Problems, promises and frustration with Airtel Broadband #airtelsucks

anairteluser

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Hello,

I stand before you guys in a hope to solve the persistent problems I've been facing in the past few months.

1) I clear my bills through ECS. But they have charged me 50 bucks for late fee. It turns out that it was because of a bank strike. But isn't it the responsibility of Airtel to refund the amount or to intimate the customer at the least?

2) There was a duplication in billing in the May months bill and I had to pay 2x of my bill and they say everything is correct and there is no discrepancies in the billing. I have the transaction id, Message from Airtel to my mobile, E-mail from airtel and my credit card statement contradicting their statement.

3) They disconnected my phone line for a day long last week under the grounds that I didn't pay my bills properly.

4) They sent a person to my place demanding Feb months bill last week which was promptly paid through ECS. When I called 121 one guy told that there might be a problem with Jan/Feb months bill (bearing the fact that this is June) and it was the case for most of the people who opted for ECS while the floor manager denied this and promised to resolve this by today 1 P.M[ June 16].

5) Frequent disconnection problem persists for more than 2 years and no avail after repeated complaints. Today a guy from Airtel came and attributed it to a copper cable wiring problem[Finally, kudos to Airtle].

6)Their nodal officer, care.tamilnadu support center mailboxes are unresponsive as usual though a auto generated message stated that they will get back in 24 hours. I sent an email to care.tamilnadu on 9th June and to their nodal officer on 12th June(I'm sure the reply after a week will start with a Due to technical problems...). I've sent an email to their appellete officer now, though I'm not getting my hopes high.

7) Today I called 121 and that floor manager whom I spoke with yesterday was busy for more than an hour and the agent took up a complaint again. I demanded to ask him or anybody who has the authority to contact me at 8:00 P.M today (this is 7 hours more that what they had promised me).

8) And last but always not the least FUP. They claimed it is a TRAI rule but i can't find anything there and worst I didn't even get an alert message. And the funny part was that the floor manager of the Billing department said that only because of the FUP they have doubled our speeds (in my case 512Kbps to 1 Mbps) and after that FUP limit it will be halved(ie 512 Kbps). Which means that this is value addition services while Airtel's home page says that it will be downgraded to 256Kbps. This also means that these people even the one who is in charge are woefully ignorant and don't even understand the problem.

I have decided to take these unethical ******** down with all my might. If I don't get any reply from their appellete officer by tomorrow would it be appropriate for me to send a lawyers notice to them. Considering a whooping 11140 complaint (a conservative figure from consumercomplaints.in) would this be even an effecient move or I'm thinking of creating a network which partially I've at Life with Airtel .

I need your help guys. Please assist me so that we can teach these money mongers a lesson.

Regards,
Airtel User
 
Today I got a reply from Airtel nodal officer guys.

With reference to your mail and telephonic discussion with Ms Sowmya.K, we wish to reiterate that against Invoice Number 8******** for the period 26/01/2010 to 25/02/2010 there was an outstanding payable of Rs 1212 which was due for payment on 16-FEB-2010 . Same was processed to bank as Standing Instructions was opted by you. Same was reversed from the bank with the reason "Credit Card validity expired".

Look closely, the billing cycle itself ends on 25/02/2010 but the payment due is on 16-FEB-2010 or 16/02/2010. Has Airtel really lost it's sanity?
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We all know that they were an inconsistent company in general. But lying? I thought they were pretty darn good. In my telephonic conversation they told that it was a reversal from all the banks to almost all the customers. Now they are blaming it on me. And for the record my credit card expired on the month of April. This clearly nails down their lies.


And Mr. Mittal should consider investing money in corrective lenses for his people. Most of them suffer from myopia and selective amnesia.


They have started to fumble guys. There is something going on which they are not ready to give in writing. It's just about time to nail these sons of bi***** down.
 
mail your issues to airtel presence guys. and hope to get ANY form of response. this is actually the new face of airtel broadband. they do not care. period.
 
I was and airtel customer untill recently i shifted and was told that there was no availability at the new location it took them more than a week to confirm this....and suddenly i get a call after a month asking y i discontinued the service and they say they who said there's no availability !!!
 
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