Vodafone India — Promoting annoying advertisements, deduction of charges for services not requested

Address:Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 053

I'm a subscriber of vodafone (Tsmilnadu circle) mobile services such as 3 g and voice calls.
Recently, i have been facing problems of annoying advertisements provided by vodafone india. Recently some vulgar websites were popping up regularly and complaints were launched with the service provider immediately asking them to block such advertisements. However, no effort seems to have been made or neither my complaints taken seriously.
Yesterday, ie 27/11/2016, a game was installed into my mobile in the name of 'tube world' without my request for such a service and an amount of rs.35/- deducted from my talk time balance.
Similarly, on 9th nov.2016 another game pack by the name of 'skill derby' got installed into my device without my request for such a game pack.
The problems with these game packs are that once installed, we are not able to uninstall the same and keeps popping up every now and then.
I suspect, these game packs are a ploy to collect personal infos from our devices.
Similarly, vulgar websites are promoted by the service provider.
In spite of several complaints to vodafone tamilnadu customer care, nothing has been done to stop such nuisances.
This proves that no proper and adequate security system exists with the service providers.
I request the authorities to initiate action against the service providers.
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Vodafone India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
Nov 28, 2016
Updated by Kannansvr
It is a routine happening that when ever, we call the customer care of service providers, the customer care help desk never picks the call immediately and even when the customer care answers our phone, we are told to wait endlessly for getting clarifications.
Incidentally all the service providers viz. Vodafone India, Airtel and Idea Celllular charge for calling their customer care.
It is a common practice by these service providers to put on hold the calls received from the complainants.
This way we end up paying high call charges and several times I have ended up paying Rs5/- to 8/- per call just to get the information.
I consider this as unjustifiable since it is the duty of the service provider to provide information and clarification sought by their subscribers.
This is an act of cheating and fleecing the subscribers to which the TRAI must take a serious view.
Customer Care is a part and parcel of a service provider towards the subscribers and therefore no charges should be levied on these.
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I had complaint from last one year for network complaints but till i didn't get any resolution from vodafone side. Every time your reprsentative said the work is on progress but now i fed up with you promises. Now when i get solution than i will paid the bill.

Lokesh Sharma
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