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Airtel customer care sucks! Airtel is useless. They don't respect their customers. Airtel is really bad. I was an airtel pre-paid user. Airtel guys called me a lot of times to get a post-paid connection. After a few days, I decided to go with their best scheme in post-paid with the highest rental plan.

It was called india-roam 399 plan. The airtel guys came to my office to collect the deposit and required documents. After a few days again there were a couple of guys from airtel there at my office for address verification. Everything went well. They promised to get my phone working in 4 working days and finally these guys managed to get it working in 8 working days.

After around 10 days, when I wanted to go to some other state, maharashtra to be precise, I called up airtel to check my roaming status and they said, it was on hold as the address verification was not done. I was shocked to here as the address had been verified a long time back. They registered a complaint for that which was stupidity.

I had told them my concern. I was going out of bangalore for 15 days after that. I wanted my phone working.

My roaming was not activated. I was without phone for 2 days. Then they activated my phone only for incoming calls. I registered a couple of complaints again after that. For all of them, they changed the status to "closed". Then again I get another shock of my life. They inactivate my sim. All incoming and outgoing calls are blocked. I had requested in my complaints for a call back from a manager. No calls! And my cell phone is not working. The customer care doesn't register my complaint. My phone is still not working for 10 days now. Number - [protected].

Airtel customer care sucks. They treat customers as dirt.

Suggestion for new guys: avoid airtel. Your phone wont work when you want it the most.

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Leeladhar
Oct 17, 2006 8:58 am EDT

Recently i had worst experience at your so called well equipped call centres. They render to be redundant. You just spend money for service which which they are worth not it. I request u to close those useless rc in dombivili mumbai.

My experience:

I was having airtel postpaid card: for above mentioned no. I wanted it to convert to prepaid. So i visited dombivili rc (tilak telecom). For the same. The interaction which should complete in exactly 5 mins. Has been taking place for last 4 weks. They asked to fill a prepaid form asking for conversion of plan. I have completed the form details.and have given necessary credentials by which they are satisfied. And have chosen a plan (yearly plan) i have paid 3449/- against new sim and refill (bill no:18623 dombivili rc dated 7-10-06). So they promised me my service will get active in 48 hrs. Ok satisfied.

First instance incompetency from airtel:
Some one calls at my different alternate no ; [protected] tells there is a pending of some amount against my postpaid for which i have to go again to rc to clear the same

Second instance incompetency from airtel:
I have called postpaid customer care to confirm and request some alternative to for payment like deduction from amount which was due from airtel which was supposed to transfer to prepaid or deduct from prepaid account. They said they cant do it. I have to visit rc. I would like ask,can't rc people check any bills pending at the time of transfer of account. If there is any delay in system upgradation cant there be provision for automatic deduction of amount from some other source from which customer has requested. Thereby saving customer valuable time.

Third instance incompetency from airtel:
I have visited airtel rc next day. The people at rc were busy attending personnal calls on their mobiles, having long lunches, going to wash room after every customer interaction. I have asked to wait for my turn which took long 2 hrs. After which the person jayna checked the system status and said since my case was previously handled by bhavna since she is on weekly leave i have to come on some other day. She has no access to her cases. This seems pitiful where there is no acces to customer records for your own personnel. And worst part i got this infy after 2 hrs of long waiting taking leave from office. So pityfull.

Fourth instance incompetency from airtel:
I again visited airtel rc next day with lots of hopes. The people at rc as usual were busy attending personal calls on their mobiles, having long lunches, going to wash room after every customer interaction. Luckily that female bhavna who has taken my case was present. I was asked to wait for two hrs. Then my turn came she invited me one long false smile she said there is balance of rs 114/- which i have paid immediately. But your cashier chetna was busy calling her some dear one she was busy next 15 min. Then she has taken.and promised my servive will get activated in 4 hrs. I thought my struggle is over. After 12 hrs my service got activated. But this time with no balance so i cant make any calls nor receive them. Customer care to visit again rc and 2 hrs for your turn since he cant do anything

I would like to ask if you cant resolve customer query in single shot when u have got best technology. Your service is worst than public sector bank which is near by which are rated worst for their customer orientation. The service of unqualified rustic person in public bank service is hundred times better than your well qualified service person. Even traffic police who caughts u for breaking laws solves matter in 2 mins by taking some bribe. U were worst than that.

Today i am visiting again rc. For fourth time hope, i case gets solved

I would like u to return my entire money today if u cant provide me simple service which u have promised, i will take all my money and take service from other service provider. No problem thereafter i would request all friends not to approach so friendly customer friendly servive. "you cant express yourself to your customer needs so u have no right to keep punchline "express youself"".

Also i would like u to close your dombivili rc and all its member jayna, bhavna, chetna to be fired who are so incompetent who after sufficient exp discuss discuss what action to be taken in a particular case in every case.

Lastly i dont want "beauties with no brains" to sit to assist me in customer care i want simple people who can understand what customer might need next and suggest course of action befores customer realizes he is in deep pit. Technology must assist people but should not be problem. The office boy at dombivili rc is far better than your staff ateast he solves some problems from his side so as to reduce burden.

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Snidon Alvito Mascarenhas
Oct 27, 2006 8:16 pm EDT

For the past 3 months I'm having problems regarding the networks so much so dat i dont get networks in my residence.I'm into marketing n due too d bad service I'm loosing many of my clients. I called several times @ ur customers service in Pune but i dont get any feed bak nor anybody is ready 2 give a conformation as 2 wen d networks r going 2 b fine. I'm really screwed about all thats happening. This problem is in south Goa in a taluka datz Sanvordem / Sanguem. I got a friend who's into this sim card business n he was telling me dat there r many people who switched on 2 other netwrks like idea n hutch. I was in mumbai n also in calcutta n i liked the airtel networks o're there but sorry 2 say networks of airtel in Goa r ###ed n its all bcoz of the poor customer service centers ur'll have.

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Allaka Praveen
Nov 14, 2006 9:42 am EST

I am subscribe the offer of 49 paise A2A in aug. But after that i have given so many request to deactivate that offer as iam not able to avail other offers. well every time when i used call the customer care they used to tell me that next day it will be deactivated, but it never happened.after 15 to 20 calls. i have made customer care people to pass this call to higher authorities. After talking to them, he told that changing from that plan is not possible. and you have to be in this offer only as there is some problem in there technical side. Till know they are just fooling the public. They are cheating and i want everybody to know well about before availing any offer... if someone can help me regarding this please contact me...

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Sheetal
Nov 14, 2006 2:27 pm EST

My name is Sheetal Rane, I have taken a Post paid connection in Airtel Bangalore. I visited to Airtel Banarkatta (Bangalore) office to make the payment and to request to keep my number in custody for 3 months Since I was going out of India. I have made the payment of 6000 rs included bill and custody charges for three months.

The executive gave me a receipt but asked me to call and confirm after two days. Since I was not in India to call customer care he gave me his name and number. From Canada I called him, in first call he told me that he have not paid the bill and recollect the payment after coming to India. After coming to India I am calling him, but now he is disconnecting my all calls.

I have registered this complaint in Airtel, they are not taking an action since that guy is Airtel executive .

I lost my 5900 rs. I have discussed in my network, I found many people who got cheated by Aitel in different way. Many people are crying because of these cheats.

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Prakruthi ram. T
Nov 27, 2006 7:32 am EST

Sub: Airtel Hero Honda Handset Bundle promotion regarding:-

I have purchased Hero Honda Pleasure on [protected] with Engine No. 06G1AM03546, Chassis No. 06G1AM03541 from Majestic Mobikes (P) Ltd., Majestic Plaza, No.125, R.V.Road, Bangalore-560004.and Selling dealer code 10108, Phone No. [protected]-30 and TIN [protected], dated 1-4-2005, CST No. [protected] dated [protected], under the Sub dealer Indian Motors, Yelahanka, Bangalore.

In purchasing offer we received Motorola Cell phone with Airtel Sim along with Rs. 2,000/- talk time free and 1,000 free SMSs with one year validity. From past 20 days I tried to activate the cell phone, with all enquiries with Hero honda dealers and Airtel Office I could not Activate the cell phone. I enquired Airtel Office, 1st Block Rajajinagar, near Navrang Theatre. At first they told you should recharge and it will be activated but after recharging (Spending Rs. 210/-) it showed only balance amount and validity period. But I am not getting the benefits in Motorola C117 Handset. Airtel Prepaid SIM with Rs25 Talk Time, 2000 minutes Airtel to Airtel Local valid for 12 months 1000 Local Airtel to Airtel SMS valid for 3 months Free Hello Tunes subscription for 1 month with Hero Honda Tune. Then again I enquired in the above said Airtel Office, then they contacted Airtel Call centre, then they told that Hero Honda Office in Bangalore has to clarify in this regard and Hero Honda ,Motorola and Airtel Companies MoU is not clearly known to us and therefore they asked contact your Office.

Details of the Handset given to me as purchase offer is as follows:
The Airtel Mobile No. [protected],
SIM No. [protected],
Hand set Model Motorola C117.

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Irfan Patel
Dec 05, 2006 2:45 pm EST

I had received a message from Airtel of 1Month validity on recharge of Rs 250/- & talktime of 123. But after recharge i had notice that the validity period is of only 15 days. This is what Airtel has offered me. Cheaters!

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Hemangi
Dec 18, 2006 2:10 pm EST

Sub: airtel cheats/deduct roaming charge without any utilization.

Hi friends,

Last saturday we went for picnic at hoggenakkal at tamilnadu.that time there was no coverage from airtel.
And i didnt even made a single call or received a single call,even though airtel ppl deducted 25 rs as roaming charge from my prepaid account.
I traveled maharashtra before this but they never deducted any such amount.when called to airtel cc they are not responding properly.this is clear cheating !
And there is not place to escalate this issue.
So anyone using airtel and going to any other state for one day,please switch off your cells and dont use the airtell service else you will be cheated by airtell ppl like me.

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mukhtar
Dec 20, 2006 9:53 am EST

I am customer Airtel But i am very sad to buy airtel sim card. I have bought before 3 month. I recharged in this month date : 18-12-2006 200Rs. & 333 Rs. topup. I called every where to my friend but after one hour my mobile barred (incoming & outgoing are closed) when i went to airtel office (jamshedpur) they said to me that your address proof didn't submit in main airtel office so your line disconnected when as i have submitted already my documents to retailer shop. Now I am harassment in this time I have submitted again never the less my service is disconnected. Please I am requested to Airtel office Manger Please Sir On My Service I will be obliged to you.

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Sivakrishna Ch
Jan 04, 2007 4:03 am EST

Airtel Cunningam Road Branch in Bangalore really sucks in service...I think its better to close the service in that branch. I had raised 4 requests so far. Not even a single request had been cleared. Don't know what the people do inside the office through out the day. I have raised so many complaints against them. But no use...Frustrated in life ...

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Nikhil Thakur
Jan 19, 2007 4:09 am EST

Please someone tel me how to sue these guys or anyway we can file a PIL?

I too have issues with Airtel and I'm really frustrated.

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Bishwajit Saha
Mar 10, 2007 1:56 pm EST

I am an corporate employee and took a post paid connection pack from airtel agent mr. sam. he said office verification is enough for me. so i gave rs 500 as deposit and all the official documents along with my photo id card of my company. within 2 days my connection was activated. but since my connection airtel could not complete my verification. i lodged so many complaint regarding this. whenever i call the customer care they says we are helpless. what they do is, they close the earlier call and open a new request immediately. and keep on hold for another 7 days. So till now no verification has been done from airtel end. now after harassing so many times i am feeling helpless too. I found these customer care girls/boys are good for nothing. Specially the last customer care lady.

Now my incoming and outgoing calls are barred. Even registration has been cancelled too without giving any notification.Therefore, under this circumstances I am throwing airtel seem card and has no other option other than taking a new connection sim from HUTCH.

Also I took broadband connection from airtel & verification and connection has been over within 3 days. But airtel post paid section is not able to complete the verification. If that is the way of service airtel is going to give then i strongly believe that airtel will lose so many prospective customer like me.

Lastly, I want to say that if they continue this approach, then I am sure that so many customer will leave this connection like me. At least I will not going to recommend to anybody for asking airtel as post paid connection.

If it is not solved within saturday then I am going to take a new connection from hutch on sunday.

Thanks you very much for your bad behavior.

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Shalet C
Mar 26, 2007 11:38 pm EDT

I am Shalet & an Airtel Prepaid Customer. My concern is few days back I had got a message from the Airtel stating that if I recharge for Rs.360/- I would get the full talk time. The message goes exactly like this:

"No processing fee! Recharge with Rs. 360/ above & get FULL talktime (excluding service tax of 12.24%). The talktime will be credited IMMEDIATELY after recharge."

I had received the message on 9th of March. I recharged for Rs.360/- on 10th of March. I was not aware of the fact that they are going to withdraw the offer on 9th of March itself. They have sent me such similar messages in the past also. But with clear information of the last date to recharge.

Since I recharged it on 10th, I have received only Rs.167/- I have been interacting with the AIRTEL customer care executives from 10th onwards. They just kept registering my complaint, but nothing happened. Later when I asked for their senior person to talk to, the matter was escalated to the supervisor by the name Ms. Anuradha. She promised me that by 20th of March I will get my full money back. After that when I called her she asked me to visit their airtel office & show them the message. I did that also. But nothing happened on that here also. Today, when I called the customer care, I got the call transferred to Mr. Chayaprakash, unit manager who does not even have the manners to speak to the customer, said that at any cost i will not get my money back.

Though Rs. 150 which i lost is not a big amount, I am concerned about AIRTEL cheating their customers in this way.

Since I have no time to run behind the consumer courts etc. I have decided to persuade each & every Airtel customer whom I know to switch to HUTCH or other connections.

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Mosquitoes Bitten Passenger
May 05, 2007 4:48 am EDT

Good that you are raising your voice against misconduct that will surely help many. But posting here will not suffice your ultimate goal should be to bring it to notice of regulatory bodies and have them take relevant action. So in addition to posting your complaint here do mail them to:
trai@del2.vsnl.net.in

and follow up. Things will work.

Lets make india better.

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Mosquitoes Bitten Passenger
May 05, 2007 4:51 am EDT

Guys you have done a great job by putting your complaints here. At least it will stop some customers from opting airtel.

I am on airtel for more than a 3 years. Oflate i have been roaming a lot so did not have enough time to pay my bills so abruptly my outgoing was cut. I have no problems with cutting my outgoing calls, my problem is why not they informed me. It seems airtel people are a bunch of shy guys :)

Now i am raising a complaint with TRAI for airtel's behavior. You also can

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Thiyagu
May 05, 2007 7:25 am EDT

I have applied for a PCO Coin box and I feel that I have been cheated. He has collected Rs.1350/- and he hasn't given any instrument for that. Customer Service Persons told that he must give an instrument and Rs.1350/- is a wrong payment. it should have to be lesser than that.

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L.Vinod
May 31, 2007 4:39 am EDT

I am an airtel customer for last 4 years. My number is [protected]. Somehow i am not satisfied with their service. First they promised variety of services for which i took one more connection. Now i am really repenting. I face problems whenever i go roaming to Chennai etc., I have problems in their billing also and discussed with customer care people. They people not respond properly.

THEY REALLY SUCK! AIRTEL IS USELESS.

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Sundeep T
Jun 05, 2007 3:57 am EDT

Airtel bangalore cunningham road sucks, Airtel Hyderabad Ameerpet office sucks, and i guess the case with most Airtel direct customer care(less) offices. They dont give a rats a## for customers problems. I got Airtel prepaid card from Cunningham road on a friday and they promised it would be activated that evening. But it didnt get activated that night and when i went to meet them on saturday they gave lame excuse saying the cell phone for activation is locked and they dont have the key. I dont know why they are open on saturdays. The cell phone was activated on monday that also when i went and reminded in the evening.
Everytime you go toe customer support centre they say server is done, its common across all airtel outlets. Its useless to go there, so i went to a retail outlet and get my prepaid card charged. I was so frustrated by them that now i have shifted to Hutch connection. Airtel is USELESS when it comes to customer support.

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vinay
Jun 08, 2007 11:56 pm EDT

Airtel India-One plan sucks. They deactivate the service due to some technical problem on their side and they would let the customer suffer. This happened three times to me and I have been with them for less than a month.

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Siva Pavan
Jun 11, 2007 5:23 am EDT

Not only Airtel, we have too many problems with the Service Providers in India. Even I had a similar experience with Hutch. Its high time that TRAI enters the scenario and have some regulations set for customer service, these things are ridiculous and people should not waste their whole day in a stupid thing like mobile connection problem. Airtel is now the largest among the service providers, and they have to realize they can be the smallest if everyone feels bad about the service. Even now days the coverage in the main areas like banjara Hills is getting a lot of disturbance. Airtel has to solve these small but really decisive issues for them. The customer care of any of the Service Provider is not that great, but if we take the worst ones, Airtel would be the first one to mention about.

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B.M. Das Agarwal
Jun 26, 2007 10:46 pm EDT

I am having the received copy application and legal notice which i have given to airtel Dealer at Etawah for surrender of my sim card and refund of my security. The application which was received was dated 8.1.2007, but till today my security is not refunded.

B.M. Das Agarwal
8,kothi old city

Etawah.

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BALAJI SINGH
Jun 27, 2007 6:56 am EDT

Hi,

I am working at chennai in an MNC where i had taken up Airtel Postpaid Connection. And iam using this from past two years. The problem what i faced is some thing very strange and typical which was not solved yet till now.

The problem is i received frequent messages from Airtel Live. The Sample mesg what i received is below:

" Thanks for using Airtel Live presenting Bollywood Movies , World Music Zone, Win Ronaldo T-shirts ,log on to internet and many more all on Airtel Live . " This Promotional seems to be nothing when it is sent once in a while , but then i received this mes at least 8 -10 messages per minute.

And due to this my Inbox got fully flooded by this mesg`s. And it accounted for 2800 mesg`s yet till now. Just imagine i received this mesg`s during the work hours and every time i have check in into my inbox and see whether it received mesg is important or not.

Why because i will receive mesg`s from my team members. And as it is known that silence should be maintained in the development work area. And they had sent these messages during night also which is very mind blocking , hoping so for an important mesg that i receive from my team member , after seeing that it will be from airtel live, DAM ###.

I had raised so many complaints / or requests to Airtel Customer care Might be around 15 times , but still their was no effect. I spoke to Mr.Robin, Mr.Ravi, Manju, Divya... etc and many more and i have also spoken to senior executives of Airtel Mr. mahendran , Mr.Saravan regarding this, but nothing of use. They told just give me 24 or 48 hrs , i will definitely solve ur problem and surely u will not receive any messages from Airtel Live.

And at last only when i felt that my problems are not still solved then i felt like filling an complaint against Airtel.

And My Contact Number is [protected].

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Shashidhar R
Jun 29, 2007 8:04 pm EDT

I have lost my mobile 3 weeks back and i got a duplicate sim card from the airtel office (whitehouse, beside lifestyle building, begumpet, hyderabad). I was informed by the executive that the sim card will be activated in 2 or 3 hours. Though, the sim card status is currently active, I am not receiving any Incoming calls on my mobile (though i have tried the same sim card on other mobiles) whereas I am able to make any outgoing calls very comfortably.

I have raised this concern to at least 7 to 8 customer executives (i am still following it up and it's now more than 2 weeks they are still looking into this problem to get it resolved) @ 121 and everybody told me the same thing that there is some technical problem with the incoming calls server.

I was on the impression that airtel usually get the things resolved in not more than 72 working hours... but it is more than 2 weeks now that is really a POOR SERVICE.

None of the customer service executives even bother to call and tell me that they are looking into this issue though i have provided few alternate numbers to reach me(most of the customer service executives told me that they will call back immediately and none of them called up). It's only me always to call and follow up the issue.

This shows the poor service that airtel provides to the customers.

It would be a great help if someone can either respond to this email or get the issue resolved ASAP.

Regards,

R Shashidhar
Hyderabad.

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Dentist
Jul 09, 2007 11:25 am EDT

Whatever happened to the airtel customer care personnel? The option doesn't seem to be there any more on Airtel prepaid! Is there any way by which we can get connected to an airtel personnel?

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Althaf Sheriff
Jul 09, 2007 11:43 pm EDT

I have faced a similar concern with Airtel Office. This was some time ago while I was in Bangalore and had a postpaid connection with Airtel. Firstly, the connection is not good by any standards and does not deliver what was promised. Secondly, Airtel disconnects the connection from time to time and I raised that their was a direct relation between the blackouts and the time spent online. As you try and stay online longer, the blackouts become more frequent.

Now, after a year of being in the US I just returned to my native in Kochi, Kerala. I am here for 3 months and decided to take a prepaid connection and activate the Airtel Office so as to have internet access on my laptop while I am on the move. Firstly, no one at their call centerseemed to know how it works. I was not able to get information as to how to activate it, whether I must buy the recharge coupon and charge it to my phone first or should I wait for them to send the settings to my phone. This went on for three days and a person made me wait untill 11:30 pm so that I receive and save the settings to my phone. I then called and asked to be transfered to someone with more knowldge of GPRS. The concerned person then asked me to charge my phone with the GPRS coupon and that the settings will be sent to me with in 48 Hrs. Now it's been four days and I am still waiting for the settings and so that I can be online.

My sister uses my previous connection with Airtel (6 yrs old) which is a corporate connection. This month while I was in Bangalore, I made the payment of Rs.1300 by cash for the bill amount of Rs.1234. When I received the printout of the payment received slip, it read, "Payment received with thanks from" and my name in print (all bold). I was in a hurry and was happy that I got most of my work done on that day. A week latter my sister calls me and tells me that representatives from Airtel are calling to ask her to make the payment. They say that I have not made the payment and that they will require the slip to confirm. Now, I do not have the slip ith me, this is a mistake on my part but the fact that this is happened to me thrice in the last two years is a matter of concern and I believe that all consumers with Airlet postpaid accounts must be warned of the concern.

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C KUMARAN
Jul 28, 2007 6:21 am EDT

My mobile number is [protected] and i have seen that an amount of Rs.25/= is being debited being the near and dear charges connecting to one land line which I have surrendered one and a half year back to MTNL. That particular number was allotted to some body els by the MTNL. I have not activated the option as claimed by the Call center Employee. When I called 121, today the concerned person has denied to reverse the amount and even he was not ready to pass on the message to his higher authorities.

C KUMARAN
Mumabi
24/07/2007.

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Rameshwar Motilal Jain
Aug 01, 2007 1:03 am EDT

Somebody has recharged a top up of Rs 222 by mistake in my mobile ([protected]) and taken the money from me but now my A/c has been debited.

Beware!

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Dr R Bong
Aug 02, 2007 6:27 am EDT

I am a retired Fortune 500 CEO and I have just set up a business in Bangalore with the intention of bringing overseas investments to India. When I called the Airtel helpline [protected] and explained to the helpdesk that I needed a mobile. The first helpdesk asked me to give her my contact and gave her my overseas mobile number. She told me that their executive would not call me if it was an overseas number (Had I got a local number I would have needed to call her right).

I then set up my office with my fixed line and again I called Airtel. This time the helpdesk did accept my local fixed line and told me that some executive would call me back within an hour. I waited for three hours and nothing happened. So I called Airtel again and another helpdesk told me that to wait for another hour. That was when I explained to him that I had been waiting for three hours and it was after office hour and I could not just wait there forever not knowing if this time some executive would really call. He repeated the same in an absolute disinterested tone and when I told him that it was not acceptable, he decided to hang up on me.

Now, this is Airtel Customer Service.

To all Airtel executives (the real ones, in my country these are the corporate officers not the one who did not call me), you are not doing Airtel a service and worst of all, your country which I happen to respect a lot. Please do something about it.

Dr R Bong

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Jule
Aug 13, 2007 1:56 am EDT

I am an Airtel customer. I am frustrated with their service. There is frequent disconnection and no action is taken to solve this problem. I dont understand why do they have a customer service when they doesn't know the actual sense of service. I feel irritated when I come across their ad with false promises.

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vijay verma
Sep 06, 2007 10:47 am EDT

I think like other disappointed persons. I think there is no co-ordination at all in any step in Airtel. I have charged with RS. 25/- on account of Giving me Services of Chat & mail which is a service provided under Airtel Live although the amount was deducted as soon as had pressed the button but i had never been able to avail that service ever. Furthere more having been inquired about the same different type of answers were given to me by the customer care executives. At the 10/12 time when i asked the customer care the then executive told me that the deduction of Rs. 25/- was done on account of some caller tune khajana. I never understand the fact that either all the executives to whom i call prior to this call were foolish or he was foolish. But one thing is clear, either u have taken a prepaid connection or postpaid connection u have to rely on the mercy of the Airtel because to take an airtel connection it means all the doors were closed for u. Further all the persons are bound to carry on with their connections because of the number only nothing else. I don't understand one thing these companies including Airtel spent crores of ruppess in advertisement and promotions but when there is a need to compensate with their customers there are not listing them this is really bad.

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Prasad
Oct 08, 2007 11:27 pm EDT

Airtel customer care executives are national wastes. Please don't rely this company.

I have taken a corporate post paid 199 scheme and they charged the amount which is applicable to 299 scheme. There is no clip charge for this scheme, even then they levied this amount also.

After my complaints for several time through mails and phone call they deducted some amount and without giving the restructured bill they debited the amount from my bank a/c. They all are dumps, they are timepassing there in the office.

So please dont go for Airtel connection, they will definitely screw you!

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SIRAZ
Oct 17, 2007 11:36 pm EDT

I think AIRTEL & its customer services is bad unless you use VODAPHONE / HUTCH connect.

I can guarantee once u use VODAPHONE / HUTCH connection, there after U would 10000% say that AIRTEL is much much much better than VODAPHONE / HUTCH.

VODAPHONE / HUTCH is a real ### whole in terms of Network, customer service & commitment. Experience the difference using vodaphone for a day at least, then u will say AIRTEL is BEST.

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sultan
Oct 17, 2007 11:58 pm EDT

Give me Airtel live settings phone number [protected].

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Ravindra
Oct 27, 2007 2:01 am EDT

I had a horrible experience with Airtel one of the worst services I ever received and customer delaying is pathetic. I have no better worse words to use for this company being Service Industry. I wanted to cancel the CUG connection no one responded when i escalated I get a reply saying to do what ever I wish then I get a bill of some 1000/- for the connection I cancelled. The collection manger who met me promised to take care of my bills but he was also a pain in_. I would request each of you who read this message to pass to your friends thru Orkut or any other way to not to enroll in Airtel.

What I went thru I wish no one should go thru that so be careful all the post paid people and pass this msg to get rid of Airtel.

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JITENDRA S. PACHGHARE
Nov 08, 2007 12:16 am EST

Please tell me mms service!

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edwin peterson
Dec 04, 2007 2:06 am EST

i bought the airtel postpaid connection one month back(1-nov-2007). so one month is completed. i have shifted my residence due office issue. but the airtel bill went to my old address.
so i dont know the bill details then i made a call with CC.
they are asking password(not aware). i told them to know the bill details. even though priya(C C Rep) and prathiba answered wrongly and treat me very bad manner. they deactivate my phone now(4-dec-2007).

please avoid to get a connection with airtel.

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amit
May 22, 2008 1:00 pm EDT

airtel's customer service quality is very poor. they misbehave with their customers by not paying appropiate cognigence to the problems faced by the customers. they disconnect the phones of the customers almost intentionally without solving their problem therefore i personally feel that in this competition market they will be out of the market soon for their bad setvice. for the whole day i have lodged a complain that my internet connection is not working but still they have not paid any hinderance to it. i personally feel that i have wasted my 498 rupees that airtel india have cheated.

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Ashok B. Pathak
May 24, 2008 12:50 am EDT

Dear Sir/Madam,
I have Airtel Pre-paid card my mobile number is [protected] initially it had been activated and it was working but lateron it is not working means it is barred initially I had not submitted the address proof but second time i have submitted all documents which are required
1. Filled form with photo
2. Address proof
3. ID proof
but still my mobile is not working so please take care of my complaint and kindly cooperate me and please activate of my mobile.
Thanks and regards
Ashok Pathak

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pranita dolas
May 27, 2008 12:50 am EDT

I am an airtel customer for last 4 years, My cell no. [protected], Somehow i am not satisfied with their service. because my previous sim card got failed so I have taken new sim card, it also showing the same massage(sim card failed), i am suffering this problem from 2 weeks, They people not respond properly, aslo disscussed with customer care people

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APN SHARMA
Jul 08, 2008 4:16 am EDT

MY COMPLAIN FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS REGARDING POOR SIGNAL INSIDE THE HOUSE AT BELTHUR AREA HAS NOT BEEN ATTENDED TO ALTHOUGH AN AUTOMATIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS RECD VIA SMS FROM AIRTEL CLAIMING THAT THE COMPLAINT IS BEING ATTENDED. IT IS REALLY PATHETIC THAT SUCH A REPUTED COMPANY IS VERY CALLOUS TOWARDS THE CUSTOMERS. WILL THEY NOW ATLEAST, LOOK INTO THE MATTER? FIRST OF ALL DO THEY GO THRU SUCH COMPLAINTS APPEARING IN THE WEB?

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K.K. ANANTHANARAYANA
Aug 17, 2008 10:28 pm EDT

Dear Sir,

After giving complaint no use of u service. I have recharged for rs 222 and get 333. It was not working the std airtel charges was beeing dedected from my main balance instead of 333 balance. only 1 time it was from 333 balance remaining time when i call std airtel again from my main balance the charges was been deducted. still the problem has not bee rectified.

And one more thing when my cell is in roming the airtel people will call i e voice recording with 2 or 3 different number they are calling and my roming chargesd is being deducted.

i request to take immediatel action regarding this matter.

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