| Address: Bangalore, Karnataka |
Hello,
I have been using Vodafone Post Paid Corporate Service Number since the last 8.5 Years and for a recent business trip to Saudi Arabia, I activated International Roaming Service (as I would be traveling recurringly in the next 4-6 months).
I activated to Vodafone International after landing in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and I have used it quite sparingly only during critical times during my 2.5 - 3 weeks stay (20th Dec - 8th Jan). Overall, in Riyadh, I would did a total of 3 Minutes of Outgoing + Incoming Calls along with Data of 14.5 MB on a couple of days for a few minutes (New Year & the returning Day) on WhatsApp.
After returning to India, within a day or two, my Data Services and my Outgoing got barred mentioning I crossed my Credit Limit (of Rs. 5600) with unbilled amount around Rs. 8500. Temporarily, I paid Rs. 2700 today for resuming it. However, when I discussed this with the Customer Care, they were mentioning that Data Usage is very high at Rs. 563 per MB since I didn't activate any special rental for this and could be a primary reason behind such amount.
A couple of points over here which are really concerning:
1) No one mentioned to me during activation that the price for Data Usage is as exorbitant as this. In that case, I wouldn't had put on Data itself
2) Rs 563/ MB comes to around 34 SAR/MB. This is VERY VERY HIGH compared to a Maximum of price of 0.5 SAR/MB of any International SIM/ Local Service Provider.
Finally, when I requested the Customer Care to apply a Roaming Plan (with a rental of a month) for that corresponding cycle retroactively as the Billing Cycle still didn't complete, he dismissed that possibility and asked me to pay the entire amount of 8500. I sent a mail to Corporate Care and they asked me to wait along with assuring me that they'll look into these details and the end bill wouldn't be so high but once the Bill is generated they repeated the same explanation which was more frustating.
With quite an amount of dis-satisfaction after using Vodafone for such a long period (with Gold status), I am posting a consumer complaint if some solution can be provided in this regard.