received in respect of renewal of plan charges paid.

The airtel relationship centre at chrompet, chennai was visited on 07/07/2009 personally and they were informed that the money collected from me was not transmitted to airtel. After my reminder only the amount of rs.999 / - was transmitted to airtel.

Arbitrarily and without my consent, airtel renewed the plan from 07/07/2009 and informed me that the expiry date is 06/07/2010. The plan should have been renewed from 14/07/2009 which should carry expiry date of 13/07/2010. Airtel do not seem to understand the simple mathematics of yearly renewal, i. E. , when a plan expires on 13/07/2009 and renewed for one year, the next due date will also be 13/07/2010 only.

Complaints were made and representations to nodal officer and appellate authority also were made, but all in vain. All of them inform that the next date of renewal will only be 06/07/2010 and not 13/07/2010. Seven days of the plan is straightaway taken out by airtel.

Please look into the matter and render justice.

Yours faithfully

H. Subramanian
[protected]

I am the customer of your company since last 1.5-2 years. recentlyI lost my mobile, so I got new mobile & oldest number.My mobile number is [protected].Now the problem is that I can't save contacts in SIM card.
When I complained to the customer care executive they said that this is not our respoinsibilities.You purchase new card.

I had taken an irtel prepaid sim in April'09. The rqiired documents were submited on same time. But afer 2 months the outgoing and in coming calls were stopped and while enquiring it was told that Verification was not done. Any how Airtel issued another sim and subsequently the docs. were again submitted but after almost 1 month again it was asked to submit the docs. as previous docs. were rejected due to their own(Airtel officials) mistake. Again third time the docs were submiited but still the outgoing call has been stopped. Now I can not understand what type of service they are providing the customer. Only they are harassing us. Necessary steps may be taken at the suitable level.
My Mobile no. is [protected].

snehal purohit

Airtel (India) has been me charging Rs 60 per month on account od some Antivirus they provide "On-Request" to their broadband subscribers, even when I had never requested for it, and do not have it on my PC. When questioned, they try to placate by saying they will reverse the charges for the current month, and you wont be charged anymore for this. But they again and again keep charging in every months bill and have the same story to repeat every month, month after month, with no real resolution. I came to know of this fraud since I enquired, but I am sure there must be millions who do not realize and keep paying for these unauthorised charges.

This is just another scam like airtel pushing caller tunes to your cell without authorization and then charging for it.

Hello,

I'm Binil Raj and my number is [protected]. I was using this number as prepaid for the past two months. I have decided to migrate my plan from prepaid to post paid. I have applied for the same by 15th July and I got my post paid connection on 22nd July.

Initially I have paid Rs. 350 for New Connection and Rs. 200 for Bachelor Accommodation. So totally Rs. 550/-

For the past one month I am using this connection without any hassles and I was happy. On 18th August 2009 Airtel disconnected my number without any prior notice. When I contacted the Customer Care they have informed me that they can't provide the service to me since I am residing in a bachelor's room. At this point I would like to bring to your kind notice, that before migrate my plan from prepaid to postpaid I have paid sum of Rs. 200/- for Bachelor Accommodation fee at the point where I have placed the request. I have the proof of records for the above payment. After all these process a person from your organization (AIRTEL) came to my place for address verification and everything was fine.

Few days back my number was blocked due to the accommodation issue. Then after communicating AIRTEL and explain the issue, I have got my connection back. Now again my connection got disconnected for the same reason.

Now, I couldn't understand why AIRTEL disconnected the line even after receiving additional charge from me, that too without any prior notice.

I feel utterly dissatisfied with your service because of these issues. Because of these issues I was not able to concentrate on my business. I have given the number to all my business clients and no one is able to communicate with me. Hence I request you to solve this issue immediately. If I don't get proper response from your end then I will be forced to shoot a legal notice against your organization.

I request you to make some arrangements to get my connection back.

Thanks in advance for all your helps in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,
Binil Raj

Hello,
I want to bring Bharti Airtel notice towards their customer service department specially Nodal officers and Appleate officers in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

I am very old customer of Bharti airtel mobile and using one number [protected] since 4-5 years. I need to relocate to Maharastra for business purpose and kept the number in safe custody in the year of 2008 Feb. I tried contacting airtel officers to let me know the process to further extend the safe custody of my mobile. No one replied to that. When i returned in the month of May 2009 and asked for the number, they very nicely replied that sir your number is activated. I was very happy for such a quick and good response. Later to my suprise, these great folks have given this number to some one else too and some on my behalf blocked my SIM and later i un-blocked the SIM any how i was using this number for more than a month and also received mobile bill too in my address. Later airtel acknowledge me that this number is no more active as its has gone for recycling.
I followed up with them by making numerous call and spend my most of the time and money to get the numeber back. Airtel appleate officer Bangalore told me that he will get the number back for me and assured me that i will get it, but may be in pre-paid format and later i can change it to post paid. He made number of false stories and assurance and made me to wait for more than a month. Airtel officer was such a liar that they cooked stories on Swine-flue etc. etc. He went to the extent by saying me that he will take the prepaid number in his name and will help me in getting the number back to my name. At last after so many false stories from Airtel today they said me that sorry sir this number is blocked by some one else. This is really disgusting and irritating. I want to strongly protest aginst such practices and will urge airtel not to waste other person time and money like this. Airtel should return me back my number with the interest for all the time and money they have wasted of mine.

Using Airtel Mobile No.[protected] from last five years, Airtel seeing my genuiness and regularly
paying bills with no delay, started looting me from
last two years through changing billing plan of higher
billing Plan teriff Plan 299 to Plan 599 means Rs.300.0 extra every month for two years on asking
to Airtel they are not telling reality, why they had
done this, They are telling rubise to me.The mobile
No. alloted to me. I am Dharampal Kapoor.Please
help me in this matter. Thanks.

Airtel has one of the worst broadband services in India; being a private service provider, they are supposed to be better than BSNL which is a government one. But in this case, it seems all they've been concentrating on is the publicity and not the actual quality of service.

I stay in Bangalore and I'd paid Rs. 1000 as installation charges a month back. They had then said they would do it in 3 days. Now whenever I call them up, they give some nonsensical reasons. They even refuse to return the amount.

My advice to Bangaloreans: Do not get deceived by their glamorous ads. Their services suck.

i recently called airtel executive for new airtel broadband connection, they says within 1 day we will install to home, but they take much time to connect, we are still waiting for the connection, whenever we tried to contact the customer care or executive, but the result always nill, we could take any action but coz we deposite 1000 for airtel executive, some times he switch off his mobile or not responding,

im karthikeyan from mugappair east

Airtel Complaints - Amount is deducted from my account!

sent sms on 29.07.09 by Anil Kumar Sharma
Airtel Mob No-[protected]

Amount is deducted from my account!

My mobile service provider is airtel . Every month since may09 whenever i recharge my airtel mobile polytone charge deducted though I never made a request for this to the best of my knowlede. However i never made a repeated complaint but my effort is null & void, When i contacted airtel people, they are not paying attention on this issue simply saying that it is your mistake: "you do what u can do". Rs 50/-, Rs 25/- again Rs 25/- are deducted from my account balance .

This is the worst service I have ever seen.

Airtel has stopped my mobile service on Thursday, 6Aug 09. When asked to Customer Care, reason was "address not verify".

Now see...
I was a Airtel customer from Last 3 years & 5 Months before I have switched from prepaid to Postpaid service (my biggest mistake).

That time also I had submitted the document again for HLR3 CARD - (New DAP300 ) & given them a cheque of 500/- Rs. on 28/07/2009 to Mr. Sachin Pakhidde (Sales Executive)... Then this service starts from 02/08/2009 to 06/08/2009 without disturbance...

Now immediately they have stopped the service without any warning/Communication. And Mr. Sachin Pakhidde (Executive), NAGPUR did not response me on my phone call... I think he did not fill up my address on the Form Properly

and still it's giving the message "SIM CARD REGISTRATION FAILED" Mobile No. [protected]...
Pls, Kindly check this issue & tell me... What was happen?

I have problem with my airtel sim it shows inactive sim. I received sms last week to submit your documents to continue your service.

This is the worst service I have ever seen.

Airtel has stopped my mobile service on Friday 7Aug 09. When asked to Customer Care, reason was "Document not submitted".

Now see...
I was a Aitrtel customer from Last 4 years. 9 Months before I have switched from prepaid to Postpaid service (my biggest mistake). That time also I had submitted the document again.

Now immediately they have stopped the service without any warning/Communication. I have again submitted the document on Friday 7Aug 09 in Airtel Kahamla gallery in Nagpur. They processed (scaned and submitted) my documents on same day. Customer care guyes saying they have not received documents.

and still it's giving the message "SIM CARD REGISTRATION FAILED"

Uptil now I have submitted documents thrice.

Complaint reference on airtel site: 2806 8658.

~Mayur

since last 4 months i have not received the monthly bill for my mobile. when enquired about with company on its hotline customer care no. 888 i have received a foolish answer ebill facility is activated for my no. i have never requested for the same and more surprising thing is that none of my mail id is registered with the company then where this ebill is sent or posted? kindly help me

Hi,

This is with reference to poor connectivity of Airtel in Indirapuram region.

The signal strength in Ashiana Upvan and Indirapuram area is very bad for Airtel mobile user.
Even at ground floor the call drop rate is very high with bad voice quality as the signal is very weak

We had filed in a complain with Airtel, but no action has been taken to improve the same.
This is causing huge inconviniece to Airtel clients.
Details are :

Landmark : Ashiana Upvan, Indirapuram
Duration of problem : 2 year
Type of handsets : Noika, 5610, Samsung
Number of signals (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) : 0, 1
Voice quality (Good, Average, Poor) : Poor
Area (Indoor, Outdoor, Basement, in car) : Outddoor
Wall type (Brick, Concrete) : No wall, I am talking outdoor

Please do the needful.

Best Regards

Pallavi Jain

T3-1016

Ashiana Upvan

Indirapuram
Contact no : [protected]

i have been receiving calls unknown number for some past few weeks.he is introducing himself as a customer care executive of airtel services.after after words of talking he starts using unparliamentary language, ultimately i have to put my phone down due to his misbehaviour.his number is [protected].i have reported this matter to customer care but invain they donot show any positive response.

please look into the matter and take strict and needful action.

Wishes
Dear sir/madam

I have owned a postpaid connection in airtel Tamilnadu. Now i am in Thailand. Before to Thailand, i kept my number in the safe custody for three months. But, my trip was extended in Thailand. I can't get that number.

Now, i am coming to India on this month end. Is there any possibilities to get the same number back. I am using that number for the past 5 years. I need the same number.

my number is : [protected]. I have kept the number on safe custody on Dec'08.
I have got that number in Madurai, Tamilnadu.

Pls, do the needful.

Regards,
M.Rajalaxmi.

Dear concern,
Me & my relative have two airtel sim with Youth pack scheme, Six months back we were usualy receiving a sms from airtel to recharge our sim worth Rs. 101 & get six months validity but few months back suddenly airtel stopped sending this sms, on enquiring from customer care, they told us to recharge with 152 Rs for only one month validity but the extreme is that we completed our validity somewhere on 24-07-09 or 25-07-09 & on recharging our sim with Rs.152 this time it converted into talktime recharge, & on enquiring on customer care many times, we are still not able to recharge our sim, It seems as even customer care is not having adequate knowledge of any thing about airtel sim cards & schemes.
Now You are requested to Pl. guide me for getting validity or refund my money 152 Rs. each that I invested to recharge my numbers i.e.
[protected], [protected]
Also guide me if I could convert this sim no. into Lifetime validity plan.
The considerable thing is that my grace period is ending on
09-08-09, so You people are supposed to react on today only.

best regards
Jai Kumar Mittal
Email : ankug2k @gmail.com

I am an old customer of airtel and i am the firs retailer in my village and had most supported airtel than any retailer done here. On 13-07-2009 i decided to divert my incoming call to my another airtel number for my convience, and i made an offer echarge to reduce the call rate to the diverted number as advised by the customer care. But after diverting i noticed that i am only getting airtel calls as diverted calls, i called customer care and complainted to them.then they asked to change my mobile and said some other reason. then they said they will take a complaint and forward mails and solve my problem within 3 days. but on calling after 3 days they repeted the same. But even after waiting 7 or 8 such "3days", i had not got my issue being solved.
This shows how unprofessional and a false commitments airtel would give ...
My problem is a simpile one, but they would not give much attention to solve it even after 23 days !
If i don t get my connection done within 2 days i would disconnect airtel connections and change most of my customers from Airtel to any other network.