Airtel Problem · DIGIT-ARC

I was calling my mother, who is admitted to a hospital, as I needed to get medicines...when I call my mother I first had to listen to some promo offers for 40seconds b4 it starts dialing...when I question the customer care they say it is not possible to remove those promo offers when I call...is this legal 4 a service provider to impose promos when I need to make urgent call?

which one do you use? prepaid. And which city? I am in Delhi with prepaid (now converted to postpaid) and i don't get to listen to crappy adverts each time i make a call.

Why would they do that. Is your balance low or something. they do spend a few seconds for that sometimes but not on advertisements.

SMS "STOP" to 121

that is a strange thing. i am currently in Chennai and have tamilnadu prepaid connection. i am not even receiving sms ads, let alone getting promo before each call. i am on student pack.

you are lucky man, may be a computer error. airtel will soon oblige you :-D

i've noticed that while making the first call after keeping my phone idle [switched off] for sometime ,i have to go through an announcement first before the call gets connected

often the announcement is the account settings report like

" this call cannot be completed ;call diverted to network congestion;dialled no is not allowed by the allowed lists" and some other crap.....

often the statements contradict itself

ilugd said:
which one do you use? prepaid. And which city? I am in Delhi with prepaid (now converted to postpaid) and i don't get to listen to crappy adverts each time i make a call.

Why would they do that. Is your balance low or something. they do spend a few seconds for that sometimes but not on advertisements.

I live in Mumbai. I have a lifetime prepaid connection & a post paid connection (one for me & another for my wife) on my prepaid the balance is never below Rs.150 as I have airtel mobile office (i.e. internet conenction) which I use a lot so I don't let it go below Rs.150 ever.

Both the prepaid & postpaid connections give me this stupid voice response advert about winning a ticket to fly to Hongkong.

K

Even i live in mumbai and use airtel prepaid and my balance also never goes below 50 rupees as even i use mobile office a lot and have to keep the balance above 50 for mobile office to work. But i never heard those adverts till now.

A

Go to Airtel site and fill the "Do not Disturb" form there. You will not get any calls or SMS thereafter.

...is this legal 4 a service provider to impose promos when I need to make urgent call?

Ofcourse this is not correct for a service provider to bug u this way.Afterall they r not providing u this service for free.But strange to hear that airtel is doing this sort of a stuff.

Next time u call up 121 tell them that if this dosent stop i will lodge a complaint in consumer forum.............

i have tried this for more serious problems, trust me it works, try out.

send "N" to 170 to stop annoying sms

rollcage said:
send "N" to 170 to stop annoying sms

It is NOT an sms it is a VRU (Voice Response Unit) pitching for some kind of a promo just b4 I dial any of my family or friends...and it is only happening when I call another Airtel connection.

**** them

caleb said:
It is NOT an sms it is a VRU (Voice Response Unit) pitching for some kind of a promo just b4 I dial any of my family or friends...and it is only happening when I call another Airtel connection.

I have a postpaid connection .. after sending this .. I no longer receive any annoying sms

i dont even got this type of callls

M

yupeven i hear this **** sometimes whilecallin in mumbai...i guess we need to regsiter to do not disturb to overcome thi gimmick.......btw wht r the chargesof mobile office for postpaid????on 121 they say we r frm prepaid dept as my cell is prepaid..hence they dont know the charges.......

Well I am in B'lore using Airtel Post Paid connection and I've never heard any such promo's while calling...maybe they've tried it in Mumbai first

if u hear such a promo then disconnect d call n try again.... u wont hear it this time...

prepaid call center number is 123 i guess

i am in blore using prepaid airtel and i havnt come through such nuisance. i only hear it when i have low balance...

-SUDE

balance less and validity ant to expire = promos

D

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