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

[Naimish555]

Yours is a long term validity plan so it might have longer incoming validity. Maybe they have reduced it for the monthly recharge plans.

Yes Absolutely,
In ₹509 Plan 7 Days Incoming Validity after the completion of plan...

 

[kanagadeepan]

Yours is a long term validity plan so it might have longer incoming validity. Maybe they have reduced it for the monthly recharge plans.

Yes Absolutely,
In ₹509 Plan 7 Days Incoming Validity after the completion of plan...

So, typical Airtel. Airtel is the Modern day "Reverse RobinHood" Company. Rob the poor to serve the High Paying customers.

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

So, typical Airtel. Airtel is the Modern day "Reverse RobinHood" Company. Rob the poor to serve the High Paying customers.

This is going to cost Airtel a lot.

 

[Ethan 2023]

This is going to cost Airtel a lot.

Should cost but not until we port out

 

[Esmail]

Rob the poor to serve the High Paying customers.

Not trying to play devil's advocate here, but 3 days grace per 28 days validity would translate to 9 days grace for 84 days validity while they are giving 7 days only.

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

Should cost but not until we port out

Wait till Vi 4G coverage and capacity increase. Those who are using Airtel as a secondary and Jio as a primary will port secondary number to BSNL once it deploys VoLTE. Those who are using Airtel might be using high end devices which will be supporting band 28 on 4G. So no issues whatsoever. BSNL has planned 3L sites with 700Mhz(700Mhz can cover 3-5Kms of range from particular site). So coverage will be fantastic. It's upto BSNL to do that fast. 35000 4G sites already upgraded. 100000(planned till next year March-June). Currently 200K sites are there with 2G/3G. They are upgrading those first selectively. And then 100K more sites(these sites are planned for 5G as well once 4G is decently covered).

 

[kanagadeepan]

Not trying to play devil's advocate here, but 3 days grace per 28 days validity would translate to 9 days grace for 84 days validity while they are giving 7 days only.

Yeah, but the poor people are the one who is badly in need of more incoming validity. Rich and even middle-class people don't need extra validity as they mostly queue their plans in advance. Even if they forgot to queue, they will surely do a recharge when they found outgoing is blocked, but not a big hassle for them, since incoming will be working before their recharge. But Poor people usually will wait to recharge till the completion of the (or at least the last day of) incoming validity. Now they are forced to recharge minimum once a month.

Earlier poor people can recharge just 10.5 times a year (28+7days = 35 days; 10.43 recharges per 365 days). Now they have to recharge 11.8 times a year. Almost 2 more extra recharges a year.

Here we have to understand the greedy & cunning nature of Airtel. 28 days + 3 days = 31 days = One Calendar month. If some poor person recharges his number on the salary day, his incoming validity will end exactly on the salary date of next month, when he mostly will have money. This will hold true for 2 days incoming validity (28+2 days) as well, which will be their next logical step, imho. I mean they may reduce the 3 days extra incoming validity to 2 days, if they get no backlash for this change.

Wait till Vi 4G coverage and capacity increase. Those who are using Airtel as a secondary and Jio as a primary will port secondary number to BSNL once it deploys VoLTE. Those who are using Airtel might be using high end devices which will be supporting band 28 on 4G. So no issues whatsoever. BSNL has planned 3L sites with 700Mhz(700Mhz can cover 3-5Kms of range from particular site). So coverage will be fantastic. It's upto BSNL to do that fast. 35000 4G sites already upgraded. 100000(planned till next year March-June). Currently 200K sites are there with 2G/3G. They are upgrading those first selectively. And then 100K more sites(these sites are planned for 5G as well once 4G is decently covered).

It is logical for poor people with multiple SIMs to dispose all other SIMs except their primary number. Even this is a problem for middle class people, for whom 2 SIMs is a must, due to coverage difference (in home and work place). For them BSNL is the only upcoming "White Knight" and NOT VoId. VoId is more like a "Shadow of Airtel".

 

[Ashok Varma]

Yeah, but the poor people are the one who is badly in need of more incoming validity. Rich and even middle-class people don't need extra validity as they mostly queue their plans in advance. Even if they forgot to queue, they will surely do a recharge when they found outgoing is blocked, but not a big hassle for them, since incoming will be working before their recharge. But Poor people usually will wait to recharge till the completion of the (or at least the last day of) incoming validity. Now they are forced to recharge minimum once a month.

Earlier poor people can recharge just 10.5 times a year (28+7days = 35 days; 10.43 recharges per 365 days). Now they have to recharge 11.8 times a year. Almost 2 more extra recharges a year.

Here we have to understand the greedy & cunning nature of Airtel. 28 days + 3 days = 31 days = One Calendar month. If some poor person recharges his number on the salary day, his incoming validity will end exactly on the salary date of next month, when he mostly will have money. This will hold true for 2 days incoming validity (28+2 days) as well, which will be their next logical step, imho. I mean they may reduce the 3 days extra incoming validity to 2 days, if they get no backlash for this change.

It is logical for poor people with multiple SIMs to dispose all other SIMs except their primary number. Even this is a problem for middle class people, for whom 2 SIMs is a must, due to coverage difference (in home and work place). For them BSNL is the only upcoming "White Knight" and NOT VoId. VoId is more like a "Shadow of Airtel".

2nd sim card holders paradise/complex is Jio , you can receive calls for entire year after recharge once a year with a monthly plan