| Address: Mumbai City, Maharashtra |
MMS services were activated on my mobile number without my consent, and I was charged Rs. 99 as a monthly rental. I did not notice the charges until Dec'11 when I randomly checked my bill. So I went back and checked my previous bills and was shocked to find out that I was charged Rs. 99 from April 2010 onwards. I called up their customer care in Dec'11 and asked them to discontinue the MMS service, but they did not do anything about it. So I wrote a mail to the Nodal Officer in Mumbai on 1st March 2012, and explained them what was the problem and asked for reversal of charges. I just received an automated acknowledgement mail..Finally I wrote a mail to Appellate Mumbai on 28th March 2012 and brought this to their notice. I got a call from them within 3 days of my complaint, but they just agreed to refund me Rs. 299 out of the total amount.
Also inspite of writing them about the MMS services wrongly activated on my number, they again charged me Rs. 79.84 in my Apr 2012 bill.
I wrote one more mail to them and threatened them to bring the matter to the notice of their Company CEO , Mr. Mittal, CFO, Mr. Kapoor and to the Consumer Forum. I again got a call from them, but they were just not ready to pay any heed to my threat. They even openly challenged me that I can go to any forum or even write to their Top Management but still will not refund my balance amount. The question is not about the amount but the rationale behind charging amounts on an adhoc basis, which I am aware AIRTEL is famous for.
Total amount wrongly charged till date : Rs. 2230 + Rs. 79 = Rs. 2309
Total Refund received till date : Rs. 299.00
Balance Not Yet Refunded : Rs. 2010
Before approaching you , I tried to get my problem resolved through various other channels, but no luck.
Hope to get justice and my money back.
Thank you
Swapnil
AirTel — fraud by airtel sales executives
I am Yogesh Choudhary resident in Pune.In December '08 first week airtel sales personnel name Shruti, cell no. [protected] called me for their new postpaid scheme,
Then I agree on one scheme of 350 monthly rental postpaid plan, to convert my same prepaid no. [protected] into postpaid.
Then they send their sales executive to fill the form and collect advance money of INR 250 and give a new postpaid sim card of wrong series at my resident and after that they delay my connection for two weeks and after that when I ask them angrily about my connection they told we are just file your profile right now and on dec. 22 2008 they cancelled my prepaid sim card registration and my postpaid connection is active on dec 23 2008 but I don't have right sim card which is active to till today (dec. 30 2008) and their cell no.[protected] is switched off and airtel customer care says we can't do anything you have to contact those people from whom you purchase that plan.
please help me