| Address: Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
My contact details : Venkatasubramanian : [protected]
Ms.Venkateswari Arumugham (Nodal Officer) for Chennai Region -
Reliance
Mr.Boban C Mathew (Appellate Authority) for Chennai
Region - Reliance
Data Card Number : [protected]
Complaint Number :[protected]
Hi,
Around 20 days back, I had requested for a Reliance Pro 3 Data Connection
as part of a Corporate Promotion event by Reliance. I had insisted that
they provide me demo at my residence before I purchase the connection.
They came and showed demo (saravanan.[protected]@relianceada.com) and the
card seemed to be giving around 3 mbps.
So, I booked a conenction with Reliance for the Reliance Pro 3. I was
asked to purchase the Data Card (which is proprietary and hence unusable
on other networks, not even usable on the same network with a different number).
I bought the card and when I tried with the new card after the conenction
had been activated, the connection turned out to be extremely slow. I
called the persons who had been part of the Corporate promotion at my
office, and they told that the connection has been activated, and the
speed will improve. But the slow speed has continued, and I have never got
the same speed as shown to me in the demo with the demo card.
It seems that the demo was shown on a specific card, which had been
tweaked, especially to fool me into buying the connection.
Just to indicate, the Connection is supposed to be 14.7 mbps, but I have
not received even 10% of that speed ever. This points to malicious and
false promises by your company.
After trying to figure out the issue for many days, without any help being
provided by your agents, I contacted the Reliance Customer Care on 20
September, 2014 around 3:50 pm. After wasting around half an hour getting
me to restart my computer, install/uninstall setup and clearing cookies
and all that stuff, I was told that this will be rectified by the Back end
team and I was given the Complaint Number :
Data Card Number : [protected]
Complaint Number :[protected]
Details of Interactions :
Customer Care Number :[protected]
20 September, 2014 : 3:50 pm
Filed Complaint for Slow Speed and not gettung the service as promised.
Complaint Number :[protected]
22 September, 2014 : Nagaraj : 6:40 pm
Followed up call, still no call back from Back end team and complaint still pending
23rd September, 2014
Followed up, Complaint still not worked on.
24th September, 2014 : 2:00 pm
Followed up, complaint was still in Pending state and SLA already passed.
25th September, 2014 : Mary : 5:25 pm
Followed up to terminate the connection due to poor and inefficient service. Not ready to take termination request.
25 September, 2014 : Varun : 6:25 pm
Requested to close the connection due to deficiency in services.
Transferred to : Siddiqui : 6:30
Verified details after accessing the server.
Refused to close the conenction citing technical problem. When asked that they should take down a request to close the connection, refused to do so.
26 September, 2014 : Divya : 2:40 pm
Requested to close the connection and told clearly that as I am not getting the service from Reliance side on the complaint. Not ready to take the request.
26 September, 2014 : Neha : 2:51 pm
Requested to close the connection told clearly that the service is not as per the demo and was fooled by your agents. Told clearly to close the connection, but not ready to raise a cancellation request. When I threatened to escalate the issue through legal means, transferred to cancellation department.
Transferred to : Abbas : 2:56 pm
Says that Application is down so cannot take request for cancellation. When I told him that this has been status for three days, he said that he was not able to look at my Complaint status as application is down. But the first person in the chain (Neha) had checked the status and said that it was in Pending state. So, this was fraudulent information from Abbas.
27 September, 2014 : Sharif : 9:58 am
Looked at the complaint and again said it was in progress. When I told to close the connection, again transferred the call.
Waited for 20 minutes and no connection.
As per the TRAI website :
http://trai.gov.in/Content/faq_subcat_details/68_1_0.aspx
Q 4. What is the permissible minimum Broadband speed limit?
A. As per the regulation on “Quality of Service standards for Broadband Services” issued by TRAI on 6th May, 2006, a subscriber should get minimum 80% of the subscribed broadband connection speed from ISP Node to user.
I have never received even 25% of the 14.7 Mbps data speed that was the subscribed speed for the connection. So, as per the “Quality of Service standards for Broadband Services”, the connection I have been fooled into purchasing does not meet the Quality Standards set up by TRAI.
I wrote a series of mails to the Nodal Officer, the Appellate Officer, the Customer Care EMail ID and the Reliance Agent who provided me the number (Reliance ADA EMail ID)
Interestingly the Nodal Officer email ID mentioned on the TRAI websitte is wrong.
The Appellate Officer chhose to sleep on the mail, until I added the Pricipal Adviser in TRAI.
The Appellate Officer sent the follwoing communication :
Dear Customer,
This is with reference to your e-mail for Reliance Netconnect+ number
[protected].
We regret the inconvenience.
Your complaint has been registered with service request ID: UCS47402920 on
26/09/2014 at 05:55:57 pm and it will be resolved within 15 days from the
date of compliant registered.
The monthly rental is applicable as long as the services of your number
are active. During the suspension of the services, you will not be charged
for the monthly rental.
The services of your number will be suspended within 7 days. You will
receive a call from us within 7 days to process your request.
Assuring you of our best services always.
Thank you for choosing Reliance.
Regards,
Appellate Authority
Chennai
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As the deficiency of service is on the part of Reliance, I have replied back to this mail. It is unfair to ask the customer to pay for services when I am not getting what had been promised. Why should they take 7 days to suspend the services? Why should I pay for those 7 days. Why should I even pay from the time I lodged my first complaint on 20th September, espec ially when they did not do anything on the complaint.
I am considering taking this to the Consumer Court in Chennai.
Aug 13, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
Oct 09, 2014
Updated by dvenkat http://www.consumercomplaints.in/reliance-broadband-extremely-poor-service-and-wrong-nodal-officer-email-id-c945229
We have noted your complaint and the same has been forwarded to our customer service team. They will get in touch with you directly to resolve your concerns.
Regards,
Reliance Communications