Airtel Complaints & Reviews

sir,

I'm had done the airtel online recharge for rs. 200 through net banking in the website : https://pay.airtel.in/. After all the transaction the amount from my account of rs. 200 is deducted but recharge is not done. Narration details are MHDF[protected]-AIRTEL BHARTI. i'm not the information Txn number also. please do the needful as soon a possible.

Hi,

Mail received below was a confirmation that there was no plan migration[Forced] on my airtel connection.
But contrary I am getting billed from last 2 months for new forced plan of Rs499.

I made several service requests with current request no.13376268, but no relief or correction made to my bill(s) and plan.

I repeat to tell have not made any request for change or up-gradation in my current plan of Rs449.

Therefore, I am not liable to pay any extra cost or incovinence caused by you to me.

I request to disconnect the connection if company have no solution or intention to correct my bill(s) and plan.

Regards
Saurabh Aggarwal
Airtel Connection :[protected]


On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:19 AM, <[protected]@airtel.in> wrote:
Dear Customer,

Ref: Email dated[protected], regarding change in plan of airtel number [protected].

Thank you for writing to airtel and the opportunity to assist you.

We would like to inform that as per our records, you are in Special Retention Rs 449/- and we are unable to found any request for plan migration under your account.

It is our privilege to have you as our valued customer and would like to thank you for your continued patronage. We look forward to a long and fruitful association with you.

Please do write in for any further assistance.



warm regards,

Haritha M
customer care executive
bharti airtel limited

I m piyush agrawal ,mob. No. [protected] , my 90 rupees has been deducted from my airtel prepaid main account balance without any legal information.. Dated 24 03 2012: so please return my balance as soon as possible.....

We have been using the Airtel Broadband services (# [protected]) since 2009. The internet speed was good initially.. but its been really pathetic in past few months. To add to the worst, the broadband connection went down in Sec-62 noida on Thursday, 22 March 2012. Following is the list of events that occured since then:
- Filed a complaint on friday, 23 March 2012 in the afternoon. Response: We were promised that the connection will be up and running by 1600 hrs on Friday itself. In the evening, it was still not working. We called up ard 6 in the evening and were told that it'll be resolved on saturday.
- On Saturday, 24 March 2012, the problem still persisted. On calling the customer support, we were told that there is some technical fault in that area, and it'll be resolved by Monday, ard 11 am.
- On Monday, I received a msg that the ticket that was raised wrt our complaint was successfully resolved. WHEREAS.. it wasnt. We called up in the afternoon, and were told that problem has been resolved in sec-62 so there must be some problem with our individual connection and their engineer will pay us a visit in the evening. In the evening, the engineer called us and said that the problem still persists in our area, so there is no need for a visit and shall be fixed by tuesday 11 am.
- On tuesday, still there was no progress. We called again, and were told it'll be fixed by 2 pm. No progress till 5 in the evening, so we called again. and were told that the engineer will call us and visit us ASAP. No engineer call. No Visit. Broadband still not working. Finally we called up again and spoke with some senior person Mr Bharat and told him that if you have to give false promises and provide no services, then please disconnect out connection. He REQUESTED to be given one last chance and ASSURED that we give them another day and it'll be resolved DEFINITELY.
- On Wednesday, Still no progress. Again False promises for engineer visit, STILL NO RESPONSE. Finally ard 7-8 pm, I requested for the disconnection of our services. Received a call from their team regarding disconnection and we were AGAIN given false assurances that it'll be resolved by 2pm in the afternoon on Thursday.
- On Thursday, we again received a call from their retention team. I asked them to tell me the EXACT STATUS of the problem rather than lies and by when will the problem be resolved. The guy after keeping the line on hold for a while said it'lll take MAXIMUM 7 days. Even after 7 days of persistence of problem, they needed another 7 days.. that was insane. On being harsh, i was told that there will be a ENGINEER VISIT DEFINITELY in the evening.

Its ALREADY SUNDAY.. and STILL NO PROGRESS.. I dont know if they are working towards the resolution of the problem or the service disconnection. I DONT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE. There have been ATLEAST 30 conversation over the phone. The call duration ranging till 40 mins also.

They have been causing us enough Inconvenience and mental harassment. I really dont know what to do for making the connection up and running. TIRED of making long phone calls at Customer Support, Requesting, Fighting, Waiting and wasting MY OWN precious time in all this.

Sorry for SUCH a LONG Complaint Detail. But this is JUST a small part of the whole mess.

Please Do the needful. They are taking this issue way too lightly.

Sir,

I'm a new user of Airtel since Feb 2012, holding pre-paid mob connection No. [protected] & activated GPRS pack. I'm facing slow connection problem while browsing internet through Micromax USB Modem (MMX 310G)/Nokia Phone. Could you please explain how I can speed up my internet connection. Please also explain how I can activate call conferencing in my above SIM........................... Yours Sincerely, Sudeesh G

I recharged my No with 200/- for talk time but after recharge when i called up at one place and i came to know that my all amount has been deducted. then again i called up at call centre then agent told me that this recharge is for GPRS activation and for talk time it is of Rs 201/- and before recharging my account i have already called to call centre and agent told me that we have only Rs 50, 101,200 & 441 for talk time & dealer told us you will get the talk time in Rs 200 recharge. and after this wrong deduction i called to call centre then another agent told me that we have Rs 201 top up in which you will get the talk time.

Now pl tell me every person is giving different information and i don't know who is giving me correct information.

My 200Rs got lost due to this wrong information which is giving by your agent & dealer.

pl return my money back or else i am going to left this No.

My No - [protected]

this is my postpaid connection.there have withdrawn my connection with my notice.as my cell no is [protected].Pls do the needful help.we r ready to what balance amount is.

Dear Team ,

Would like to bring into your notice that Airtel debit money from accounts of customer with out any reason. I have purchased the number and got Rs 30 as balance. After sometime , when i checke the account , Rs 20 was debitted from my account. Again i recharged my number with Rs 50 . Again Rs 40 was debitted from my account. Airtel people told me that I have downloaded a game called Nazara.... However, firstly , i never downloaded any game .. secondly ... there is no game called nazara in android market.
The representatives at airtel in Andheri customer care took this thing very casually and instead of assisting me.. they simply ignored.... I was told to contact 999 from the landline number, they were also help less in understanding the issue.

This is nto the first time with Airtel. I have used Airtel sims in Chandigarh , Bangalore and now in Mumbai .. everytime the same issue ... sometime .. they say ,,, u have downloaded game .. else, they activate the caller tune,.

Airtel got the worst service.. They are such a big brand and just cry for 5-10 - 15 rs.. everytime they deduct money.

Ph [protected]

Dear sir,
I am working 1998 oct 1st to 10 Aug 2010 in airtel as driver, technical asst, officer i am hard working in company last 2010 1 small and silly thing one senior person my career is spoil is yearly rating a4 that time my rating come a2 place but i am trust that person and leave the job today allso i am not getting job any ware what can i do plz help me and mail me [protected]@in.com

espected sir,

I have submitted my residential certificate duly stamped and signed by the authorities and also a copy of my PAN card after the sim vendor made me sign the APEF. but still im getting messages stating the the form is incomplete and please resubmit for extended services. i dont understand what is going on?. my number is [protected].

I had bought an Airtel corporate connection for my office, Under an unlimited plan of Rs. 3,999/month which gives 2 mbps speed without any usage-policy.

I bought the connection thinking i will start my office in few days, but due to some other issues, I was unable to start the office. So i thought of placing my number in safe custody so i wouldn't get billed as per the plan I'm subscribed to.

I called up Airtel customer care, told them i would like to place my number in safe custody and the executive said I'll be charged Rs.400/month until i request to release my number from safe custody, I agreed to pay Rs.400/month and asked him to place the number in safe custody, he confirmed the same and told me the number has been placed in safe custody and from the next bill I'll be getting Rs.400 bill instead of my plan charges.

Since the office wasn't started and i didn't go to my office location for about a month or 2, Airtel had generated bills and sent to my office address as per the plan i was subscribed! I had no idea the bills are being generated as per plan and are being sent to my office address until i got a call from collection agency asking me to pay the outstanding amount of Rs. 4,000 (Approx. including taxes.etc.), I told them i had placed the number in safe custody and how can they generate a bill as per the plan. They said they will check and get back to me. I kept on getting calls for about a week, Random people calling from collection agency and asking to pay the outstanding amount, I had to explain the same thing to all and they were all saying same thing "they will check and get back to me". But no one ever got back to me with the details of safe custody request i had placed.

Then suddenly i stopped getting calls from Airtel collection agency and i thought they checked my request i had placed for safe custody and this is why I'm not getting any calls. This went on and Airtel generated another bill for another month of Rs.4,000 (Approx. including taxes.etc.). Once again I'm not aware of the bill being sent to my office address as i was not going to the site and was busy with my other work.

After few days, Once again i started getting calls from Airtel Collection agencies asking me to pay outstanding amount of total Rs. 8,000 (Approx. Including taxes.etc.) for 2 months bill. I told them the same thing about my safe custody request i had placed on my account and they were saying the same thing that they will check and get back to me but no one ever got back, then finally i was bomber-ed with lots of calls from airtel (like 3-4 per day at wrong timing) and this time threatening me to take legal action if the outstanding is not paid and the connection was already disconnected, I never used their line even once and in spite after placing the request for safe custody they repeatedly generated bills as per the plan and continued to call me and ask me to pay them.

Since the time was going and i didn't pay the bill all because of their collection agency telling me they will look into this matter of safe custody request and get back to me as soon as possible, Once again another bill was generated and a total sum of Rs. 12,000 was my outstanding and more calls started this time and one of them even scammed me!

I asked them how much i need to pay to get the connection activated, they said i need to pay only Rs. 6,000 and they will activate my line again, After few calls (They wanted to discuss with their seniors), I agreed to pay the amount they asked me and they agreed to activate, when they sent their person to my place to collect the payment, I paid him cash and he called up his manager to confirm and that manager spoke to me and promised to activate the line within 24 hours or i can call him up if it doesn't get activated.

48 hours pasted, I kept on waiting and then i called up customer care to see if the payment was updated and when the connection will be activated. The executive confirmed the payment and here's the shocking part, he told me i still have an outstanding amount of Rs. 6,000 and the number will never get activated until i clear the remaining outstanding amount on my account, I explained him everything about the conversations i had with that manager, executives who called me up to ask for the outstanding and about the safe custody request i had placed but they still generated bills. He took note of everything and placed a complain and told me one of their executives will get back to me on this matter.

He gave me request number, i noted that and was waiting for their call, I never got any call, so i thought of calling up CC myself and follow-up on my request i had placed. When i said i had placed a request about my matter (Had to explain him everything all from start), he said there is no request on my account, I quoted him my request number and he said the number shows no results and there is no request placed whatsoever.

I was so pissed of this and he took the request again and told me I'll get a call within 7 working days, Same thing happened again! No call from airtel and now i started to get calls from other collection agency for the remaining amount and this time i spoke directly to the manager from start and he said I'll get a letter from airtel saying the outstanding is settled and there is no balance against the number i had, I had to explain him everything about the previous manager and the amount i had paid and he just said the number cannot be activated until the payment is cleared and if i don't clear, they will take legal action against me. Now I said I'll talk to the other manager and get back to them. I called up the old manager several times and he wasn't picking up any calls, after trying repeatedly for few days, he finally picked up my call and when i explained him about this another outstanding amount airtel is asking, he said he doesn't know anything about this and he has just uploaded my funds and had forwarded the request to activate my number.

Again i was pissed because of all these things happening and airtel never got back to me on this matter but those collection agency used to call and trouble me, I decided to clear the outstanding amount as i didn't want any legal issues because i usually have to travel abroad for my current business and if i had this legal case, then i wouldn't be able to go and everything would have been messed for small amount, When this manager called up and gave me guarantee saying they will activate the line and I'll get the settlement letter from them and there will be no problems hereafter. I agreed to just end this matter by paying the amount, so i asked him to send his person to my place with the letter copy and i had told him to mention that they will activate the line after the payment is cleared in the letter, he said he will mention and when i got the letter, he didn't mention they will activate the line and it had just mentioned the payment is fully cleared and there is no outstanding, seeing this i called up that manager and asked him why he didn't mentioned and he said this is a settlement letter and that cannot be mentioned and he takes guarantee for activation and all the stuffs, After disagreeing to him as the other manager had told me the same thing, He started talking roughly and threatened me saying if i don't clear, I'll end up in a legal action and they know how to collect the payment from a legal way, As i mentioned early i didn't want to get into any legal fights, so i just paid him and again same thing happened, the line never got activated and 1-2 months went by but no one is there to care, when i called up CC, one says different story and another says something else, some guys used to say the line will be activated after i place the request over the phone, so i placed the request and they give their so called request number which are just fake, this went on and after following up with them after 14 days (they had told me within 14 days the number will be activated from the day i place the request), quoted them with my request number and again there is no history and no request, I just wonder what these CC people do, either they don't know how to place the request properly or the whole system is built to cheat customers by simply generating fake request numbers which have no history as per other CC executives.

So yeah, I had to place another request and i got no response for my request. When again i called up CC, this is the time when i came to know the number has been fully removed from my account and it cannot be activated whatsoever. I was pissed once again to know that i ended up wasting time, calling them and even paying for the number i never used. Since the payment was cleared, the guy told me they can give me a new number if i request them. I had no other choice other than placing this request and anyhow the number was not distributed to anyone, so that was really not a problem for me, He placed request and told me within 3 working days they will send their people to my place to collect documents again!

It took them over a month just to call me for the new number, but anyway the office was not yet started, so i was not in hurry and the delay was fine with me. They sent 2 guys to my location and these guys collected my documents, submitted and it got processed normally like a new connection and I got a call from installation guy to config the BB. I asked him to visited my office in evening time as i was busy with my other work. He visited my office and the BB was activated, then as usual airtel called me up to confirm he installed and asked few questions and at the same time, I once again told him i won't be using this number and would like to place this in safe custody, he once again explained me same thing (Rs.400/month charges..etc.) and this time i had subscribed for Rs.1399 plan as the corporate plan was withdrawn. So the person who had called me up asked me if he has to place the request for safe custody and he can do it if i tell him to do so. So i said okay place the number in safe custody and he said he has successfully placed the number in safe custody and they won't generate bills according to the plan but will charge Rs.400/month.

So once again, The office is not yet started and i don't usually go to the site, Bills were generated by airtel as per the plan (Rs.1399), they had sent 1 month bill and since i wasn't knowing they were sending the bills, the due date for the first month crossed and I was still unaware of this. They generated second bill and this is when i came to know as airtel started to call me and ask for the outstanding amount, I asked the amount and i thought it would be Rs.800 or around that including taxes.etc. because i had placed the number in safe custody, but the lady told me it's around Rs.2,000+ I was confused at that time and told her I'll first talk to CC and then pay them. When i called up CC asking them for more details on how many months bill it was and why it was Rs. 2000+ they said it's as per my subscribed plan. This is when things started to go wrong. I explained him about the safe custody request and once again same thing happened and he said there is no request in my account and this is when i really came to know the process of safe custody!

He explained me i need to first clear the payment, then go to airtel outlet and give them written request and then only the number will be placed in safe custody, I told him the first guy never explained me this process and he had told me he has placed my number in safe custody and then i told him i would like to file a complain against this matter as this was the second time they attempted to leach money from me and he said i have to email airtel at [protected]@in.airtel.com, I sent an email explaining the whole matter and this time i threaten them to take legal action if they don't resolve this issue.

I got a call from a guy called Anoop and he seem to be nice and then explained me the whole process and i explained him the old matter and this current issue with them and he said there is no request for safe custody hence the bills are normally generated and there is no issue with my account and i told the guy whom i spoke to at the time of installation didn't explain this process and just told me he has placed the number in safe custody, He wanted me to prove him, He said he can't help me if i don't get any proof for that request i had placed, Now i never thought they would do this again and scam me, otherwise i would have just recorded the call between me and the person whom i spoke at that time.

Their whole system is built to scam people!

Summary:
1. They won't explain the process properly to place your number in safe custody and just ask you if you would like to place it or not and if you tell them to place the request, they say they have successfully placed the request and they will also give you fake request number (Though i never got any request number from them for safe custody, but for any other requests, they give you the number and when you follow-up, there is no history on their systems)
2. They will generate bills as per the plan you are subscribed and if you explain them and tell them you had placed the number in safe custody, they will just waste your time saying they will check and get back to you, this is their tactic to generate another bill, they do their best to make sure they generate as many bills as they can to leech more money from you.
3. If you don't pay the amount, the collection agencies will trouble you full day asking you to pay and if you explain them the matter, they simply don't care about anything and just say they will check and next day same thing repeats and you yourself end up paying the amount after they threaten you to take legal action and you get pissed of getting so many calls from them.
4. If you threaten them to take legal action and ask them to resolve the issue, they ask you for the proof and tell you there is no request on their system, since the systems are owned by them, controlled by them we can't do anything and just end up having no proofs and even if they give you their so called request number, they won't have any history, So basically they scam and then clear the history and blame you only saying you didn't place any requests.etc.

The above issues is still going on and I'm still getting calls, now i just decided to clear the payment and just disconnect their service, since i have nothing to proof (obviously they didn't explain me the process correctly and on top of all this, they blame me only saying that's not how the safe custody request is placed and asking me to prove them.)

Conclusion: STAY AWAY FROM AIRTEL, THEY ARE THE NUMBER OF FRAUDSTERS IN INDIA AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING UNLESS YOU HAVE THE WRITTEN PROOF.

P.S. If they want written proof of your request, then why the hell they have Customer Care in first place! And If they call you, they don't record your call and if you call them and place the request, they do record but they will never give you the clip if it proves them wrong, but if you're wrong, then they will bring up all the call logs/recorded clips/account history.etc. and prove you wrong.

I got an SMS saying 'Thanks for choosing RE1_IPLAYER at Re. 1/day' even when i hadn't done anything. And then my balance keeps decreasing every day. I sent the SMS 'STOP iPlayer' and 'STOP RE1_IPLAYER' to both 121 and 1210 but it says it cannot find any services that i've subscribed to. This is clear cheating. Please remove my subscription immediately and restore my lost balance.

Mobile number: [protected]
Name: Haritosh Joshi

I am a prepaid customer of Airtel services since the last 4 years. There have been many instances where an additional service was started without my knowledge & later on charged for it. Recently i have faced a similar situation and was forcefully charged for the service which I had never selected. On interrogation I was not explained in detail regarding it and in turn i was treated rudely buy the call centre executive.

I have the reference of the services & the call made to stop it.

Service id= ITW.Sizzling.Celebs_AD-54321.
cal reference= COVWC[protected]-Airtel IMO.

This took place on 28 March 2012.

Please let me know if this is enough information to taje action or give feedback to the company.
My name- Mithun
cell no- [protected].

Thanks.

Transferred Rs. 330 = 00 towards mobile recharge from HDFC bank at 3:50 pm today[protected].But the mobile was not recharged. On enquiry on their phone no. [protected] I was told that the process will take four hours. at 9:30 pm i contacted problem not solved at first attempt. again i tried four times but i could not reached the attendent. Usless manerless dirty service.

My mobile No. is [protected]

Hdfc bank ref no:[protected]

Transaction I. D. :- MHDF[protected]-AIRTEL BHARTI

Respected Sirs,
I would like to inform you that my mobile number [protected] has been diconected for last one week. Alt without informing me they have disconected the line. I have written them (AIRTELhough I had recharged the number as it is prepaid line and also took internet conection in the line.
, they disconected the same. I have written the company for the same and they assured me that they are lookng in the metter, but I did not get any Respected Sir, would you please look in to the matter and let me get the number back as world wide I have given this number to my relatives, friends and BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.
Looking forward to hear from your good selves soon. Further you can contact me on C/O [protected] .
Regards
Gunjan Sawlani
Email: [protected]@hotmail.com

I have a DTH cinnection of Airtel. But from last 3 month i am not using the DTH service so an executive from customer care of this company call me and instructed that if you are not using this DTH so have to recharge it with 150 Rs and put it in a safe cusyody mode . I agreed i recharged my DTH connection by 200 Rs on 7th feb and call at customer care for put my DTH connection in safe custody , he told me ok i have done it.But yesterday on 29th march a massage came to me from Airtel service that my balance is zero and and my service is suspended and i wiil have rechaege , Icalled to customer care and answered me that the safe custody is not activated in my account , i told to him how it is possible Your executive told me that your safe costody is on at that time, but they didn't give me any satisfied answer also they not responce properly their executive told me that our seniour will call you but they didn't call me till now

We have called to customer care lot of times and informed about signal loss in both the connections from airtel.
We have two connections from airtel and since two days we cannot watch TV as there is no signal to these antennas.
even after repeated follow-ups no body visited our place.

Mobile:[protected].
Airtel Customer id:[protected].

Hello, This is pradeep M C. I was using vodafone service with number [protected]. I have applied for number portability from vodafone to airtel. Porting to airtel is done. but they have not provided the SIM card. And all the plans are activated as I got messages to vodafone number day before porting day. So, some one may be misusing this. Please block the airtel number [protected].

Hi, i am prem sutar, user of airtel service provider since many year, my mobile no. is [protected], last night i recieved massages from AD54321 saying thank you for downloading software and charged me 50rs. Whereas i did not download any software, i just do my regular updates but i have not charged anytime, please i request do needful to me as soon as possible, thank you in advance.

Dear SIr,
My self Aravind Kumar with consumer ID no [protected].I purchased the connection on 31-Oct-2011 and got the connection on 1-Nov -2011 services started with bengali/oriya regional pack ,were i requested for telugu regional after repeated calls they changed to telugu.
when i Purchased the connection free validity was mentioned for 6 months but they disconnected service on 24-mar-2012 which a head of free period.
when i call the lazy/mum service center they have given service request no 17326280,17257078 ,but till now there is no response regarding this, even i have submitted the copy of date of purchase receipt.Now they are saying vendor has cheated me,how can vendor activate the connection before i purchase,does the airtel should have common sense.
i request no one should opt airtel and Zeetv -Dishtv which are worst among the service provider.