Tuesday 19 June 2012

Re: [www.keralites.net] Beware of mobile companies

 

എന്‍റെ ഒരു സുഹൃത്തിന്റെ അനുഭവം. ഉദേശം എട്ട് പത്തു വര്‍ഷം മുന്‍പാണ്.ഇന്കമിങ്ങിനും ഔട്ട്‌ഗോയിങ്ങിനും കാശുള്ള സമയം.

അദേഹം മൊബൈല്‍ ഫോണ്‍ സാമാന്യം നന്നായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ആളാണ്; ഇന്കമിങ്ങും ഔട്ട്‌ഗോയിങ്ങും സമാസമം. ഒരു പ്രൈവറ്റ് കമ്പനിയുടെ ഫോണാണ് ഉപയോഗിച്ചിരുന്നത് അദേഹത്തിന് സാധാരണ ബില്‍ പതിനായിരത്തിനു അടുത്താണ്.

അങ്ങനെയിരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ അദേഹത്തിന് ഒരു വലിയ ബില്‍ കിട്ടി. വിഷണ്ണനായ അദ്ദേഹം പലരോടും പറഞ്ഞു. എല്ലാവരും പറഞ്ഞു പരാതി കൊടുക്കാന്‍.

അവസാനം ഞങ്ങളിരുന്നു ബില്‍ വിശകലനം ചെയ്തു. അപ്പോള്‍ മനസിലായത് ദിവസവും ഇരുപതു മണികൂര്‍ ഔട്ട്‌ ഗോയിംഗ് വിളിച്ചാല്‍ മാത്രം വരാവുന്ന ബില്ലാണ് വന്നിരിക്കുന്നത്.

അദ്ദേഹം കമ്പനിയോട് കാള്‍ ലിസ്റ്റ് ചോദിച്ചു.

കമ്പനിയില്‍ നിന്നും ആളു വന്നു, സംസാരത്തിന് ശേഷം ഒരു പുതിയ ബില്‍ കൊടുത്തു. ആദ്യബില്ലിന്റെ ഏതാണ്ട് മുക്കാല്‍ വരും പുതിയ ബില്‍. ദിവസം പന്തണ്ട് മണിക്കൂര്‍ വിളിച്ചാല്‍ വരുന്ന ബില്‍.

അദ്ദേഹം വീണ്ടും കാള്‍ ലിസ്റ്റ് ചോദിച്ചു.

വീണ്ടും കമ്പനിയില്‍ നിന്നും ആളു വന്നു, സംസാരത്തിന് ശേഷം ഒരു പുതിയ ബില്‍ കൊടുത്തു. ആദ്യബില്ലിന്റെ ഏതാണ്ട് പകുതി വരും പുതിയ ബില്‍. ദിവസം എട്ട്പത്ത് മണിക്കൂര്‍ വിളിച്ചാല്‍ വരുന്നത്ര ഒരു ബില്‍.

ഇപ്പോള്‍ കയില്‍ മൂന്ന്‍ ബില്ലുകള്‍. അദ്ദേഹം അറുത്ത്‌ മുറിച്ചു പറഞ്ഞു, മൂന്നു ബില്ലുകളുടെയും കാള്‍ ലിസ്റ്റ തരാതെ ബില്ലടക്കില്ല എന്ന്; വേണമെങ്കില്‍ കോടതിയില്‍ പോകാം എന്ന്.

ബില്‍ പ്രശ്നം അവിടെ തീര്‍ന്നു. എട്ടു പത്തു വര്‍ഷം കഴിഞ്ഞു. കമ്പനി ഇതുവരെ മിണ്ടിയിട്ടില്ല. (ആ കമ്പനി ഇപ്പോള്‍ വേറൊരു പേരില്‍ ഉണ്ട്)

അദ്ദേഹം ബി എസ് എന്‍ എലിന്റെ ഒരു പോസ്റ്റ്‌ പെയ്ഡ്‌ പ്ലനെടുത്തു. പ്രതിമാസ ബില്‍, അന്ന്, രണ്ടായിരം മുതല്‍ മൂവായിരം വരെ.

എപ്പടി ??

ജേക്കബ്‌ ജോസഫ്‌
(ഞാനൊരു ബി എസ് എന്‍ എല്‍ ഉപഭോക്താവ് മാത്രമാണ്.)


From: Ramakrishnan T.S. <jigguram@yahoo.com>
To: "Keralites@yahoogroups.com" <Keralites@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Beware of mobile companies

Hi Friends,

I was also experiencing lot of problems from the Private Operators in Chennai. They also send exorbitant bills. Every month I have to fight with them on this matter. Frustrated, now I shifted to BSNL both mobile and broadband. Now the bills are reasonable and accurate with the transparency.

Whatever said and done Govt. organization is better than so called modern Private ones.

This is my experience.

Ramakrishnan (jigguram)
From: ramakrishnan chenampulli <ramakrishnan_c@live.com>
To: Keralites <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 17 June 2012 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: [www.keralites.net] Beware of mobile companies

email sent by me to reliance. be careful while taking reliance connection.

To Reliance Communications (broadband@relianceada.com)

Subscription ID: 326882764015/Tel:30226255

I am residing in Annanagar West, Chennai and have taken a Reliance Broadband connection with above ID.

This service is unavailable for the sixth day today. It went off around noon on Tuesday, i.e. 5th June 2012. Following are some of the recorded complaints:

(1) 180732177 at 3 PM on 8/6/12 (2) 2805503253 at 9.35 AM on 9/6/12 (3) 180821778 at 7.30 AM on 10/6/12

There are many calls which are not recorded as customer care refused to allot complaint number. Even at 3.30 PM on 10/6/12 they refused to take a complaint. Even on 9/6/12 evening the customer care executive refused to give a complaint number. Again on 10/6/12 and at 9AM on 11/6/12 customer care executive refused to record a complaint and allot a number.

On 8/6/12 a target time was fixed at 10.30 PM which was not met. Again on the morning of 11/6/12 the time set was 4.45 PM which also passed without any result. Telephone also did not work during the period 5/6/12-12.6.12.

Customer Care says this disruption is due to upgradation of service while the local technicians say server is down and/or cable is cut by road repair people. Whatever be true, a delay of 7 days is unacceptable by subscribers. Whatever be the truth reasons advanced for such long delays for upgrade and/or repairs seems to be suspect. What is the need for such an upgrade giving subscribers so much inconvenience?

Finally the fault was rectified at 9 PM on 12.06.12. On 13.6.12 there was connection problems in the morning. The PC connects to reliance website but other sites were not available. Normal service is available from 14.6.12.

This is the second time in last two months that Reliance Broadband was not available for more than 36 hours. But this one from 5-12 June is the longest outage in the recent times. Even before the service used to become unavailable for a few minutes to less than one hour but I did not complain about it.

It appears Reliance is employing incompetent people. Subscribers suspect that the real problem was not cable cut/upgrade but something else which the company does not want to disclose.

I request Reliance to give rebate in rental for 8 days from 5th to 12th June 2012 during which period the internet service + telephone was completely faulty.

S. Ramakrishnan
16.06.2012


To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
From: krishnank71@yahoo.in
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:41:39 +0800
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Beware of mobile companies

This is very true.We also had similar experience from reliance mobile.We had to run nearly a dozen times to service centre to get it disconnected.This is truely a harrowing experience.We had to discard the SIM and go for airtel SIM.Now airtel persons are also doing a similar acts.TRAI can introduce some type of fine for such acts of theirs if they are found guilty.


From: Thomas Mathew <thomasmathew47@hotmail.com>
To: Keralites <Keralites@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 21 May 2012 11:04 AM
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Beware of mobile companies

Dear All

This message is to warn all mobile customers about the dubious means the companies adopt to fleece money from the customers. The incident quoted is regarding Reliance communications and I feel that they may not be alone in adopting such tactics to steal our hard earned money.

I got a reliance mobile recharged in the first week of the month. A few days later an SMS came that a caller tune has been downloaded for which there would be charges. After a day got another message that an English music has been downloaded for which another Rs 15 has been charged. On the third day yet another message came that CRBT services haven been subscribed for which the monthly subscription is Rs.30.( I do not know what is CRBT). As I have not asked for any of these downloads/services, I spoke to their customer service and asked for an explanation. The person sitting there was evasive and gave the reply that I might have accidently pressed some button to download these things. When I shouted back at him that no person in senses can press the download button, if such a one exists, three times in three consecutive days accidently and that I would complaint to TRAI, he disconnected the telephone saying something inaudible, probably some abusive words. Then I took up the matter with the customer relations through emails, and after exchange of mails two-three times, they were "kind enough" to wave all the money recovered from me for these unsolicited value added services and regretted the inconvenience caused to me; but were not all apologetic for deducting the money unauthorisedly and also gave no assurance that they would not resort to such acts in future.

Since now nearly 90% of the population in our country including illiterates and semi-literate persons, are mobile subscribers now, the volume of money the mobile companies (presuming that other companies too resort to such unfair practices) take from the poor customers through such dubious means can be well imagined. I have sent a specific complaint to TRAI in this regard and I do not know whether they will take any action against the company. In the meantime I would like to warn the public about such unfair means being adopted by Reliance Communications to extract money from us.

Regards

Thomas Mathew
www.keralites.net

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