Airtel Complaints & Reviews

This is regarding my old airtel account (Ref: [protected]),
This account which was originally cancelled back in december 2015, a payment of 5690 was made to airtel for the full and final, and we called to request a cancellation of the account.

However after about 3 months we started receiving calls form a collection agent that this account was active and over the last months has accumulated a balance of rs11, 428 (We were not in the country, hence the account wasn't being used),

Unsure what this amount was about, we called and spoke to customer service, they denied that we made any calls to cancel the account.
However they were willing to negotiate this amount and offered us a full and final settlement post the payment of rs. 6290,
- which to me is even more alarming, because if this rs11, 428 was a legitimate amount how is airtel waving off thousands of billed charges?

Learning from our past mistake, we demanded this conversation to be sent on an official mail before we make any further payment.

We recieved an email promptly from airtel (Please find attached) and
A representative came the same day to our residence to collect the payment, he suggested we made this payment by cash, so that the matter can be closed asap. We made a cash payment of rs.6290 to the fellow.

We were finally relieved when we received a confirmation from airtel, the receipt of payment on the 28th of march 2016. (However it erroneously calls this a cheque payment, which it is not - at the time we ignored that error)
The chapter was considered closed!

Pfa a copy of the email to authenticate this claim - i have an official mail from airtel validating the same (On 27thmarch 2016) requesting a full and final payment of rs. 6290.
Also, airtel payment receipt number[protected], date of receipt-28th march2016.

But it does not end here!!

After 8 months, yesterday, i get a legal notice for the same account. This time for another fictitious inflated amount of rs.17767.92!!!

Where did this amount come from... On an expired account?

I feel extremely harassed by airtel. A legal notice is no joke!'

How and why should i have to deal with this?
I have tried calling and talking to airtel. Logic does not work with them. They seem utterly clueless, offer no resolution and it seems like they don't even understand your concern.

This feels like they are just fleecing money from unsuspecting customers - using scare tactics. It truly is shameful.

I have been using airtel services forever, i do not expect such actions from a company of good repute. Truly disappointed.

Also, the number on the legal notice is switched off?
What is one supposed to do.

Hoping for a response.

Regards
Sonal parashar

My mobile number disconnected with out any prior notice. You know very well that how mobile is a very important tools like fund transfer, otp etc... Below the communication with call centre...

15.12.16. - your representative give me an email id a_sunil. [protected]@airtel.com to get the exact reasons of the discontinue of the service.

16.12.16. : i received a reply from a_sunil. [protected]@airtel.com mentioning "below connection has been barred under non ownership. So request you to please contact to your local hr and get the approval to activate this number accordingly."

17.12.16. : i have send the scan copy of the approval (Now again attached) and requesting to restore the number. I again call the customer support and the representative told us your number disconnected due to non payment of bills. Side by side i have also complain in airtel portal complain number is po[protected]

Conclusion :

1. I am long time user of airtel how the company discontinue the service without prior notice.
2, i don't know who is a_sunil. [protected]@airtel.com, what is his position i request him i am going through health crisis and my phone is very essential to communicate. He dont replied. Why company hire this type of staff at a very high cost. When i am liable to pay my dues.
3. Put the complain in portal also no response. Why such type of mechanism is require when there is no use in the time o[censored]rgency.

Please look into the matter and restore the connection immediately.

Waiting your early response.

Regards
Bidyut
Alternate number [protected]

My DTH service was not working for around a week(from 13th Dec 2016). I have raised a complaint. They informed the service will be restored in 24 hours. But it didnt happen. No one called me. The number provided by airtel as a point of contact is not picking the phone. Its continuously ringing and there is no response. I am not sure whom should i complaint now to resolve the issue. I only have the option to raise ticket and i did it already. Airtel dont show any response to respond back with the status or ETR.Complaint numbers are

DT[protected]
57218741
57256969

I have taken a 4G LTE Airtel connection on 2-Nov-16 for 15 GB data per month by paying 6 months advance rental of Rs.7700.00. On 3-Nov-16, I received a message that 50% data i.e. 7.5 GB has been consumed. I switched off the modem considering the updates have consumed the data. The 4G LTE modem was started on 19-Nov-16 and stopped on 20-Nov-16. On 20-Nov-16 @ 20.28 hrs i received a message that 100% data has been consumedI switched off the modem since then. But there is continuous usage of data without the modem being on. Moreover, in the next month with the modem switched off, 6.75 gb has been consumed. This is a fraudulent usage by airtel. I have complined and sent mail to [protected]@airtel.com and [protected]@in.airtel.com but Cutomer representatives are speechless and they do not have any answer as well. I want a clear refund of the amount paid to Airtel. It is horrible that a company like Airtel will do this type of thing.

Sir, i am using airtel number of [protected] for past 10 years.in this while brother took my number to dubai. There number was deactivated due to non usable for past 90 days. While buying sim card if sim card was in phone cancellation not possible. But now they are bringing lot of new rules without intimation. I want my number back. Pls take action.

Dear Sir / Madam,

Government encouraging online payment even though many other easy way and facility concern we are using the online payments for TV, Mobile recharge also other payments... Particularly Airtel payments for TV & Mobile they are setting up certain package for payment once we choose and paid at the time of confirmation of payment received we get below msg fyi

Error

Oops!!

Sorry! Your request could not be processed. Please try again later.

Why it is so???? every time after payment done fyki...hope this is fraudulent by Airtel group only believe...
Requesting you please look into this and take necessary action on this issue...

Thanks & Regards,
Sentil Kumar
[protected]

I'm a Airtel postpaid user. Around a year before, Airtel made invalid charges of Rs. 5500 approximately, out of which I got waiver of Rs. 2000. Upon investigation of my case, Mr. Manan, senior executive of airtel, committed to remit balanced waiver of 3496 in monthly bills. So I'm getting a monthly waiver from airtel since June 2016. But this month Airtel denied to give remaining waiver of 1905 and even said that there is no proof that Airtel is giving me waiver from June 2016. But Airtel is not responding now. Please take necessary action on Airtel.

Jasdeep Singh

Sir, I got lot of wrong calls and missed calls to my Airtel number. Please send me the incoming and outgoing calls list of my number for the last year (2016 October to 2016 December) months.Please send me the calls list of my number to my mail id as early as possible.
My Airtel Prepaid account number is [protected]
My email id is:[protected]@gmail.com
Thanking you sir.
Yours sincerely
Jebin Abraham

Today on 17th Dec 2016 I got a SMS from AY-650001 As below:

Rs9=Loc mob(Airtel-10p+Anya-30p)+STD mob 30p/m, 56din
Rs147=4GB 3G/4G+Unlimited, 28din
Rs299=4GB 3G/4G+Unlimited Loc+STD mob call, 28din
Click Airtel.in/5/mamo

I recharged Rs 9 and thought it is for 56 days, as above message says. Then after what notification I got about this recharge from AD-AIRMTA is:

Recharge done on 17-Dec-16 09:47 AM, MRP:Rs9.00, PF:6.83, STax:Rs1.17, Talktime:Rs1.00, Balance:Rs458.37, TransID:579063, Benefit:All Local Mobile calls 30p/min for 7 days.

Is this not a fraud?

Regards,
Gyan Prakash Tiwary

Its been while since i lost my mobile with airtel sim card in college near vandalur. i bought sim card in saidapet, chennai. i need to get back sim card with same no. i dunno who is using my sim card. i keep calling to my no ([protected]) but the person never answerd my cal. please tell me the procedure to get back my sim card with the same number.mail me @[protected]@gmail.com

I bought an hotspot from airtel office of marthahalli dated 8/12/2016 worth 3680... They swiped my card once and all process was done but again they called back and asked me to visit their store as there was some other process to be done but bymistake he has swiped in other card machine and said me that they will be refunding the amount within 24 hours and swiped my card again so my amount was deducted twice and refud wasn't done i gave a callback but no response from the executive person.. Again i went to the store twice but there is no process yet its been more than a week... Refund my amount asap.

I applied for a new broadband connection with airtel towards the end of september 2016. A person from sjr telelinks came to my house and took rs 1200 in cash, saying that rs 200 is the charge towards the notary filing for rental agreement. He gave me a receipt of 1000. He informed that someone will come to my house for installation, but nobody came. I called the customer service and raised a complaint. They told me that there is no feasibility in my area for a broadband connection. I am still waiting for the refund of my rs 1200 and it is 16/12/2016 today. Mt account no with airtel is [protected]. I have raised several complaints with customer service, but to no avail. I got a call from a lady from airtel, who informed me, that someone will call me and return the amount to me in cash. But i did not get any call and this was almost 3 weeks ago. I spoke to the customer service team again today, where i was transferred to a supervisor vinod, who said he is connecting me to a higher department and the call got disconnected from their end, while i was on hold. I have no other option but to raise a complaint in consumer complaints now. Kindly help in retrieving rs 1200 for me and take all necessary actions against airtel for this poor customer service they have provided.

Given below are my details

House no 15, srb philomena nilayam
New thippasandra, 4th main
Jagadish nagar
Bangalore - 560075
Contact no-[protected]

I do have a copy of that receipt as well and the number given for that company sjr telelinks does not exist as well

Sir/Ma'am,
By mistake, I have done a recharge of 156 on the wrong number. I send the mail for it but I am not getting any response from airtel. Even the person who got this recharge is ready to return. Please try to fix this problem. I am using the airtel services from 10 years. Do not break my trust on airtel. This amount is very valuable to me.

Amount: 156
Transaction ID:960845

Sir please help to apply my pf my orcle id ;38838. I worked bharthi airtel limited (South) hyderabad please send my pf number so please pls mail to my mail id ismailjabiyulla. [protected]@gmail.com ismail jabiyulla orachle id 38838 my mobile number [protected] pls do needful my joing date 1/7/2007-my releavive date 8/7/2015 pls provide my pf number so many times am asking in hyd office there is no response pls needful money my dad health is in problem

Its been one week my new airtel broadband internet connection is not working.
I had called up 121 and registered complaint with number: 76319124 on very first day itself. I was assured issue would be resolved in next 24hrs. Forget 24 hrs, its been 7 days internet connection is not restored.

In between, i had even sent mail to [protected]@in. Airtel.com

Seriously, worst customer service.

I recharged for 350/- on dec 1st 2016. But the amount was not added to my pnone balance. So i lodged a complaint after 4-5 days and airtel executive said the amt wil be credited backto my account in 10days from the date of rechage so i checked my account on dec 10 but the amt was not credited. So called airtel cc again and they said on dec 15 exactly at 11 my amt will be credited back to my account. And on dec 14 i got a cal from airtel saying the problem is being resolved and i will get my amt back on 15th dec (They themselve contacted me and said this). I checked my account on dec 16 and still the amt has not be credeited. So i called airtel cc and after fighting wiht executive i got a reply back from senior official saying the mistake is on banks side. Why the hell they inform me this before itself... It took 15 days for them to say this??

Dear sir/mam,
I got a call from your executive she told me the about your 399rs airtel postpaid plan she said in this plan you will get 700 local minutes, 75 std minutes, 300 local & national sms and 10gb 4g data so after hearing the plan i thought it was good then she said you have to port your number in airtel for taking benefits of this plan i said ok then i asked to her please guide me the plan again she told me same as pervious i asked her again for the 10gb 4g data she said its in the plan for lifetime you will get 10gb 4g data every month. Then she said i m sending a executive of mine at your address with airtel postpaid sim kindly handover the documents to him and your number will activate within seven days si i said ok. Then same day the executive is came to my address i handed over documents to him and i also asked him the plan he told me the same as pervious your executive told me over phone. But now the number is activated and ported into airtel i call your customer care they told me you will only get 1gb 4g data every month so airtel why are you fooling customers like this who will use your service next time after fooling him like this. This is really ashamed that india's no one mobile network company fooling and misguiding customers like this. I will take a strict action against you if you not provide me the same plan as she told me over phone call so give me the same plan or i will go to consumer court.

Thanks & regards
Abhishek
Ph no. [protected]

Dear sir or madam,

Day before y'day i had visited to airtel office in faridabad near bk chowk, where document was submitted to change bill plan in corporate, even yesterday address verification was done @my home. Yesterday in the morning the undersigned has contacted airtel @198 to check the activation status, where it was informed @13:25 apx that this number will be activated within 4 hours.

Yesterday evening the number was not activated and undersigned again contacted with airtel @198 thru another mobile than airtel executive informed me that this number is not pertaining to you and its running to other name. It was really shocking news for me.

When i visited to airtel own outlet than i got information that number was ported out in airtel haryana in the name of mr mandeep singh. I would like to report a fraud case that the undersigned never given my port no to any airtel person.

Further my daily work is getting hampered with a huge loss. Kindly provide solution by tomorrow itself along with compensation towards daily work loss.

I want to registered fraud case against airtel, where i am seeking your help.

Thanking you,

P. S.
Alternate mobile no. [protected]

Hi sir
Please deactivated my no.[protected] because my card missing, by me So please sir

Airtel customer care is a bunch of ********. I wanted to terminate my broadband connection and they have not been able to take my request despite calling them for more than 10 times and waiting for several hours.

Frustrating it is for the customer and airtel needs to be sued for harassing the customers like this and not respecting their time.

Is there any way i can terminate my connection?