I am a customer of vodafone mobile services, [protected] Kerala Circle, would like to bring to your attention that this service provider forces caller tunes on customers, by just malicious programming their system.
On or about 1st March, 2008, i called my friend, while i was riding in the bus, and as the call was ringing, my finger accidently pressed a key. Immediately after the call was finished, i got a message from Vodafone that a sum of 30 rs, is deducted from my account, while i was having less than 4 rs. credit. Since then i could not make a call, as the balance showed -26 rs. i had to recharge 50 rs., to call the customer service who said i had opted for it and as such no credit can be allowed. I was charged another 15 rs. as service charges. Again my credit went to less than 1 rs. and as such i had to recharge 20 to make any calls. I immediately de activated, for which they charged another 3 rs, adding insult to injury.
Since I dint get any justified answer from the service provider i checked their web site, and I was shocked to see that just pressing star key while the called phone rings, it automatically copy the caller tune and the charges deducted. It is ridiculous, and i wonder, how the otherwise vigilant ministry of of telecom has not noticed this unethical trade practise? I believe, the DOT is required to approve all such marketing strategies of the service providers. I wish to provide the link below to the relevant portion of the Vodafone's condition for your information:
http://www.vodafone.in/Vodafone/PnS/Pages/Callertunes.aspx#copy
I request all the concerned to please look into this, and issue immediate instruction to stop this sort of trading in the telecom services under our M.R.T.P. Act. and also help to recover the deducted charges from Vodafone Firm.
Aug 14, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
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CUSTOMER CARE
PLS REFER TO MY VARIOUS COMPLAINTS OVER YR CUSTOMER CARE NO SOLUTION HS BEEN TAKEN. PLS TAKE URGENT ATTENTION TO RECTIFY MY BILL. THE DETAILS OF MY COMPLAINTS ARE:-
1. THE BILL OF MY TELEPHONE IS RS. - 152 AS ON DATE WHEREAS THIS CONNECTION IS PREPAID HOW THE EXCESS AMT HAS BEEN CLAIMED BY U WHEN THERE IS NO BALANCE AMT. IN MY MOBILE.
2. UR CUSTOMER CARE EXECUTIVE TOLD ME THAT INTERNET N OTHER FACILITY ARE USED IN THIS MOBILE BUT THERE IS NO FACILITITY ACTIVATED IN MY MOBILE
3. THERE IS 98 BONUS MIN. AVAILABLE WHICH IS NOT YET UTILIZED STILL THE BALANCE IS - Rs. 152,
4. MY BAL. BEFORE RS. -152 WAS RS. 78. IT MEANS U HV CHARGES RS. 230 EXTRA.
5. CALLER TUNE HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY ACTIVATED BY U WITHOUT MY CONSENT.
6. THERE IS ALWAYS INTERFERENCE AND CORSS CONNECTION IN MY MOBILE.
PLS CORRECT MY BILL IMMDLY WITHIN 24 HOURS OTHERWISE I WILL BE LODGE AN FIR FOR MISUSING MY PHONE WITH THE HELP O[censored]R DEPTT.
PS: KINDLY DEACTIVATE GPRS SYSTEMS IMMDLY FROM MY FOLLOWING MOBLES [protected] - POST PAID CORPORATE CONNECTION[protected] - PRE PAID[protected] - PRE PAID AD ON CONNECTION ANY AMOUNT DEDUCTED ON A/C OF GPRS SYSTEM FROM THIS DATE WILL BE YR RESPONSIBILITY. PLS REVERT EXCESS CHARGES I.E. RS. -153 ON MY PHONE NO. [protected]. RDS N HAPPY NEW YEARS.
FM RAJ KUMAR
D 97 MMTC COLONY
MEHRAULI ROAD