[Resolved]  Airtel — Mobile Portability failed due to Airtel and number is out of service for 2 weeks. Airtel repeatedly ignoring my complaints.

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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Hi, I was working in bangalore till May, 2015. My vodafone number was [protected] I moved to Hyderabad last month. I requested for portability to airtel for the same number on 17th June, from Paradise Mobile's S.No16-2-225/1, Beside TV Tower, Moosrambagh, Malakpet, Hyderabad - 500036. After a few days, on 24th June my Vodafone Bangalore sim got deactivated. Next day i put the airtel sim. And Verification was done by the customer service. They told to switch off and on the phone after 30 minutes. I did the same. But sim did not get activated. For the next two days i made lots of calls to customer care. They kept on saying issue would be resolved as soon as possible. On 24th a customer care executive told that there is a technical issue at airtel and told it would be resolved within 24 hours. On 25th when i try to call customer care from this sim, it stopped reaching the customer care. After i select English and press 9 for customer care talking, the call dies off. I mailed to the airtel team several times. They also couldnt help. Some of the mail replies from airtel said that my number is already activated as per airtel records. But till today when i dial any number on the airtel sim, it goes to the automated message saying "Your sim activation is in progress. Please switch off and on the phone after 30 minutes" I did everything. Removed the Sim and inserted again. Tried the sim in another handset. But nothing helped. Finally on Sunday, when i called from one of my friends phone to customer care, one customer care executive told me that bangalore to hyderabad portability cannot happen. I have contacted airtel customer care exeutives in hyderabad. I have raised complaints with airtel(https://www.consumercomplaints.inairtel-b100013) with reference numbers : 1.OT[protected]. OT[protected]. OT[protected]. OT[protected]. OT[protected]. OT[protected]. OT[protected]. PR[protected]. PR[protected] None of my complaints were taken seriously. I sent many number of mails to [protected]@in.airtel.com. I didnt get any favourable replies. I have asked for help from airtel twitter. They called me. But did not offer any solutions. They asked about the problem and tactically ended the calls. This number is very important to me.It is my official number . My netbanking is linked to this number. Also I have suffered lots of losses due to the service unavailability to this number in the past few days. I have missed many calls to my numbers and I have lost lots of business in last few days due to this portability problem. Lots of couriers are returned and lots of my work is affected. Also I have spend lots of time trying to contact customer care for help during the past 11 days. This is a really a horrible experience. I really want to know what airtel did to my number. Have they lost my number. Or have they lost my documents? Why are they not responding? I have posted complaint in Grahak Seva also. http://www.grahakseva.com/complaints/251076/negligance-from-airtel-aitel-portability-not-working Initially they told they will look into issue. Then as usual they ignored my issue. Same issue is happening with airtel customer care in twitter. Every day i ask for update on my portability issue to their customer care in twitter. And everytime they casually repeat that they will send an "update" to me soon. I really have a suspicion that they are not replying because something has happened to my number. May be Airtel is not able to solve the issue and they are hoping that if they keep ignoring my issue I will eventually lose patience and move on with my humiliation silently.