Complaint against malpractices of AIRTEL

Dear Sir,

I am using airtel DTH services from past 1.5 years and my customer ID is 3011219293. I am using two set top box. One is HD and another one is SD. However, I haven’t subscribed HD channels except for SONY six during FIFA world cup. At the time of purchase, sales guy convinced me that it is up to my choice to use HD channel. If I do’t want to subscribe HD channel, charge only will be levied for SD.

Recently, I have called AIRTEL customer care to get to know about the recharge and during conversation they told me that 2 HD channels are made compulsory to subscribe. No prior information has been shared through mail or messages or through written notice. The information, I got to know was sudden, during my conversation with customer care executive.

Regarding the changes made, I have talked to nodal officer, but answers were not satisfactory at all. She tole me the process of doing this is customer survey. For the same, I asked for the consumer survey report. Later on, she said that this change has been done under the airtel policy. My question is, how they can change certain norms and practices of charging the customer. Why, this was not made clear during the purchase that in future HD channels will be made compulsory and why always the company policies favours company’s profit. Now I forced to change the set box from HD to SD and I am sure that there will be no refund from AIRTEL team and they will be having all good reasons for it.

Please look into the matter and resolve the issue.


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4 responses to “Complaint against malpractices of AIRTEL”

  1. Dear Mr. Tiwari,

    This is with reference to your post dated 15 July 2014. We would like to acknowledge that we are working to address your concern as soon as possible. We will connect with you to get additional details, if required, to resolve the concern effectively.
    You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]

    Regards
    Saurav Ahlawat
    Airtel Presence (Airtel Customer Service Team)
    Bharti Airtel Ltd
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  2. Dear Mr. Tiwari,

    This is with reference to your post dated 15 July 2014. We would like to confirm that we have shared the resolution details with you.
    Should you require further information, please feel free to write to us at [email protected]

    Regards,
    Saurav Ahlawat
    Airtel Presence (Airtel Customer Service Team)
    Bharti Airtel Ltd
    [email protected]

    Connect with us 24X7 and we will be happy to assist you with a swift resolution to your queries on all our products and services
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  3. Brijesh Avatar
    Brijesh

    Dear Sir,

    I am using airtel DTH services from past 1.5 years and my customer ID is ID 3011182684. I am using a set top box. However, I haven’t subscribed HD channels except some timeenglish movie channels. At the time of purchase, sales guy convinced me that it is up to my choice to use HD channel. If I do’t want to subscribe HD channel, charge only will be levied for SD.

    Recently, I have called AIRTEL customer care to get to know about the recharge and during conversation they told me that 2 HD channels are made compulsory to subscribe. No prior information has been shared through mail or messages or through written notice. The information, I got to know was sudden, during my conversation with customer care executive.

    Regarding the changes made, I have talked to nodal officer, but answers were not satisfactory at all. He said that this change has been done under the airtel policy. My question is, how they can change certain norms and practices of charging the customer. Why, this was not made clear during the purchase that in future HD channels will be made compulsory and why always the company policies favours company’s profit. Now I forced to change the set box from HD to SD and I am sure that there will be no refund from AIRTEL team and they will be having all good reasons for it.

    Please look into the matter and resolve the issue.

  4. raghubir singh Avatar
    raghubir singh

    Mr tiwali, Did airtel resolve your issue. ?
    I am facing the same issue. Airtel is forcing me to subscribe a minimum of 2 HD channels when I do not need any. Despite repeated requests on phone and email, I have not got a satisfactory reply from airtel. They keep saying “you HAVE TO ” subscribe at least 2 HD Channels. I was surprised at this kind of behavior from them. Its like they are dictating terms to us on where and how we should spend out money. Pl let me know if you got a resolution from airtel. Thank you
    Raghubir

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