Sad News Airtel, Idea and Vodafone now requires you to recharge with a minimum pack to keep your sim alive

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Not sure who invented it but it's a rule from stone age, i mean in 2002-3 we used to recharge 330 to get 300 talktime evey month in BSNL and that talktime expire if we don't use it. They are now bringing it back.
As far as I could interpret, this is not a TRAI rule. Like I mentioned in my earlier posts, TRAI only says that the number cannot be "deactivated" if you have sufficient balance in your account (at least Rs 20). The industry stalwarts have found a loophole - they keep the number "active", but with no outgoing or incoming facility - if the minimum Rs 23/24 recharge is not done. Thus, they are abiding by TRAI rules since they haven't deactivated your number, and they get to suspend services too.

IMO, TRAI needs to revisit the meaning of "active" number and specifically mention that an active number means outgoing and incoming calls, SMS, MMS, and Internet is active.
 
But Airtel head stated that one aim of this rule is to eliminate subscribers which are not active. Those who only uses sims as secondary (incoming and any freebies) has problem.Most people who ported are inactive/less active users.So what use those subscribers stayed with them?
Airtel somehow sustain the subscriber loss as its base is mostly city based but what about vodafone-idea ??

If voidea kept loosing by this pace , within months they would loose customers in crores
 
I gave port out request for my idea number, retention department called me and said " not to go from the network, maintain 24 rs balance in account, and no need to recharge monthly".
 
Can anyone tell if Jio also deducts the same amount now or we can continue incoming without recharging??
 
Airtel somehow sustain the subscriber loss as its base is mostly city based but what about vodafone-idea ??

If voidea kept loosing by this pace , within months they would loose customers in crores

From business point of view there is no point in keeeping low value subscribers now as interconnect charge which used to be 14p/min will be abolised soon. So there is no income for an operator from incoming call. So losing crore of low value customers is not an issue now
 
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