[Resolved]  Airtel — Prepaid service - SIM replacement is not working

Address:

Airtel Store Mathikere, 1st Phase, Unnis Plaza, 81/9, Near Kanthi Sweets, Gokula 1st stage, HMT Layout, Yeswantpur, Bangalore

My wife requested for SIM change for airtel prepaid number on Saturday Sep 3rd 2022 at 11:45 AM in Airtel office Mathikere Bangalore, since there are frequent signal issues with existing SIM. They took Rs 50, Aadhar card copy and photo and provided a new SIM and said that new SIM will be activated after 4 hours and old SIM will be deactivated. This did not happen even at 5 PM. We again visited Airtel office at 5 PM on the same day. They said there was a technical problem and before night new SIM will be active. We checked on Sunday (Sep 4th) morning and found that still old SIM is active and new SIM is not working. We visited Airtel office again on Monday morning. They said they escalated the issue and it will surely get rectified by end of the day. Finally today morning (Tuesday Sep 6th) they re-took the Aadhar card picture and photo and again raised a new request for SIM change. Even now (nearly 5 PM) old SIM is active. They say until old SIM gets deactivated new SIM will not work. They are still checking on why this problem is occurring. Why Airtel is not able to resolve a simple SIM change issue? Why we need to visit office 4 times for this simple reason? There is no way we can raise a complaint with Airtel customer care as well. They are saying only this particular number is getting stuck. Please help in resolving this problem. We need the new Airtel SIM to work properly without any further delay.