Mobile Number Portability Complaints-TRAI to intervene

by Sujith on 02/09/2011

After crossing different deadlines Mobile Number Portability came into a reality on 20 Jan 2011 across all Telecom circles of India. Statistics says around 17 Lakh customers have availed this facility  since the launch. Customers are facing several problems in connection with MNP. Service providers are deliberately delaying the porting requests and rejecting the applications. Here some reported issues with MNP.

1. Problems in getting Unique Porting Code: This is the preliminary requirement for MNP. When a customer send porting request SMS in prescribed format to 1900, the UPC to be delivered immediately as reply SMS from 1901, it’s an automatic process. Unfortunately people often are getting this type of messages “Sorry customer please try after some time”, ” Your request is invalid”, “Dear customer please wait for some time”, “Your request can not be processed”, “Try to contact customer care ” etc.

2. Applications not getting processed: As per the guidelines the whole porting process should be completed within four days on receipt of application . It has been observed that the loosing operators are deliberately delaying the  application and not even responding to the queries.

3. Rejection of porting request : Mobile operators are quoting ridiculous reasons for rejecting the applications such as ” You are in a special plan so porting is not possible”, ” You are using life time validity plan so porting request cannot be processed” . As per the guidelines these are not the valid reasons to reject an application.

4. Problems with post paid customers : Even after clearing all outstanding bills the porting requests of customers are not getting processed.

5. Downtime more than 2 hours : This happened with me also. I got an SMS about the porting time ” Your Port in request for Mobile number xxxxxxxxx has been accepted and your mobile number will be ported on 09 Feb  2011 at 00:53 AM “  Now the time is 0800, 09 Feb 11. Number is blocked and not able do outgoing/ incoming calls (The porting request application was submitted on 02 Feb 2011 with all required documents)

TRAI is monitoring  the whole MNP process and attending complaints. They warned the service providers against  deliberate delays and non complains of regulations. Let’s consider these glitches as the teething problems and hope the authorities will take strict actions against defaulters.


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Mukesh Kumar December 16, 2011 at 1:32 PM

dear
i am unable to genreate the Porting code of Reliance Gsm pls do the needfull mob no as follow
1 8591539633
2 9023261431
3 7307407287
4 7307406974

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mithun Singh February 2, 2012 at 4:27 PM

Contact you Reliance Customer car and they will provide you Unique Port Number of Your Mobile.
OR Send SMS : PORT_ to 1900

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kanhaiyalal surana December 16, 2011 at 8:43 PM

Dear sir i have given my reliance no 9341221774 cdma for porting to reliance gsm for 3 times and then i gave to vodafone gsm with the upc code as RX635647 and it still not ported.Please do the needful and port my no to gsm network please.

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Vodafone India December 17, 2011 at 4:31 PM

Hello Kanhaiyalal,

Kindly walk into any of our stores with the fresh UPC code to place your port in request. You can reach us at vodafonecare.kar@vodafone.com for any additional assistance, we’ll do our best to help.

Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Karnataka

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Dhananjay Jain December 17, 2011 at 6:45 PM

Hellow,

I want to change from Idea to Relience. I have submitted 3 times my all the documents to relience centre but every time my request got rejected. I am a premium customer of Idea but fedup with the network. kindly suggest me what to do.

Regards,
Dhananjay Jain

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Dhananjay Jain December 17, 2011 at 6:46 PM

My idea no. is 9767754184 kindly do the needful as soon as possible.

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suruchi pandey December 17, 2011 at 6:57 PM

DEAR SIR,
PLEASE LODGE YOUR COMPLAINT ON
http://WWW.PGPORTAL.GOV.IN

ONYL THE GOVERNMENT CAN HELP NOT THESE PEOPLE FROM THE VODAFONE. MNP IS MATTER BETWEEN TWO OPERATORS SO ONLY THE LOCAL T.E.R.M. 9 TELECOM ENFORCEMENT CELL) OF DEPRTMENT OF TELECOMM. WILL HELP YOU.
THESE TELECOM GUYS ARE ONLY AFRAID OF THE T.E.R.M. CELL.
REGARDS
SURUCHI

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kanhaiyalal surana December 19, 2011 at 7:23 PM

Thank you vodafone for your concern but here in vijaynagar,bangalore the manager and members talk with customers too badly and i have given them the code before but again you said to give me so if you can then please can u send me 1 of your representative to my house for the porting procedure please.

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BHAVESH TRIVEDI December 20, 2011 at 11:29 AM

I AM RELIANCE CUSTMER MY NO 8000520033 THIS NO IS CDMA TO GSM PORTING REQUEST ON 5 DEC 2011 BUT NOT RESPONSE IN RELIANCE

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Vijayan B Nambiar December 29, 2011 at 11:17 AM

Take up the matter with grievence cell. My number got ported from Reliance CDMA post paid to MTNL GSM prepaid after approaching the grievence cell.

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Vodafone India December 20, 2011 at 1:40 PM

Hi Kanhaiyalal,

One of our executives will get in touch with you at the earliest to help. Email us at vodafonecare.kar@vodafone.com for any assistance in future or you can also call us on our toll free number 198.

Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Karnataka

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Sudhakar Shetty December 26, 2011 at 1:16 PM

I have a post paid mobile connection with Reliance with number 9323546441. My attempts to complete MNP from Reliance to other provider have failed. I want to give last chance to Reliance to complete the process before I start Grievance procedure with them as well as DOT.

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Vijayan B Nambiar December 29, 2011 at 11:12 AM

Approach the grievence cell immediately as the operators dont want to loose customers and hence reject the request on some flimsy reason.

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Vijayan B Nambiar December 29, 2011 at 11:09 AM

First of all I want to thank Sujith for giving everyone a platform to put in their grievences regarding MNP. After three failed attempts in the last four months for changing my operator from reliance to MTNL, I had made a complaint with the grievence cell of Central Government. This worked as I got a call from Reliance official to track my case. I was again asked to give a port out request and the same has been done by Reliance in 7 days time. Hence, everyone is requested to approach the grievence cell and make an online complaint and follow up diligently. Please ensure all the bills are paid, if it is post paid, and initiate the MNP request ensuring sufficient time period is available before the next bill is generated.

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Arun January 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM

Hi ,
I have applied 3-4 times to change Network operator from Vodafone to Airtel.
I have not recived code fron thier side.
When contacted to customer care , they didn’t responded properly.

Can anyone suggest me the exact forum to raise this? I think this is useless steps of TRAI.

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Vodafone India January 4, 2012 at 11:45 AM

Hi Arun,

Kindly share your number with us here http://bit.ly/xYpgKL and we’ll get back to you with assistance at the earliest.

Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care

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srikanth January 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM

I had given request portability for MTS on 12/12/11. But not yet it will solve. My number is 8099999888 how many days it will take to work. I never face like this problem for any service provider. Sorry to say MTS has giving very worst service.

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a rakesh kumar January 5, 2012 at 4:06 PM

hello, sir first my number in vodfona num, 9885779066 this mnp tata indicomo my total disconnect
pls find out sir so important all un billing paid in vodfona his mil tata indicom us not pid amount thank u sir

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Vodafone India January 6, 2012 at 1:09 PM

Hello Rakesh,

Thanks for writing to us. Please share the details of your concern and also an alternate contact number here http://bit.ly/hzNUch so that we may help you better. You may write to us at vodafonecare.ap@vodafone.com Happy to help!

Kind Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Andhra Pradesh

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wazid January 6, 2012 at 8:31 PM

sir,
my no. 9269267357 is not port out from tata docomo cdma to tata docomo gsm. i gave request for mnp on 28 dec. 2011

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MAHAMMED SHAREIF H January 8, 2012 at 1:11 PM

Helloo Sir,

I ported my Tata docomo prepaid mobile no (9482133693) to Vodafone postpaid connection , and ,i submitted the required documents with UPC code to the vodafone agent.
Now already 9 days over and my number still not migrated to vodafone and i’m not received any messages from both service proveder.
Kindly do the needful.
Thanks.

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Vodafone India January 9, 2012 at 6:18 PM

Hello Mahammed Shareif,

Thanks for writing to us. We request you to get in touch with Tata Docomo for further assistance with your concern.

Kind Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Karnataka

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Saket Kumar January 11, 2012 at 2:38 PM

HI,

I had raised a MNP request to Idea ( Current subscriber) ( Idea to Vodaphone). Before raising the request i had paid teh last month bill with some extra amount to cover the unbilled usage. Two days after i raised a the request an amount of 1000/- was added to my un billed amount and my MNP request was rejected because of outstanding amount. On calling Idea customer care they refused me to give details of the un billed amount and told me that i need to wait for the next bill ( almost a month ) to review the details.

Please suggest as to what can i do in this case.

Thanks ,
Saket
9911163366

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Rachit January 12, 2012 at 5:12 PM

Hi I am trying to port from airtel to vodafone, however my monthly bill is too high thats why airtel is rejecting my request all the times, I had tried 3-4 times by now, I do not get any help from vodafone as well, can any one tell me trail email id for complain for airtel

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Upendra Marvadi January 12, 2012 at 7:16 PM

Respected Sir, My Idea Prepaid Cell no:9824127880 is 12 years old with me and the validity is on July 2012.
I Had applied for Portability on 31 Dec2011.IG No:446796 UPC expiry date is 15 Jan2012. But Idea has disconnect my services and on contacting on Customer care, their persons are not responding in right manner.

Yesterday I had sent a mail to Nodel officer of Idea,but till date no any response is given by the company.

I request you to solve the problem and allow my cell number for portability.

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biju john January 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM

I am unable to port my reliance gsm to tata docomo.whenever I send the sms,same is getting rejected.my no is 8088250096

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Vodafone India January 13, 2012 at 1:56 PM

Hi Rachit,

Thanks for writing to us with your concern. Please share your number with us at http://bit.ly/wdgNvZ we’ll get back to you with assistance at the earliest. For any other assistance you can call us on 198.

Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care

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Mahammed shareif January 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM

Dear sir,

Thank you very much, my number migrated to vodafone .

Shareif

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Vodafone India January 14, 2012 at 6:02 PM

Hello Shareif,

Thanks for writing to us. For any further assistance please write to us at vodafonecare.kar@vodafone.com Happy to help!

Kind Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Karnataka

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Indrakumar J. Yadav January 16, 2012 at 5:33 PM

i have do the mobile portability process on 12th january 2012. i transfer my number from Reliance GSM to Uninor. Today i got the SMS that your Current operator (RELANCE GAM) is rejected my portability (TRANSFER). reliance give me the reason that you have not giving proper answer to their executive calls. but i already told him when his exectuive talk with me about portability.

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Indrakumar J. Yadav January 16, 2012 at 5:35 PM

i have do the mobile portability process on 12th january 2012 for my mobile number 80008 72777. i transfer my number from Reliance GSM to Uninor. Today i got the SMS that your Current operator (RELANCE GSM) is rejected my portability (TRANSFER). reliance give me the reason that you have not giving proper answer to their executive calls. but i already told him when his exectuive talk with me about portability.

please do needful.

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Ashish January 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM

Hi,

I tried twice to port out my number 9910208854 from airtel to vodafone but airtel rejected it saying its corporate plan an cannot be port out.

Vodafone can you please help on this.

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E VISHAL January 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM

hello sir my number mts port out in reliance cdma for rejtead in upc code worng port number 9133260507 this mts number thank u mnp

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vivek agrawal January 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM

Dear sir i have given my reliance nos. 9320739303 & 9324445144 cdma for porting to reliance gsm near 40-45 days before but they still not ported.Please do the needful and port my nos. to gsm network as soon as possible. please.

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manish jain January 23, 2012 at 9:27 PM

Sir mene apna number 9212511536 td811263 ko unko 2 jan 2012 ko mtnl mein diya tha iske baad 21 jan 2012 ko 3pm per massage aya ki portot ke liye ke liye apko naya upc code naya lena hoga to mene naya upc code td 512417 ko 4pm naya code mtnl ke sanchar haat mein diya tha or 23 jan rat 9pm tak nahi hua kirpya iske khilaf koi action le

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rajesh January 28, 2012 at 9:26 PM

Dear sir/maam
I m using reliance no 9357268818for past 6 yrs.
due to poor network connection i applied for portability bt still waiting for it.

rajesh

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Chakresh Jain January 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM

I am a MTNL Dolphin postpaid customer. I applied for MNP, and the request has been rejected by MTNL without any reason. I called them on the customer care and they are saying they do not have any such request though I earlier received calls from MTNL enquiring on why I want to switch to a different operator.

Now, I send a request for the port number again to 1900, and this time I am not receiving any reply message despite sending 6 such SMSes in the duration of 10 days. I have sent an email to “1503@bol.net.in” for the same as well but not received a reply yet.

Can you please suggest what should I do? I want to switch the operator since it doesn’t work in NCR but do not want to lose my number. Please help.

Thanks
Chakresh Jain

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mohit January 30, 2012 at 1:14 PM

it all started back on 27th december 2011 when i intented to port my mobile number 9914888852 from idea to vodafone. For this i visited vodafone store at sarabha nagar, ludhiana. After submitting my relevant documents with the customer executive named Mr. Mukesh, he said that my number will be ported within 10 working days. Even after 2 weeks my number didnt ported as per deadlines set by TRAI. Then i visited the vodafone store again, and this time Ms. Priyanka attended me and from her i came to know that my porting request is not processed from their end into the vodafone system. After hearing that i told her to please process my request immediately and produce my documents which i submitted to them before as my documents should be present their as my request was not submitted to vodafone, Mohali but she was unable to present it as it was missing from their office. so i submitted my documents again to her on 11th january 2012 and my request got processed but my porting request was rejected two days after my request ,and i was provided with reason that my porting code was expired. After that i visited vodafone store again on 16th january 2012 to give my request again with new porting code but to my shock they were blank on whereabout of my documents submitted to them times before. So, i submitted my documents 3rd time,
and my number ported after a week and finally i got relived but that was short living as i got message from vodafone on 27th january that my documents are missing so i called vodafone care but that was useless as they were unable to give any solution and i visited the store again on 28th january but to witness the rude behaviour of your executives after asking them about lax behaviour that why they still didnt deposited to my documents but that was useless. At the end i had to deposited my documents again but i again got the message from vodafone that my documents are missing and i should submit the documents in 24 hrs otberwise my number will get suspended, to resolve my issue i called customer care and i talked to Mr. Deepak, Floor manager(as said by him) that there is nothing he can do and in any case i should visit the same vodafone store again (where employee’s are lazy to their core) and submit my documents for the 4th time .what should i expect from those employee’s who didnt submitted my documents 3 times before. Do vodafone employ the people who are p.hd in laziness and poor in solving problems?. i thought vodafone would be good as its a international brand but from the harrasment i am facing i think it’s the other side. now my clip is suspened and feeling that going with this way my number will sure get suspened. i hope to get some relief from this harrasment.

GOD BLESS VODAFONE CUSTOMERS

Regards
Mohit Khuranait all started back on 27th december 2011 when i intented to port my mobile number 9914888852 from idea to vodafone. For this i visited vodafone store at sarabha nagar, ludhiana. After submitting my relevant documents with the customer executive named Mr. Mukesh, he said that my number will be ported within 10 working days. Even after 2 weeks my number didnt ported as per deadlines set by TRAI. Then i visited the vodafone store again, and this time Ms. Priyanka attended me and from her i came to know that my porting request is not processed from their end into the vodafone system. After hearing that i told her to please process my request immediately and produce my documents which i submitted to them before as my documents should be present their as my request was not submitted to vodafone, Mohali but she was unable to present it as it was missing from their office. so i submitted my documents again to her on 11th january 2012 and my request got processed but my porting request was rejected two days after my request ,and i was provided with reason that my porting code was expired. After that i visited vodafone store again on 16th january 2012 to give my request again with new porting code but to my shock they were blank on whereabout of my documents submitted to them times before. So, i submitted my documents 3rd time,
and my number ported after a week and finally i got relived but that was short living as i got message from vodafone on 27th january that my documents are missing so i called vodafone care but that was useless as they were unable to give any solution and i visited the store again on 28th january but to witness the rude behaviour of your executives after asking them about lax behaviour that why they still didnt deposited to my documents but that was useless. At the end i had to deposited my documents again but i again got the message from vodafone that my documents are missing and i should submit the documents in 24 hrs otberwise my number will get suspended, to resolve my issue i called customer care and i talked to Mr. Deepak, Floor manager(as said by him) that there is nothing he can do and in any case i should visit the same vodafone store again (where employee’s are lazy to their core) and submit my documents for the 4th time .what should i expect from those employee’s who didnt submitted my documents 3 times before. Do vodafone employ the people who are p.hd in laziness and poor in solving problems?. i thought vodafone would be good as its a international brand but from the harrasment i am facing i think it’s the other side. now my clip is suspened and feeling that going with this way my number will sure get suspened. i hope to get some relief from this harrasment.

GOD BLESS VODAFONE CUSTOMERS

Regards
Mohit Khurana

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rahul February 4, 2012 at 1:38 AM

I ported from Idea to Airtel on 04 feb ….but from the time it ported to Airtel …SMS servicesb in nt working on my no…..neither incming nor outgoing…And also nt getting cal frm Some no…not abl t call on all numb.. overalll it is nt working …earlietr one is already blocked, and new bne is not working….plz look into tha same

8888816415

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RAKESH G February 10, 2012 at 5:29 PM

I have given a MNP request for changing my network from Airtel to Reliance on 2nd Feb 2012 . The application was not processed till 10th Feb 2012. the customer service executive from airtel on 5:00PM 10th FEB 2012 says that my porting ID that I have given was wrong, so my application is rejected. This happened to me 2 times , though I have carefully given my porting ID correctly while subbmitting my form with Reliance. please help me in making this MNP successfully. My number is 9840165765.I am going to raise this issue in grievance cell.

Government/TRAI should bring a online MNP portal so that we ourselves can do it by submitting documents without any hassle.while other countries like Newzealand etc., already have it and they are successful in that.

Also I would like to thank Suruchey pandey for sharing the web portal to log in complaints . please others also do share me if any more effective complaints portal are there.please mail them to rakeshg@live.com or 9840165765.Thanks in advance.

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vishalkaushal February 12, 2012 at 12:58 PM

if any here sme problem like me then guide me plz,where i complaint,maine 18 jan ko apna number airtel mai port karvane ke liye request beji thi jo,aj 12 feb. abhi tak compele nhi hui.airtel wale bol rhe hai ki bsnl ki orr se koi ans ni aa raha,mera numbet9779082006 hai

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Kishor thakrar February 12, 2012 at 8:49 PM

I am Air tel customer mobile No.9324620343.Network connectivity is very poor.
I have decided to port out. since Last one month air tel is refusing port out on fictitious grounds. port out is in favor of Vodafone

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sachin prajapati February 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM

sir
mei ne port 9998307218
sms 1900 pe kiya to muje port ka code sms mila nahi . customer care me b sahi jawab nahi de rahe hai . porting code mobile compni nahi de rahi hai customar care me b contect nahi horaha hai ? pls help me

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Vodafone India February 13, 2012 at 6:28 PM

Hello Kishor,

Thanks for writing to us. Kindly get in touch with your current operator and generate a new UPC code so that your request may be processed further. For any other info please write to us at vodafonecare.mum@vodafone.com Happy to help!

Kind Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Mumbai

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Nasim khan February 13, 2012 at 10:32 PM

As I Naseem Akhtar applied for MNPfrom Vodafone to Tata Docomo on
5dec 2011 with my personal documents I.D as previously it was with my
brother I.D named irshad Ahmad,
As i was communicated from TATADOCOMO gallery executive to give
fresh ID,then I got a confirmation SMS from Vodafone on 7 Dec that
your MNP is successful with portingcode VE345541,
On 15 dec I got another SMS from Vodafone that [ MNP request Rejected
for 9919098098 due to active porting order exits(subscriber NUMBER
EXITS IN THE SYSTEM) at 15-12-2011]and got another SMS from Tata
Docomo stating the same.
And my vodafone sim card show sim card registration failed.
When I went to Vodafone store they told me that your no is deactivated
from here you need to contact to Tata Docomo for further process and
when I went Tata Docomo the told me your no has been rejected from
Vodafone.
I was go many time both store but no one salve my problem. I spend
more time and money….
No one accepted his mistake and blame each other.
plz give me your valuable suggestion.
My alt no-8726305656
email-nasimkhan098@gmail.com

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Ashok February 15, 2012 at 9:12 AM

Hi am using aircel and i have move to airtel, so i submit the documents in airtel, but the aircel is not giving approval for my no last 10 days,
I called aircel customer care more than 15 times but they are not giving proper response.
Kindly do the needful.

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Ashok February 15, 2012 at 9:15 AM

Hi and my aircel no is 9884447220, UPC code: DT759158
Please do the needful

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joshi sanjaykumar February 15, 2012 at 2:09 PM

I am requesting airtel for portability first time before about six month they offer various plans to me after laps of about six month i again request for portability. The unique No re3ceived on 07 Feb 2011 for port ID is AZ344841 valid up to 22 Feb 2012. On 14 Feb 2012 i received msg from vodaphon i.e. portability rejected by your current operator due to there are subsisting contractual obligation for the subscriber.
You are therefor requested to instruct airtel to issue portability to me I will clear all outstanding withou fail.

Thanking you.

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joshi sanjaykumar February 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM

I am requesting airtel for portability first time before about six month they offer various plans to me after laps of about six month i again request for portability. The unique No re3ceived on 07 Feb 2011 for port ID is AZ344841 valid up to 22 Feb 2012. On 14 Feb 2012 i received msg from vodaphon i.e. portability rejected by your current operator due to there are subsisting contractual obligation for the subscriber.
You are therefor requested to instruct airtel to issue portability to me I will clear all outstanding without fail.

Thanking you

Thanking you.

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PRASAD February 16, 2012 at 1:55 AM

Dear sir,
i had already submitted to the application in vodafone store(hospet, karnataka) 2 times, last submission date is 7th feb 2012, still i didnt get any messages from idea or vodafone about porting….

mobile no. : 9739458748
UPC code : IX435981

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Vodafone India February 16, 2012 at 11:15 AM

Hi Joshi,

Could you please share your number with us here http://bit.ly/zNG4hF We’ll look into the matter and get back to you at the earliest.

Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care

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Vodafone India February 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM

Hello Prasad,

We kindly request you to get in touch with Idea in order to generate the UPC code. You can email us at vodafonecare.kar@vodafone.com for any additional assistance, we’ll do our best to help.

Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Karnataka

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fucker February 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM

tata docome is fucking thing plz anybody dont use tata

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