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Idea Cellular Hero Honda customer being cheated by Idea executive

I took a hero Honda corporate idea plan last month . As per hero Honda corporate plan & as committed by idea executive (Mr. Ajay Pandey) my CUG call must be free. Now in my bill these are being charged. After too many complaints and follow up now I am being told that as per new train regulation these can't be free. If this information would have been told to me earlier I would have gone for other operator.

Thus it is a negligence by your executive (MR. Ajay Pandey) i.e he does not have the knowledge that now CUG is not free now.Now I am trapped by Idea as I have already paid my advance rental for TWO YEARS & Rs. 2000 as my interim payment. So either return my all the deposit or make my CUG free as committed by your executive(Mr. Ajay Pandey). This is nothing but cheating the customer. How can IDEA change any plan without intimating the customer (i.e now CUG is not free in HERO HONDA plan).

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LILA SUMIDA
IN
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Nov 29, 2009 10:41 pm EST

Idea is a BIG SCAM company, They charged me unauthorised charges of above rs 500 few months ago saying that I have subscribed to their gprs service which I clearly didn't & when I spoke with the customer service they repeteadly kept on telling me that you had subscribed to it is not refundable. I make myself to forget the charge & now again a few days back they charged me again rs 50 saying that I have sent STD messages & It made me mad. Why on the earth I will spend 50 rs for sending messages instead of calling. when I contacted them then they were rude & told me that you have sent it & we will not refund a penny & when I asked them the numbers on which the messages has been sent, They start giving me run around. I am 100% sure that they are cheap ###ing BS scammers with a bamboo in their ### & jumping all day hungry for people's money, They have scammed thousands. this company should be shut down & owners should be put behind the bars. MOTHER###ERS, Randi ke beej saale.

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Idea Cellular Irritating calls!

I bought an idea connection in february. Since then, almost once everyday i get irritating calls from their unsolicited customer care number, asking me to download Dialer Tone and ringtones. I do not want any dialer tone. But last week when i got the same call, i disconnected it as usual without pressing any button. Immediately i got a message that Dialer Tone has been activated. I was really annoyed, more so because RS. 40 were also deducted from my account.

I had to call up their customer care at least 5 times to get it canceled and convince them that there was some problem in the software. But the customer care operators were rude and adamant saying again and again that it cannot be activated on its own and that it was some misunderstanding from my part.

What do they think? Ss it my hobby to call customer care operators without any reason and waste my time? I was asked to call at some other no. to get my dialer tone canceled, the charges for which are Rs. 7 /min! After much of verbal riots i got to get it canceled by them. My friend who was a witness to this annoying incident was also surprised by the faulty system.

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Azadi from promotions
Kochi, IN
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Mar 02, 2009 11:53 pm EST

http://ndncregistry.gov.in/ndncregistry/index.jsp

The primary objective of the National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC Registry) is to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC). UCC has been defined as "any message, through telecommunications service, which is transmitted for the purpose of informing about, or soliciting or promoting any commercial transaction in relation to goods, investments or services which a subscriber opts not to receive, but, does not include, ----

(i) any message (other than promotional message) relating to a service or financial transaction under a specific contract between the parties to such contract;or

(ii) any messages relating to charities, national campaigns or natural calamities transmitted on the directions of the Government or agencies authorized by it for the said purpose;

(iii) messages transmitted, on the directions of the Government or any authority or agency authorized by it, in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality."

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Idea Cellular Customer care executive misguided with the wrong information

I have received a call from the Idea customer care and the executive told that a plan will be activated on my prepaid number for which I have to make a payment of Rs500 and i will be provided 1000 minutes local call free, 1000 sms free and 100min for std free and after taking the amount i was told that i will be provided with a new postpaid number and i have to pay monthly rental of Rs 399 and those 1000 minutes will be from idea to idea.

I was provided the wrong information that this plan is for prepaid connection and then the plan is also changed. Kindly look in the matter and stop providing wrong information to the customers.

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kiranwanjari
IN
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Jul 04, 2011 11:07 am EDT

sir mera nam kiranwanjari hai
mera mobile no. [protected]
sir mere mobile me cricket sms activat ho gaya hai
pease usko deactivate karne ya karane ki kripa kare
abhi do ya tin din pahle hi mai apne mobile internet activate
karaya to mera purana balence karib 40/- ke aas pass kat gaya tha, to pata nahi cricket sms kab activat ho gaya, isse mere mobile me 28/- ke ###-pass phir kat gaya,
please cricket sms ko deactivate kare aor sms is mobile me band kare,
email id, kiranwanjari@gmail.com
dhanyawad

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Ganesh Sugumar
IN
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Oct 28, 2009 10:28 am EDT

Sir my mobile number is [protected] am using this number for last 2 yrs. when ever am calling to the customer care in the rajasthan circle [protected] else they properly respond or just switch on the voice mails informing the customers are busy. am just frustated for the same i just trying to de activate my GPRS settings but no one is guiding for the same. The Idea celleluar is having such a nice reputation in the market, but due to the improper responsibility of the customer care i think so u will be losing all the godwil what ur company has earned, plz help me for the same in next few working hrs is some one is indeed to do it so, else i need to change my sim no other go

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Dharmveer Tripathi
Gurugram, IN
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Sep 19, 2008 8:37 am EDT

My mobile number [protected] is not woking properly .

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bushy
IN
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Sep 17, 2008 11:56 pm EDT

derz a scheme in idea wich says py 18 rs n gt 50 sms free...n d no of freesms decreases by 6 if u send 1 msg wat is dis supp 2 be

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Sunil Malik
Lucknow, IN
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Sep 17, 2008 1:40 am EDT

Inspite of advance payment the dialing facility is not available.12345 on coputer recording no one is there to listen to the problem.My no.[protected] Pls rectify the problem without any delays.

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dheeraj sharma
Kochi, IN
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Aug 28, 2008 10:58 am EDT

i need to know whose number is this, need to know the exact address or the name of the guy holing this number [protected].

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Pravin Warade
IN
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Aug 20, 2008 3:55 pm EDT

My mobile no [protected] is block & number is company send other customor, so please [protected] number give me from Pravin Warade, Active Computer, Near Bus Stand, Near b k vyas, Malkapur-443101, Please contact-[protected]

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bhagwan ahuja
Pune, IN
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Aug 04, 2008 8:48 am EDT

actually
i m getting some calls from unknow number. it is like +301, +46401.

sometimes it shown UNKNOWN no number there when i pick up there is no one

can u please tell me from where these numbers are

who is calling me

i want to know as early as possible

MR. BHAGWAN AHUJA
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gujjar vashrambhai
Surat, IN
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Jul 21, 2008 1:46 am EDT

my mobile number is [protected]. my sim is reject. so please start my sim.

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R.P Tiwari
Mumbai, IN
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May 18, 2008 4:42 am EDT

my service incoming and out going close.
my service start plese.
mobil.no. [protected]

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Idea Cellular Balance deducted!

I was having Rs.31 in my mobile on 13th June, and in the evening it reduced to Rs.16. Also on 14th June i recharged my number with Rs.50 recharge coupon after which balance was Rs.56 (Around Rs.16 was the previous balance). But again in the late evening it reduced to Rs.15. I never activated any premium service on my number!

Customer care is telling that they don't have any call details. That means that they will deduct the balance and simply say that they don't have the details! But their supervisor are having but none is ready to arrange a call back or transfer my call!

IDEA IS ONE OF THE WORST COMPANY!

My number is [protected]

Rohin Mittal.

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Jun 17, 2007 4:37 am EDT

Sorry there is one misprint! When i was having Rs.56 then in the evening Balance got reduced to Rs.41.

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Kiran Manohar
Kollam, IN
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Apr 06, 2008 7:43 am EDT

I'm also a victim of the cheating of idea cellular.i had activated idea gprs plan which costs Rs. 5 per day. But after some months they have been charging me more then 5 per day. That is they are taking Rs.5 more than one time in a day.Nowadays it has become a daily phenomenon.Sometimes they takes the cash when i am connected to the net and suddenly the connection will be disconnected and a message will show like this "connection closed by the network".And after that when i check my balance it will be reduced.They are claiming that their service is unlimited for just Rs.5 per day.
Even if the bandwidth is applicable, definitely that is not the problem.They are also taking a few paisas like 50, 30, 20, 5 when i'm browsing.This shows that they are like beggars.When i complained that in their customer care center they said that they will repay me and the problem is because of some computer failures.But i think they are crazy. They didn't repay me till this time.

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Sandeep Gupta
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Aug 31, 2007 11:50 pm EDT

I Also cheated by IDEA Cellular. They have activated my M Radio subscription without my consent and deducted Rs. 100.

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Narender Singh
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Jul 27, 2007 4:25 am EDT

One day I receive a call from idea customer care and they explain me a new 998 plan. I have already use airtel post paid number since last 5 years. But I told him (idea customer care) that if they give me the my choice number then I will take the connection. Idea customer care also agreed with me. They told me that they provide me first five digits and I can choose last any 5 digits, but no repeat the same number 5 times. It’s ok and the same day they provide me the 99900 series and I choose the remaining last 5 digits 00009. So my whole number is now [protected]. I also confirmed with the customer care and they told me this number is available and tomorrow will activate it. So I paid the 998 amounts to the idea.

On the next day another call receive from the idea. They told me this number is paid and you should pay Rs. 500 Extra. I denied because yesterday you did not tell me about this. They told me ok we would call u after some minutes. Again another call comes from idea. Now the new story is this that the slot of this series does not open, so please choose another number. I told him, ok I will we wait for open this slot. After 2-3 hours they again call me that they have provide this number to any body so did not able to provide this number to me. I was shocked. I think the internal process of the idea company is very poor and worst.

5 days spent but they did not refund my money.

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Idea Cellular Unwanted calls and sms!

Daily i am getting unwanted calls or sms when i am busy from company for marketing their product. I am facing the problem for last 5 months.

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ashish katiyar
Ahmedabad, IN
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May 08, 2008 5:56 am EDT

i parchase a traffi of 49rs but it can not charge in my number my number is [protected]. and not any one help me .

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vaibhav.ghadshi
IN
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Oct 18, 2011 5:54 am EDT

hiiii...i am vaibhav iam using idea sim no but i am getting very unwanted call and sms can you please give me the solution about this...

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RITA QURESHI
IN
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Jun 27, 2011 7:54 am EDT

iam getting very unwanted calls in my idea cellular i want that this no should be blocked or else it will eat me up my mother also getting unwanted calls the no is43820946797 THIS NO COMES EVERYDAY AT 12 O CILOCK OR AT 1 O CLOCK IN MY MOTHERS CELL OR IN MY CELL PLZ HELP ME SIR IAM NOT GETTING THE SOLUTION

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pavanhd
IN
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May 29, 2011 8:26 am EDT
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Dear Sir,

I am a Idea cell phone user my number is ([protected]) last three years from now
I am receiving simony unwanted phone call and massages (advertisements)
I am totally disturbed from this type of calls and sms
Please stop this kind of calls and messages.

Thanks
mobile no.[protected]
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MD KARIMULLA MUZAKKAR
IN
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Sep 25, 2008 2:31 am EDT

DEAR ALL, I ALWAYS HAVE A CALL ABOUT THE CALLERTUNES AND SPECIAL OFFERS.I DONT WANT ANY CALL SUCH TYPE AND I DONT WANT ANY SMS FROM IDEA ALSO.

KINDLY DONT GET ME SUCH TYPE OF THINGS TO MY MOBILE AS EVERY CALL TO MY MOBILE IS VERY IMPORTANT AND TENSION FUL.

SO, PLEASE KINDLY DONT SEND ME THAT TYPE CALLS AND SMS.

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Idea Cellular Fraudulent postpaid bills

When i got the connection which terms and conditions for the postpaid scheme there executive tell me and write on customer agreement form all those conditions was not obeyed by idea cellular. And they sent a very high value bill for me but this amount is not as per terms and conditions. I also deposited the security amount rs 500.00. Now i got many calls from idea cellular ltd for payment of bills. Then i told the all terms and conditions for the connections. After that i got a call from idea executive he warned me to kill me if i am not paying the bill. Please solve the problem as soon possible.

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pvnkc
Hyderabad, IN
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Apr 11, 2012 8:51 pm EDT

money istam vachinattu cut chestunnaru complaint iste complaint tesukovatam ledu danivalla customers ki loss plz closing the companey and telecord news channel and news paper and monjumur court lo case veyandi k urgent

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Divya26
Gurugram, IN
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Sep 17, 2009 1:06 am EDT

Firstly the website is not working.
Network is so bad that there are only 1-2 signal at work as well as at home, complaints have been done so many times.
I am using this connection from 2002.
My No is [protected].
Still its trying to improve but very slow n no results are seen.
Please improve the network problem else I have to change the service provider.

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Goverdiner
Garden Grove, US
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Jul 26, 2010 10:46 am EDT

They have charged excessive amount in my Aug bill. In the bill details my own. is mentioned which means that i have called to my no. from my no. which is really shocking.

There are so many no. metioned which is charged but no details is given. I have complained lot of times but nothing happened.

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naval singh
IN
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Mar 02, 2015 5:45 am EST
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RE: SR# C1-[protected] Submitted
naval singh 17:08PM
To: IdeaCustomerService@idea.adityabirla.com
hi
I am very much frustrated to tell now that it has been around 5 weeks for me to make a request for porting my no. [protected] and these Vodafone people have not processed it yet and I don;t know the reason why. Infact the day I made the request I received a confirmation text from their side that it has been received still they are doing such shameful things.I just want my no to be ported as soon as possible.

pleas cancel my agreement form & accept my port out request .

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ideacellular
Pune, IN
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Apr 15, 2012 6:01 pm EDT
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Dear Sir,

We regret the inconvenience caused to you. May we request you to reply to us with your complete account details such as Full name, mobile no., and the type of Inconvenience you are facing. Also mention the token ID 205IC190744 in the subject.

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ganesh Ingle
US
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Apr 18, 2011 9:42 pm EDT

Hi All,
please dont go for the IDEA postapaid connection, four months back i have took the CUG connection from IDEA but after using one Month I got call from IDEA call center saying that, "currently we are giving you special offer on your sim as you are the selected customer and offer was they giving me 75 RS discount on evrymonths bill" but they didnt informed me that i have to pay 450RS in first month to get this offer activated, anyway they took RS 450 from My account but from that time still now i didnt recive single rupesse of discount.also in first two months i used GPRS in mobile to check the Orkut and all two three times only but in That months bill cames is RS 1180 for one month usage i was got shoked to see the bill but then also i didnt compalined any where i paid the bill, so i got deactivated the GPRS service from IDEA last month also i didint make single call in last month i avoided to use mobile, now today i got the bill and got surprrised again the bill amount is RS 400 where i was expecting it to come aroud RS 80, so dont go for the IDEA as they are making fake bills also Now i am going to stop IDEA SIM.

aging Plz dont go for the IDEA.

Regards,
Ganesh

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civilrights
GB
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Apr 14, 2011 5:26 am EDT

Last week I purchased Idea cellular card, while purchasing the card I had been submitted the document to the agent and after two three days I got the message to submit the document i.e. address proof and the Photo ID card etc.
When I visited to nearest idea centre at Shivajinagar Pune for the submission of the document and asked them to give the receipt for the submission of my document or give the signature and stamp on photocopy of the submitted document they did refused.
Several times I contacted to the idea customer care by telephone every time they told me there is no as such rule we are not able to give the receipt or any proof of submission of the document. Idea cellular is not taking any responsibility for those document due to which customer find inconvenience. If the document is not received to them they will close the idea cellular number and again they will ask for the document.

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Champak Bhumia
IN
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Jul 24, 2010 8:05 am EDT

use mts gprs services... best one... have tried and never failed me...

also idea cellular also did not prove too good for me. Just yesterday someone from the collections department tried fruadulently calling my home to recover my number.

change the number after extra usage... that's the best way idea can be [censor]ed...

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Saurabh Mehta
IN
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Dec 17, 2009 11:04 pm EST

I have taken a postpaid no [protected].I paid the first bill for the oct- nov period.In december I got 2nd bill for the period nov-dec.In this second bill company has wronglly mention advance charges for web access mail.They are giving me resolution that they charged if they charged then why they didn't charged in first bill, If they have any thing to charge they will tell us in advance. but they didn't tell.This seems a clear fraud intention by Idea.This way they can make lots of money.Pls take a serious action to stop these kinds of fraud and protect customer from these kind of cheating.

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abcd
US
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Apr 21, 2009 2:23 am EDT

i got a recycled number and somone from 91-22-[protected] is constantly harassing me.
please block this number.

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Idea Cellular Poor customer care service

I am using a mobile phone for which IDEA is the service provider, i have been using this for past 3 years. Now a days some messages are coming for submitting the documents (address proof, photo ID) i had submitted these documents when i purchased the SIM card itself. Anyway when i went last day to again submit the documents to retailer shop none of them are accepting them saying that we need to submit them in head office, located far away. How come this is possible. The funniest part is i had seen a Idea helpline number at one of the retailer shop and called that number, and surprisingly the number is a personnel phone number of some person ... this clearly shows how the idea is taking care of customers ... forget about the customer care... it never connects...

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maamekal
IN
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Nov 20, 2018 4:30 am EST

it is so expensive

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Arvind pal
Pune, IN
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Oct 28, 2018 9:33 am EDT

After submitting proper valid information and documents my nano sim is still not activated after two days... I called up at Customercare centre and came to know that my verification of documents is done and request has been cancelled... but no one bothered to inform me. My documents were authentic and valid I really don't know what went wrong.

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patil samadhan
IN
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Oct 23, 2018 5:33 am EDT

Dear sir /mam

i tray to contact with idea costumer care, but hi dot't response,
my active plan @349 but hi charged extra 1100+of vas service

why active this service without my permission, i tray to discuss with costumer care but hi don't pickup my call

Please solution

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manisha
IN
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Nov 30, 2008 2:06 am EST

i have lost my cell phoneon tuesday 25 november, 2008 between 2:30 to 3:30 and want to disconnect my no. immediately. the no is [protected], this is request please disconnect my nuber as early as possible, so that anybody will not be able to use my cellphone...plz take the necessary and immediate action i will b highly grateful to u...

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Shruti Panwar
Mumbai, IN
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Nov 08, 2008 4:02 am EST

I have never come across such a worst customer services in my life. Fews days back i informed Idea executives that i want to disconnect my miscall alert service, i informed them before the time of activation i.e on 1 Nov. 2008 (around 12.00pm) NANCY attend my call n give me the confirmation that my miscall alert service will definatly got disconnected n no balance will be deducted.

But on the contrary on 2 Nov. 2008 (around 10.30 pm ) i received a message from their services that my this service has been renewed n balance has been deducted.
I again call to their services why this happened n SANDEEP attended my call n said due to technical problem my balance got deducted n advised me to call next morning after 10 am .

According to his advice i called them after 10 am, but these people again n again put on hold as according to them they were transferring my cal to their Sr. executive but no respond was there after been on hold for last 25 mins. These executives do'nt even bother whether their call has been picked up from their respective Sr. executive.

Lastly when i called them at nite my call got transferred to their Sr. executive KRISHANA again an incompetent executive, did not help me but promised me that by next morning i'll receive a call from their service regard the same.

Next morning i received a call n a girl promised me that my balance will be refunded within 48 Hrs but i am not refunded till now and this service of miscall alert is still on.

Helpless customer n incompetent executive of IDEA care.

Really this ### service has changed my LIFE.

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vidya
Amravati, IN
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Oct 19, 2008 3:06 am EDT

Dear sir,
my mobile in daily DP2 pack please deactivated for you.
ima very worried please any action for you.

my mobile no. [protected]

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Maureen
PH
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Oct 05, 2008 3:25 am EDT

I write to inquire about roaming charges. When I was in Mumbai, India, I bought an IDEA SIM ([protected]). I am back in the Philippines and I had reloaded on my Idea thru a friend. I would appreciate it very much if you can provide me information on your charges:
a) international outgoing calls
b) international incoming calls
c) international outgoing text message
d) international incoming test message
I would highly appreciate an immediate reply on my query above.

Thank you and more power.

Maureen Herber

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sunil kumar
Kolkata, IN
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Sep 28, 2008 11:11 pm EDT

i ve lost my cell phone today and want to disconnect my no. imm. the no is [protected], this is request to you please disconnect it asap, for that misuse of no cud not possible

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