Aug 09, 2015
Updated by Evantikas Airtel - While on international Roaming, Airtel alloted the number to a different customer
Airtel: One of the worst and fake service providers … cheating on existing customers.. not sure how they will treat their new customers…
Me and my husband shifted to UK with an Airtel Number having international roaming activated on it. We were told that to continue the services, you need to have either an Outgoing Call or at least an SMS, to continue this Airtel Number. In case, there is no outgoing call/sms for continuous 3 months, the number will be disconnected. There was a monthly fee associated with this international roaming service too.
I checked my phone yesterday and there was no network in it. I tried every method to make it select the network (Automatic or Manual), but it was not selecting the network at all. I recharged it with Rs 200 to make it working as suggested by customer care, but that also didn’t work. Then I sent an email to the customer care who in reply told me that the number is been allotted to someone else last month... WTF… how is this possible….
I couldn’t believe them as I sent an SMS through that number on 19th May 2015. But Airtel simply allocated the number to someone else even before the completion of 3 months. 3 months from 19th May should be 18th Aug but the number was allocated to someone else on 20th July only. This is really unfortunate that being the number 1 subscriber in India, you are still cheating people. All my One Time Passwords were related to that number and I was receiving them till last month. What will i do now? They are saying that they can’t help and you need to come to India to submit the documents and you will be given a new number.
I am helpless now… what to do… I can’t do any transaction online… I have been cheated and given this kind of treatment without any fault…. I will certainly take this matter up.. and won’t let Airtel cheat on customers further like that…
This is with reference to your post dated 11th August 2015.
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