Sad News Airtel has reduced incoming validity from 7 days to 3 days after a plan expires

[Siddarth27]

Airtel has reduced income validity from 7 days to 3 days after a plan expires.

 

[Ethan 2023]

Airtel has reduced income validity from 7 days to 3 days after a plan expires.

This is insane, dictatorship in a democratic country, shame on Airtel

 

[Kmr]

Why Government should not draft any bill regarding bring curb on blocking incoming calls from operators.....

 

[Ethan 2023]

Why Government should not draft any bill regarding bring curb on blocking incoming calls from operators.....

They already took money from us for lifetime incoming free but started charging arbitrary, in telecom sector Airtel is most fraud company

 

[anubhav]

They already took money from us for lifetime incoming free but started charging arbitrary, in telecom sector Airtel is most fraud company

That was valid until the expiry of their old spectrum.

 

[Sparker0i]

First Airtel DTH increased alacarte lock in period to 30 days and now this…

Airtel has become an anti consumer company now

 

[Ethan 2023]

That was valid until the expiry of their old spectrum.

That was an excuse, they could not digest the success which jio was receiving, now both Airtel and jio have shaken their hands and creating duopoly in the telecom market, marginal players like tata docomo, aircel,uninor etc. Have vanished and we the consumers left with no option now

 

[Esmail]

That was valid until the expiry of their old spectrum.

Expiry of their old licence to be precise, now that Licence and Spectrum validity are no longer synonyms.

That was an excuse

It was pre planned, no operator is foolish enough to make a price commitment for an actual lifetime when inflation rate in the market is through the roof.
They launched the lifetime incoming validity offer towards the end of their 20 year licence period, knowing that the unsuspecting subscribers will fall for it and that they will have to honour it only for a few years and gain subscriber additions in return.
Their licence expired in 2014/15 whereas Jio commercial launch happened in 2016. They just continued the incoming validity beyond the licence expiry without any obligation, but Jio's entry just triggered them to end it sooner than they had planned. They needed to increase revenue to be able to invest in network since Jio's network was built for data while theirs was built for voice, so they were bound to lose the data subscriber war like all the smaller players did.

 

[kanagadeepan]

First Airtel DTH increased alacarte lock in period to 30 days and now this…

Airtel has become an anti consumer company now

No. I will NEVER ever accept this point. They are anti-consumer for decades, not now.

They are just testing the waters now. If Jio and VoId follows the same, then in the coming days, Airtel will make changes such that there will be no extra incoming days after the plan expiry.

 

[Ethan 2023]

Expiry of their old licence to be precise, now that Licence and Spectrum validity are no longer synonyms.


It was pre planned, no operator is foolish enough to make a price commitment for an actual lifetime when inflation rate in the market is through the roof.
They launched the lifetime incoming validity offer towards the end of their 20 year licence period, knowing that the unsuspecting subscribers will fall for it and that they will have to honour it only for a few years and gain subscriber additions in return.
Their licence expired in 2014/15 whereas Jio commercial launch happened in 2016. They just continued the incoming validity beyond the licence expiry without any obligation, but Jio's entry just triggered them to end it sooner than they had planned. They needed to increase revenue to be able to invest in network since Jio's network was built for data while theirs was built for voice, so they were bound to lose the data subscriber war like all the smaller players did.

Still the surge in prices are unethical, Rs. 35/ month to Rs. 99/ month, then cancellation of value packs is another nasty move forcing customers to unlimited packs (unwillingly), and now reducing these incoming free days to 3 is another level of cheapness , it's a sheer loot of customers when actually only 2 options are available in market