Airtel and Vodafone Idea extend incoming service till May 3

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Telecom service providers Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have extended the incoming service for low-income customers up to May 3, 2020. Earlier, both TSP had announced free incoming service till April 17 which has now been extended...

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[Basil]

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[Sai Jai]

How they classified as low income customer ?? Nil balance ??

 

[Basil]

How they classified as low income customer ?? Nil balance ??

By identifying customers who use lower end prepaid plans on feature phones bro

"validity of its prepaid plans, availed by low-income customers using feature phones"

Vodafone Idea announces validity extension and talktime to feature phone users | OnlyTech.com

 

[TJ_DJ]

Yes, its being identified by feature phone users. But my Vodafone Prepaid, although on a Smartphone, was switched off for a long time (1 month+), but when I checked, I got free Outgoing validity till 17-Apr-2020 and 1000 minutes of talktime. This, in spite of me doing a Rs 24 recharge in the past month. Main Balance is Rs 1000+ but still I got it.

 

[Sai Jai]

My mom mobile is smartphone but incoming validity not increased I done recharge couple of days ago

 

[Optimus_Prime]

My mom mobile is smartphone but incoming validity not increased I done recharge couple of days ago

mine too.
not increased. inactivated from two week

 

[TJ_DJ]

Today, 21-Apr-2020 I checked that my Outgoing Validity has been extended by Vodafone till 30-Apr-2020. Earlier, I had got free extension till 17-Apr-2020 and now it is extended to 30-Apr-2020. My SIM Card is in a 3G Smartphone but is switched off since a month. Maybe thats the reason they couldn't detect what Handset I am using, and categorised me as Feature Phone user by default.

 

[iDJ]

My Airtel number sits deactivated on a 4G handset. I ain't recharging. IVR options doesn't work for me on VoLTE and Jio has superior speed. Will recharge once in 90 days for number retention.