How to disconnect Reliance Jio Fiber connection and get a refund?

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Hyderabad, India
ISP
Reliance Jio Gigafiber
Hey Forum,

I did not find a thread related to JioFiber refunds and looking at the plans they unveiled, I'm sure there will be many people looking for refund related Q&A soon. So, I'm creating one now to share my experience.

I have raised a request for deactivation of my JioFiber account sometime in first week of November. After couple of days, account was deactivated and ONT was collected after another two days.

I started recording a while technicians are disconnecting the router and take everything required off the wall as a proof that router is indeed been collected in working condition. These technicians also took my bank details on a piece of paper and told me that I will get a OTP for confirming bank details and that I have to tell them that OTP.

The OTP message has My bank acct number and IFSC code along with OTP. I called the technician back and told him the OTP.

Now the wait begins, meanwhile I kept calling CC-Number, pinging JioCare on Twitter regarding the refund. After 2 days of collecting ONT, I received an email from JioPay asking me to enter my bank details (again!!) to process the e-refund. And the email said, I will get refund only if the details are submitted from this link. The link requires one to upload a copy of bank account's cancelled cheque. I used different account this time and submitted details as I don't have chequebook for account that I gave to technicians.

Exactly after 15 days, Today, I received an email and a message that my refund is processed via NEFT and my account (that was given in e-refund link) will be credited in 72hours. After few more hours, my refund is credited successfully. (Yayyy!!)

During those 15 days, I was searching for "Jio Fiber Refund" topic in Twitter and the tweets made me worry more as almost all of them are complaints that they haven't received their refund -- Some even disconnected and returned their ONT 6 months back.

Overall, My experience with them has been good, I did not face any issues while getting connection nor with connection. I had 3 or 4 downtimes between 5 mins to 2 hours in the whole 6 months. And, Refund experience is also good. Although I would say, their CC is worst -- When asked about refund, Phone CC said I will get it in 15 days but JioCare Twitter said it'll take 60 days (uff!!). But, as I said, Experience has been good.
 
Just now ONT got collected. Technician said he will call me for OTP after reaching head office. No on the spot process for bank details but he got my bank details through whatsapp today morning. ☹️
 
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Still no update on refund. When I called the technician he said there was large amount of surrender going on, many people was surrendering on weekends so a delay in process he assured me that with in tomorrow afternoon my refund process will be initiated.

Looks like most people are not liking the plans and in my surrounding locality itself 20-30 connections surrendered.
 
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Apart from the plans, Upload Speed capping is the real bull shit. Plans aren't that bad after all. Moreover, they are now the victims of the super hype that they created in the trial period and people are now finally waking up from that utopian dream.
 
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Still no update on refund. When I called the technician he said there was large amount of surrender going on, many people was surrendering on weekends so a delay in process he assured me that with in tomorrow afternoon my refund process will be initiated.

Looks like most people are not liking the plans and in my surrounding locality itself 20-30 connections surrendered.

Did you, atleast, get OTP and gave it to the technician?
 
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Still no update on refund. When I called the technician he said there was large amount of surrender going on, many people was surrendering on weekends so a delay in process he assured me that with in tomorrow afternoon my refund process will be initiated.

Looks like most people are not liking the plans and in my surrounding locality itself 20-30 connections surrendered.
Good. Now they will introduce good plans.
 


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I don’t think they will change the plans for a while. They seem quite stubborn.
Even Airtel, their main rival has removed discounts and freebies. This is the era of increasing prices and reducing benefits.
It might take a year or two for this cycle to complete.
 
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Now another problem ☹️ jio technician has wrongly given my bank account number . Immediately called him to stop the transaction he told it will take 24Hrs to abort. He has typo in second digit of my account number. Guys how to cancel the transaction and initiate a new one ☹️☹️
 
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