Saturday, June 28, 2008

Airtel sucks

So my Airtel validity ended uneventfully. BOOM! Out of nowhere. At 2 in the morning I realize I can't send messages. And someone couldn't wake me up in the morning for work. Because calls were barred.

So I proceed with my usual journey to the shop with the Airtel Recharge(A humble Chemists store 100 metres from my place).
Me: Airtel recharge kodi. 1 year validity beku, college plan. 
Chemist dude: Ah, ondu nimisha.
My Cellphone: ERecharge not successful
Me: WTF! @!$#@!! 
After a long time trying, Airtel tells chemist dude to tell me to tell airtel to get the 565 thing ENABLED. Whatever the hell that means. 
So I do, only I am told there is no SUCH THING. As I suspected. Also I am told the 565 thing SHOULD work. 
It doesn't. 
So I call Airtel again. They tell me to call after 1 hr because askdjska!! Yes, he said actually something like "askdjska". 3 times. I pretended to understand. 
I call them up after 1 hr. The thing gets disconnected. Just like that. Your call is important...Please hold the li..beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep. WTF
Next the Chemist guy calls up. They tell him to call after 9:30! That's like 3 hrs away. Chemist dude reassures me he will.
So I call up Airtel again later anyway. Airtel tells me to try 566 next! But that changes my plan. To a pathetic 50p per call, 10p per SMS! WTF! My current plan is 25p per call, free SMS!! Why do I have to change plans?? 

This sucks. They keep changing their pathetic plans hoping that people will get caught in some sadass plan paying more than they should just because they have to tell their friend they're walking down the stairs or reassure that he will be there on time or some such. It's sad. Phone companies suck. 

Update: So I went to a proper Airtel shop. After 3 days of fiddling around and little help from a good friend of mine, I got them to do a 777 recharge and it's all fine now! Phew. Morons. 

8 drops:

praveen said...

and thats exactly why i say to ppl use hutch..

praveen said...

i mean vodafone...

Half-Light said...

hey vodafone is worse! airtel at least has connectivity almost everywhere!

Amrut said...

you say airtel sucks. it'd take me lot more than a blog post to describe how much spice sucks!! atleast be happy that whenever u have balance n validity, you'l get decent connectivity in all places in the city. i dont get signal when i sit in the most comfy part of the hall while watching tv damnit!!!

Bhargav said...

Haha poor Jetru! :)

@Amrut

Spice does really suck, but at least they don't indulge in such trickery!
Wonder how they make money though... Bad connectivity plus dirt cheap rates plus no sleaziness?!!?

Reminds me. End of every month, there's this lady who calls and says, "Due date is 4th wokay? You'll pay bill before that no? Otherwise fine will come wokay?"

Phone companies suck.

Layfield said...

Ya vodafone is a lot more pathetic. No signal anywhere. Spice also.
I just the people at airtel just are plain dumb. Not that they are trying to trick us or anything. Or maybe they are. Bah.

Mirage said...

lolz.. who can be a better person to testify than me!! iv tried all three..spice,vodafone and now airtel! so far so good with airtel. ur story scares me though of my near future! hehe :)

Anonymous said...

I like the title!

Airtel service really sucks, with new GSM players sharing the airspace now.