Hi,
I am using Airtel prepaid sim (+91-[protected]). At present I am using it in roaming.
2 days ago on 26 Oct 2014, I had around 140/- Rs. balanced in my account,
but all of sudden whole amount deducted and I just got 1/- Rs. balanced. Then yesterday again I recharged for 200/- Rs and I could see the amount 201/- in the main balance. Now today it deducted again around 100/- from the account and current balance is 111.41/-. I am sure I have not activated any services, but its automatically deducting huge balance from my main account balance.I had activated 3G plan which also i requested for STOP due to this automated deduction problem. Could you please advice on the amount deduction charges and how to avoid this? As I have not activated any VAS service, please advice and arrange for refunding of auto deducted balance.
Thanks for understanding.
Complaint marked as Resolved I got he below response from the airtel, hence resolving this complaint for now.
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Dear Customer,
This is in reference to your email regarding the balance deduction for your airtel mobile number.
We have verified our records and found that, Rs.99/- has been deducted on 27/10/2014 and 28/10/2014 for International Roaming monthly rental.
International Roaming Service is active by default on your airtel Prepaid number. There is a monthly rental of Rs. 99/- which would be deducted from your balance once you latch on to the roaming network.
We would like to inform you that, once the mobile number latch to international Roaming Rs.99/- will be deduct by default on all prepaid mobile numbers. Further, we wish to inform you that once latch to home network internation roaming service will be deactivate automatically.
Further, we understand your discontent on charges levied towards data usage and hereby wish to address your concerns. We observe that you have charged Rs.96.85/- at 04paisa/10KB from 26/10/2014. We studied your account and found that charges are levied as per your usage and no wrong charges found.
In future, we recommend you to keep mobile data off to avoid this kind of charges when there is no usage.
While we understand your view on excess data consumption, here are some possibilities how you may exceed the free data usage .
a. Some applications installed on your phone may as well connect to internet at regular intervals. Typically, anti-virus and security software¿s require to update themselves when you are connected to internet
b. If you are a BlackBerry/iPhone/Smartphone user, your phone may frequently ping to update data. Also, some screens/wallpaper showing weather data may connect to internet and update data
c. Data consumption would also depend on downloads/streaming data(video, chat etc)
Please dial *121*2# (Toll free) to check your balance and validity.
Thank you for choosing airtel.
Best Regards
Khursheed Ahmed
Airtel customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
This is with reference to your post dated 28 Oct. 2014. We would like to acknowledge that we are working to address your concern as soon as possible. We will connect with you to get additional details, if required, to resolve the concern effectively.
You can also get in touch with us at airtel.[protected]@airtel.com
Regards
Saurav Ahlawat
airtel presence (airtel customer service team)
bharti airtel ltd.
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