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Swati924
from Mustafabad, Haryana
Mar 14, 2018
Nov 2, 2023
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temporary suspension of outgoing facility

Address: 185131

Despite repeated attempts at trouble shooting and even changing the sim i continue to be unable to make any outgoing calls from my number. Whenever i try to make a call i get the ivr tellingbme that outgoing facility on this number is temporarily suspended call 121 for more info.
Customer support executives seem clueless about why this is happening. My guess is that it is a glitch in one of their servers.
Clearly airtel needs...
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priya info
from Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Mar 14, 2018
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Hi, i ported out my aircel postpaid number [protected] to airtel on march 1, 2018 but the airtel sim is not yet activated. I approached airtel care centres, but they didn't have any idea about this thing, and asked me to wait for a week. I waited for a week, but it s not working at all. And its already 14 days.

I need the same number, i want the reason for why it is not activated and what s the issue.

Try to solve the problem and activate the sim or provide other ideas to get the same number
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    Faizan Sharif
    from Mumbai, Maharashtra
    Mar 14, 2018
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    Address: Mumbai City, Maharashtra, 400095

    Hi team,

    My network provider is airtel.

    I own 3 connections from airtel about a year. The parent number which i use is [protected]. This is upgraded to a plan of 1999/- in which 2 add-on phone numbers were free.

    I made this request in october 2017 by contacting customer care. It was communicated over the phone that the consolidation request is been taken but i am charged every month for each connection.

    I spoke to gallery and care the solution offered every month was please pay the bill and we will process the reques nothing happen. Every month i spoke to care & gallery same story in loop. Even wrote to nodal officer just take assurance.

    I am fed up with the fraud and need your assistance.

    Regards,
    Faizan sharif
    [protected]
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      Mahalingam Munivenkatappa Challa
      from Bengaluru, Karnataka
      Mar 14, 2018
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      Address: Bangalore, Karnataka, 560016

      Plan changed in jan 18 on your own. Complaint lodge on 3.3.18 vide no.93864798. Request for email reply not met with. Promised to revert back to the original plan & adjust excess payment not done. Whereas, again sent sms asking me to pay rs.706.48 instead of rs.245 by 31.3.18
      When contacted again on 14.3.18 and asked about the fate of my complaint i have been informed that the complaint was closed, upcourse, without my consent. I talked to mr. Chandramouli and later the call was transferred to ms lavanya without any fruitful results. The game is blaming each other. She said she will inform the backend team.
      I need detailed email reply. Please solve the problem and facilitate with email reply. Henceforth i will not make any payment until the problem is solved.
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        Eva Navin
        Mar 14, 2018
        Nov 2, 2023
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        Address: 0000
        Website: AIRTEL

        I am your valued customer since long. I am residing in uae. Whenever i am reaching india.. I will recharge and use the number. I have no other connection. I have given my number to all my contacts.. Bank transactions etc.. If i am away more than 3 weeks, i used to make a call from uae, so as to activate my accounts.
        I left kerala on dec 7th last year.. I forgot to activate before march 7th... Remembered on march 10th only. Then, they say... Your call cannot be connected... May i know the reason? Can i get back the connection? Please get it corrected.. I am reaching kerala next month. How can i use the number again?
        Other network providers are providing solutions to get uninterrupted connection.. What i have to do, so that next time my connection will not be interrupted.
        My cable connection also, is airtel.
        I dont want to lose my number, or want get another connection. Please help me.
        I am ready to pay for 1 year interrupted service
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          Khanindra Das
          from Guwahati, Assam
          Mar 14, 2018
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          Website: Indian consumer complaint

          I had recharged last on 15/2/2018 accordingly a msg received as next due as 16/3/2018. Unfortunately on 12/03/2018 i have received another msg and mentioned therein my due date as 13/03/2018. On enquiry i come to know that i have subscribed a new chenel 192 wich is totally baseless. Same chenel is not activated also. So please look into the matter and rectify.
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            Ankit K. Goyal
            from Jaipur, Rajasthan
            Mar 14, 2018
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            Address: Kota, Rajasthan

            My name is ankit goyal. My airtel mobile no. Is [protected] activated at kota (Rajasthan).in december month i am activated service 84 days data services of rs. 510/-. At that time my main balance was rs. 140/- balance in main balance. After 84 days my main balance rs. 140/- is also deducted in my account. Please credited this main balance account.

            Thanks and regards,

            Ankit goyal
            [protected]
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              Gunish Sodhi
              Mar 14, 2018
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              Address: New Delhi, Delhi, 110064

              In the morning i recharged my phone.
              Recharge was successful of rs 448. The transaction id :[protected].
              When i checked my airtel app nothing is reflecting.
              I rung up customer care number. The lady who answered the call was not helpful and i think she is not qualified for the job.
              My call was transferred to supervisor name : rahul.

              He was also pathetic. He was also not sure. First he told me to wait for 1 hour you will get the confirmation text of the recharge successful.
              Second :the payment is in process. Third : the money will be refunded back in the a/c within 7- 10 days. It is not acceptable. Then i got a call back from airtel. They lady told me rahul provided me wrong info. If the supervisor is providing wrong information. You are dealing with customer by misleading them and providing them wring information.

              I want my mobile number :[protected] to be recharged with the amount of rs 448.

              I got to more resqus id's:
              I) conrc [protected]
              Ii) conrc [protected]

              Pls revert me back on my mail id :[protected]@gmail.com
              As well on my mobile number :[protected]
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                Thedharm
                from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
                Mar 14, 2018
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                I have ported my aircel number to airtel on 7 march 2018 but still it sim card is not working and showing invalid sim. Even to day on 14.03.2018 sim is not working. When i have gone on network settings then it is showing not registered. I am using this number as my official number and now i am in very trouble please solve my problem. I is very urgent.
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                  arnabbandyo
                  from Tinsukia, Assam
                  Mar 14, 2018
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                  Suddenly received an sms at 4 am in the morning confirming videopindw service activation on my airtel postpaid mobile number [protected] @30/- for 7 days with a threat of auto renewal. It asked to send an sms to some number for deactivation, which i did. But why was it auto activated without my consent in the first place and why wouldn't they refund the amount charged? This kind of auto activation of services and charging for that was the only reason i shifted from bsnl to airtel. Is it time to move again?
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                    niraj chavan
                    from Pune, Maharashtra
                    Mar 13, 2018
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                    Address: Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 431003

                    Hello sir, my name is niraj chavan i was about to call me a complaint about the airtel service. About airtel store employee, i was going through the airtel store for a few days, my father's airtel number was linked to aadhaar but the airtel store's employee advised me to get a transfer in my prepaid connection into postpaid and then deactivate my father's airtel sim and said that your sim will be started in a while but my father's sim deactivate after that, then at least the airtel store i talked to them but still the employee of the airtel store did not activate my father's sim. I request you to activate my father sim and to any of the customers of aurangabad of maharashtra, of employee do not give bad service
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                      shubhodeep mukherjee
                      from Bengaluru, Karnataka
                      Mar 13, 2018
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                      Address: 560077
                      Website: www.airtel.in/airtel-secure-terms

                      Dear Airtel,

                      I have been made to understand by CRO - Sri Venkatesh that my claim for an accidental damage to my phone(because the phone dropped accidentally) is invalid due to the following reasons -

                      The definition of an accident is "someone pushing me"; "getting hit by a car" etc.

                      My phone fell from my hand accidentally (I am sure no one drops the phone intentionally because we can't live without our phones nowadays and a broken screen is quite inconvenient; if I was Fantastic 4 I would have stretched my hand long enough to control it)

                      Airtel is not responsible because they show in the add that someone gets pushed by someone and breaks the screen (one of the adds, airtel has around 2 or 3)

                      According to the T&C page you have proclaimed the following - https://www.airtel.in/airtel-secure-terms

                      2.4 Accidental Damage means Physical or Liquid damage to the Insured Product due to drop or collision of the Insured Product or any object falling on the Insured Product, caused due to accidental external means. It is that damage which occurs due to external causes that are not under the users direct control

                      Please explain or refund or change your terms and conditions and DO NOT MISLEAD PEOPLE WITH CHEESY ADVERTISEMENTS
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                        stanisjj
                        Mar 13, 2018
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                        broadband connection shifting issue

                        Address: Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, 562125

                        Hi all,

                        I have been using airtel broadband connection for the last two months and it has been decent. I had to shift my residence recently which is around 2 km from the current location. I checked with airtel team and they confirmed the airtel broadband feasibility and the new location.

                        I raised the shifting request ticket with airtel and provided the details and address of the new residence. They confirmed...
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                        Ramesh Sugumaran
                        from Puducherry, Puducherry
                        Mar 13, 2018
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                        Address: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600062

                        I switched from aircel postpatd to airtel postpaid.I received message for televerification by dialing 59059 from Airtel. I inserted sim and tried severa times in basic as well as android mobiles swithching trays and but the network is not activated and it is showing "emergency call only". i have removed the sim and checked many times, also tired manual network search, but it is showing all other network apart from airtel. but it been 3 days i have been messaged for activation, still there is no tower at all. Everytime when i concact to the airtel person they are saying it will get rectified and but no result. I am really frustrated and disapppointed choosing airtel. I feel Airtel is not dependable and i should have better selected other networks. Really pathetic.
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                          UKDAS
                          from Kolkata, West Bengal
                          Mar 13, 2018
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                          Address: Kolkata, West Bengal, 700093
                          Website: www.airtel.in

                          As per your cashback offer on airtel payment wallet 01st-31mar18, i had made transaction for 175.00from my wallet acct [protected] for recharge of airtel prepaid no on 05mar18 and 236.00 for postpaid bill on 09mar18.
                          In spite of my repeated reminders the due cashback not yet credited to my account. The same was brought to the notice of airtel grievances officer and principal nodal officer but no resolution given as of date.
                          This is most unfortunate as per customer service id concerned. Hope
                          I would get a urgent redressal.

                          Uk das
                          M [protected]
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                            Wildcraft
                            from Bengaluru, Karnataka
                            Mar 13, 2018
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                            Address: 560091

                            I have not activated any service even though my currency have been deducted. It's been 3 days since the currency have been started to deduct. And the airtel customer care is also not responding properly. Please let me get a solution for this as soon as possible. I need refund as it's a huge amount. I have been using airtel since a very long time this never happened before. Please make sure sure the problem gets solved soon and please refund it.
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                              Aasim F Hussain Khan
                              from Chennai, Tamil Nadu
                              Mar 13, 2018
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                              Address: Bangalore, Karnataka, 560072

                              I wanted to upgrade my sim to 4g, so had ordered a 4g sim online and recieved it on 08/03/2018 (Thursday).

                              After receiving the sim, i sent the new sim number to 121. I got a message that sim will be activated shortly.

                              Since then, both the sims (Old and new) are not working. Its been 6 days and i am not able to make a call. I am really irritated. This not the way to serve your customer.

                              Please help me on this.
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                              Today at 12:55pm Rs.35/- has deducted as VEMES charges from balance mobile no [protected] as these services is not activated my me so please refund the same and apply DND
                              My Airtel Bank accounts mpin has been blocked since 3 weeks . Tried to reset with Name on Aadhar Card but its saying Invalid .

                              It asked me to Visit Airtel Banking point . When I visit 3 points they are saying they don’t know how to ublock my Account.

                              Please help me.
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                                Arun Booram
                                from Bhongir, Telangana
                                Mar 13, 2018
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                                Address: 500044

                                This is just to inform you that i am getting call from international number. This sim card is on my brother's name. So i got a call before some days so i received, but when i got to know that it's wrong number i disconnected that. And after that +441 +361 no, again i got from these 2 numbers. I avoided 2-3 times. Yesterday n ight i got messege in my watsapp also with number [protected]. So i tried to talk in coustomer care and inform them but i couldn't. Hoping for your response
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                                This is just to inform you that i am getting call from international number. This sim card is on my brother's name. So i got a call before some days so i received, but when i got to know that it's wrong number i disconnected that. And after that +441 +361 no, again i got from these 2 numbers. I avoided 2-3 times. Hoping for your response
                                Airtel broadband service is not provided in the aadrsh nagar region why i dont know as i have 5 airtel connections of cellphone but no broadband why ?
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                                  Deepak Panangatt
                                  from Mumbai, Maharashtra
                                  Mar 13, 2018
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                                  I just recharged 219rs through airtel.in website which is said to offer 1.4gb/d for 28 days. And i got an sms showing i got the offer. Then i check my net balance and it shows nothing at all. I contacted customer care executive he forward call to a senior lady all i get in response was send my complaints to an email id. And she said email id while i was talking. Please respond to this issue asap and my phone number is [protected].
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                                  Ported no from aircell airtel.mob no [protected]. Received message from ATDSA on 1.3.2018 at 11:26saying " Your services have been set please restart your hand set. Even after doing so sim not getting activated.sim no is[protected]U.
                                  Please restore the service
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                                  Shame Airtel shame...
                                  Hi, I am Babul Sahoo having Airtel number [protected] recently tried to contact Airtel customer care executive about my problem regarding VAS . Airtel customer care executive Mr Hrusikesh Muni picked up my call and misbehaved very badly. I think he doesn't have manner.
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                                    babsy81
                                    from Pune, Maharashtra
                                    Mar 13, 2018
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                                    I used to have a number "[protected]" on my name a year back. I have ported that number out of airtel to vodafone and later i disconnected that number 6 months back.
                                    Now am getting calls from that number to all my contacts. There's a female voice on the other end and she's calling all my relatives and disturbing them. I need to get some immediate actions taken for that phone number as the owner is using my personal details to contact people.
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                                    Pos data not found my airtel lappu sim...
                                    I'm not satisfied with outlet service...
                                    Today I went to airtel outlet for duplicate SIM card charge is Rs.25 but they are taking Rs200 per SIM card why they are charge extra Rs75
                                    I ask them give me Rs200 bill which I'll paiy they won't give
                                    My simcard lost please my number returns [protected]
                                    Sim not working till last 10 hours ago n i m take a action against airtel Frustrated with no response to your complaints. Companies/Businesses not paying attention to your complaints.

                                    Don't just sit, it's time to speak up.
                                    Plz do something
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