Airtel Complaints & Reviews

Dear Manager(Sr.),
Airtel, Customer Care,
Mumbai, Maharashtra Circle,
Complaints and Resolutions.

Sir, I have called a customer executive over my mobile phone @ [protected], preppaid conection, Maharashtra circle, regarding my querry to find what are the options to use internet over the mobile, since I bought a new handset, Microsoft Q2+, what are the options. The executive askked that there are two different plans to start wich Rs.5/-, a day usage, and Rs.10/-, for 3 days usage on airtel gprs. If I wanted to know how to do it they said you can do it for the Rs.10/- can do it over the phone now itself. that they did.

But, I could not make any outgoing calls after this and I could not to use the internet either. I tried and comlaint but it did not worked for two days.
Untill I tried and kept trying the CC, Airtel to complaint and asked for help.
They said we would do it and you do not have to pay for the 2-3 days and we would do it ourside. After that when I tried it did show the google page. but it is not usable at all. I could not use anything like email either.
And to my shock I found that your sms stating that your Rs.3/- per day has been added for GPRS usage which I did not asked for. However, They have deducted for Rs.10/- for 3 days GPRS. Pls. "STOP" GPRS subscription that I asked for. pls. refund the money back at an earliest.

I have been trying to call Cust. Care, airtel but Its not working since two days long. Pls. help and resolve my issues and refund.
Pls. find my complaints below:

1. GPRS connection I did not asked for. pls. "STOP".

2. I dont know what Im getting for women sms and profiles pls. "STOP" I believe it is due to IM or something but pls. "STOP".

3. I am not getting network properly. its been very bad network/coverage at my new handset micromax Q2+.

I would wait for your call back @ [protected] and email, at an earliest and resolution.

Great,

Dinesh R.G.
(Dinesh R. Gangaramani).

Respected Sir
I have a Airtel Prepaid Moble bearing No:[protected]. But I have been feeling totally annoyed with your undue charged SMS like Gyan Pack & others since long back. You are making fool all the Indian deceiving and collecting Crores of money which is also a one kind of Corruption. Your such practices will certainly invite Criminal Case of Fradulency. We the Victims are going to lodge Complaints with Criminal Case at the Court of Law within a short time.
Thanks
Mrs Tuntun Das
Associate Professor
Dept of Physics, B B K College, Nagaon, Barpeta
NB: Similar Case of harrassment has also been occured to a Post Paid BSNL Mobile No.[protected] that belongs to my Husband. The BSNL has been collecting unauthorised money from my Mobile sending SMS for Love Tips etc. We are proceeding to Court of Law immediately.

Hi,

It is really very shamefull that after being a MNC company they are unable to give the proper resolution to the customer.

I am using airtel no. is [protected]. They activated so many subscription without my consent. eg dance club etc. I tried to deactive that by callin airtel customer care (121) rather than giving me any resolution they told me to ring on different-different no.

Now it become a hectic problem to deactivate anything with the help of customer care. plese do the needful.

customer care ref no : RSBDE[protected]


regards,
Pankaj Mishra
pankaj.[protected]@gmail.com
[protected]

I have an issue with Airtel with in the 3months of service where the Line got down 2 times and whenever the line goes down getting a service request number through the call center is a hectic task often call disconnection and poor customer service employees sleeping on calls. They sucks. and finally got the service request number 2445698. still they are working on i called them on 18.08.11 and issue is supposed to be resolved on 1pm on 19th but then the poor sucking escalation manager asked for extra time to resolve as the service request is open and promised a call back but then no call back was made on the promised time 3pm on 19th and then tried nodal was always busy tried appeallate always busy and then call gets disconnected after very long hold and then [censored]ing people called me and said sorry but then the issue is not resolved till date the issue is not resolved and complained in an airtel showroon and they tried and given a fake time of resolution where no technician is ready to fix the issue. [censored] of this kind of service provider and consumers please stay away from these cheap and unethical business service provider in the market who are worst in service.

I am having a very had time getting my airtel broadband disconnected.
I have moved from Bangalore to Pune and requested for my Airtel
broaband to be cancelled on 26th of July 2011. The request number is
1335487. I was told that someone will call me for cancellation of the
cponnection but no one did. I have made atleast 10 calls to your
customer care but no one is able to help me. What is worst that they
just hang up the phone. Pathetic custome care. Moreover I have
received the bill for the last month yestrday. Let me tell you that I
have no intention of paying this as I have not used the broadband
service. I will not pay for the lethargy and delay on your part. Even
today the customr care agent (Samvit) said that someone will be
calling us but failed to tell us when. This call was made at
approximately 5:30 in the evening.

Please resolve this issue as soon as possible. My airtel number is [protected].

Sumeet Jain
Ph No: [protected]
[protected]@gmail.com

Yesterday i participated in Airtel hfz competition and today when i was tagging friends, a message appeared
"We have experienced irregular traffic from this particular account. As a precautionary measure, this account will not be allowed to continue further. If you are the owner of this account and feel that it has been disabled erroneously, please write to us @ hfz_airtel{at}gmail.com"
and when i tried to mail them at [protected]@gmail.com it doesn't exists.
I m extremely disappointed with this, it doesn't appear as a fair play.

I had raised a cancellation request of Airtel Fixed Line and Broadband on the 22nd of July.
Request number is 1124204. I was informed that the cancellation would be processed within 7 working days. But the issue has not been addressed till date. I had raised a complaint against it and also escalated it twice. I have been forced to call to the customer care many times but to no avail. I am providing the airtel landline number and my personal mobile number here. Expecting a response now at least otherwise it would seem to be one of the worst customer service that I have come through.

Landline number: [protected]
mobile: [protected]

Thanks,
Nitish

sir,
my fixed-line with phone no[protected] & broadband wasn`t working from 22/6/2011 to 22/7/2011 . I also complained for this many times but the compalints didn`t went through and I was told that some changes in offices are being done. when i directly called for engineer namely Mr. Subhash Yadav and technician namely Sonu they were not able to solve the problem .and now i am charged for that period of time. I even complaint about this but they are not listening to my complaints.
so i beg to say that please do not charge the bill for the whole month my fixed line and broad band.

yours faithfully
Mr. K .K. Malhotra
jabalpur

p.s -the phone is under the name of mrs.damyanti malhotra .

Just now I posted and I am reposting because I gave wrong company/product name. As my complaint is not on mobile piece, I specified it again. My mobile number [protected], purchased in 2008.
I am receiving sms from numbers ex/[protected] for a friendly chat. When I reply INR 5 is being cut from my talk time. But sad is after some time a failure message isl being communicated. This is quite depressive, as I am loosing freinds.

In July or aug 2010 above service is on for my mobile and a talk time of Re1 per sms is being charged for that. After some time in 2011, these calls were stopped automatically. The above history is started in April2011 and problem as I expressed. I got very good belief on Airtel. Hope this problem may not stand among me and Airtel. I will be thankful if it is resolved.

sir ,
my mobile no. [protected]. i hv been subscribed to games mania subscription without my permission n hv been charged 45rs so far
please deactivate it asap
im not able to talk to customer care everytime i dial there it says dial *121# for more detailsir ,
my mobile no. [protected]. i hv been subscribed to games mania subscription without my permission n hv been charged 45rs so far
please deactivate it asap
im not able to talk to customer care everytime i dial there it says dial *121# for more detail

Sir,
On 13'th august,around 530pm Rs 55 was wrongfully deducted from my account.First of all 10p was cut.I was using Facebook(which is free on airtel under the new free basic facebook plan).I thought, they cut money for that. After 3 min,i again checked my mobile balance, they had deducted 55rs. I immediately registered my complaint.Complaint number:CBDCC[protected].The lady told me that airtel shall contact me by 17th august.

They didn't contact me, so i phoned them on 18th august during noon.

The first customer care executive told me that i had subscribed to some "cricket world cup score" pack.Then he also SAID THAT AIRTEL HAD CALLED ME AND TOLD ME THE REASON FOR CUTTING OF BALANCE ON 16TH AUG.This is totally a black lie, coz i hadn't received any call from them on 16th.Then i told him to transfer the call to his superior.

The man also repeated the same story.I told me that i can't surf even basic facebook on my simple LG mobile.He said that i had downloaded a "CRICKET GAME".If i had downloaded it by mistake, the game should be in that mobile, which isn't even there.I repeatedly told him, how's that possible? Then he bluntly told me that i can check that by ORDERING MY BILL AND CALL DETAILS,WHICH WOULD COST RS50 EXTRAAA. He also told that THEY HAD REFUNDED RS 1 TO ME.16th august mein call kiya thaa, he repeated that.What a lie?

Abb 55 rs bachane ke liye,mujhe 50 rs aur spend karna padegaa!

This is not the first time,airtel has done this to me. Last time, they had refunded Rs15(approx) to me.
In the last 3 years, they had deducted rs500 approx in the name "SUPPOSED DOWNLOADED PACKS".
This time, after my balance becomes zero, i am thinking porting Airtel to another provider.

Airtel have no concern or respect for their customers. Being in a customer service industry, there customer service is pathetic they have employees who can barely speak English and their level o[censored]nderstanding is so weak that they rather hire kids who go to good schools coz they know English far better. I'm not discriminating It's just that they don't understand what we are trying to say. I had cald up Airtel to check about the broadband plan which is when I realized I have the worst plan could have because Airtel without bothering to notify me changed my plan and the worst thing is that I have been paying 2500 every month for that plan since 4-5 months when I spoke to the person his reply was very vague "We just decided to change it" When I asked him as to why he didn't have an answer I also told him that We are in the 21st century how tough would it be for company related to the communications field to communicate that they have decided to change the plans for their customers via call, message, update it on the bill or send an email. It shocking to come to know after I called that It has been changed by airtel without any notification to their customers especially customers who have been loyal like me, I'm not happy that this is the way I'm treated for being a loyal customer of airtel he still didn't have an answer but I was glad I got to talk to him because he was last human in Airtel who could understand what I was saying as later I spoke to a lot of people who deserve to go live in another planet, there communication were even beyond animals understanding. Airtel did not have the courtesy to inform that they changed my plan without my permission I requested to talk to a manager which I never got I sent mail regarding where they said they were sorry for the inconvenience but they didn't have any solution for the problem so when I decided to change to new plan there reply was it would be effective from next month they expected me to use the pathetic plan I am currently in and also expect me to pay for it which did not make any sense. Since there was NO solution and I was frustrated with the service I gave up and decided not to bother. But I did send an email about the complaint also notifying them Also wanted to notify you that It is actually very hard to get through the customer service dept, after the phone rings there is no response. The
agents are releasing the calls or putting the customer back to the IVR and
disconnecting the line. When I called for the 3rd time I got to speak to a
human and I'm glad I got to speak to Saddiq.... Please get a system where the
agents can't beat the system as it's easy avoid calls but loyal employees like
saddiq would be suffering as they have to deal with a lot of customers and by
beating they are only putting their own friends into trouble as they have to
work harder. also got to speak to another human which really not happy about calling him that as he acts very cocky with me where he spoke about dreams when spoke about notifying me about change in my plan according to this it is my responsibility to call airtel and check frequently about my plan.

A week later I get this stupid mail from Airtel saying that I have used 100% of my speed ((which is 30GB BUT the fact is it is 50GB according to their new plan)) and the speed would come down henceforth when I cald the person argued about it but later when they realized their mistake he apologized again I requested to talk to manager as I was getting nowhere with these losers So I requested for a call. 3days later When I still didn't get a call I cald back and It is actually very tough to get through these lazy employees as they don't pick up. I sent another mail about it

Though I did try today to give guys one more chance to sort all the issues that have occurred due to your INCOMPETENCE. I got to speak to lady who could barely speak English and also hung up on me and then I got to speak a douche bag called Shivkumar who had me waiting for 10 minutes for transferring who also disconnected the line as well. I guess this is the latest trend in Airtel where hang up on customers again another display of how well your customer service is???? being in a customer service industry and having employees like Manjunath and Shivkumar who are a disgrace to any place they work!!!!!!! I would wanna to talk to a MANAGER If it's not a big deal

In conclusion, This is an example that Indian companies don't concentrate on customer as foreign markets do they ready to take our money and live of[censored]s but when it comes to delivering right results or solving the problems they are the worst. Please don't choose Airtel If you looking to solve all your problems by joining them YOUR LIFE WILL GET WORST!!!!!!

Registered Mobile No. Changed
I am NOT holder of airtel DTH, someone customer ID is [protected].and he not recharge his service but Airtel Customer Service send massage on my mobile. number is [protected]
as per their SMS, the number was indeed changed but i am suffring about massage. plz find right persone and send to same.thanks.air

My airtel prepaid no. is +91 [protected]

I just received a message saying "your account has been debited 10.00 INR for your last VAS download." I dont know what VAS stands for and what sort of service it is. I didn't downlonlod anything, I have not opted for any such schemes so why they have deducted amount from my account.
I Just want to ask how can the company deduct the amount from the balance without any intemation and more over the person didnt even apply for that service.
Hope they have a better explanation for this act.

Puja Roy

It's been advertised in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, by Airtel cellular company that i[censored]sers from Reliance or Uninor moves to airtel using mobile portability, they will be given with a special scheme of call rate, that's all India for 0.25/Per Minute. So I decided to follow the special scheme. Now when, one month is over Airtel has stopped providing promised call rate. Now if customer wants to take advantage of that scheme, they are suppose to pay 30.00Rs. per month. It's a purely chiting. Please help me on this.

I was using Reliance GSM ***** 05354 and moved to Airtel as conditions applied.

Thanks!

We have received unwanted messages from their numbers 54321 (Food ball updates). We never asked for updates for the same and understand that they have deducted for the updates from he balance. Kindly deactivate the updates from 54321

B.Sriram
Mobile No.[protected]

after 8 months of porting my sim (from reliance to airtel).airtel has blocked my sim.and giving an excuse of that you didn't port your sim in airtel you are a reliance user.don't port your sim in airtel they have no good facility for mobile number portability..

Hi,

I purchased Airtel Digital TV some time ago. Since this is ramzan month, we wanted to see the religious programs that are being telecasted in Peace TV. But I notice that the Airtel Digital TV does not have the Peace TV.

I would urge the Airtel to please provide Peace TV as we are a big fan of that.

Request you to kindly consider this and make appropriate steps as early as possible.

Looking forward for a positive response from your team.

Regards,
Muneeruddin N
Hyderabad

I am holder of airtel DTH, my customer ID is [protected]. I applied for change of my registered mobile number from [protected] to [protected] as per their SMS, the number was indeed changed but instead of [protected] a unknown number [protected] was registered. I contacted customer care in this regard and they as usual said it will be done but nothing is done till date I also called on the dealer through which connection was taken, he also said that problem is solved but still my number is shown as[protected] in account information, as a result of this I can not use SMS for any type of inquiry. I applied for this change only because I thought airtel number will be better than BSNL number for this purpose, now I regret my decision.
Will these airtel people listen ? by only saying yes sir yes sir on customer service does not solve problems, some practical work also needs to be done.

Anil Ghildiyal
Dehradun

many time we are connect to castumar care ,please stop video talkies but this survice is not stop my mobil no .my mobil no is [protected].so please stop above service&return my balance