Tata Indicom and its idiocies

If you thought that private operators have improved the availability of services, here is a personal blow-by-blow account of Tata Indicom and its idiocies. I had written a mail last year to the Customer Care centre enquiring about their Internet services in my city. At present, they have presence in the nearby city for which I would have had to pay heavy pulse charges in order to access the same since my usage is high.

I commented about the lack of digital access number for the same. I have a BSNL line, which restricts outgoing numbers only to 172xxx numbers under their promotional scheme to improve access to internet. This fact I brought to VSNL’s notice. However, the reply I got merely repeated the same issue I had raised. So much for their standard of comprehension. As the days change to weeks and weeks to months, I have a strong belief that standards of IQ are falling in the customer support across board.

Cut back to a couple of months. They tied up with a private service provider in my city for providing Internet access. However, the access to their number (172226) from BSNL was still barred. (Reflects BSNL s anti competitive policy, which denied me the right to choose).

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Dear Friends, I see lots of blogs on Broadband India and India Telecom Market.

Before we can talk about the private players in the market, I would like to first define the golden word "Customer service".
Sadly most of the private players in the field think it is "Cusomer RACKING". I wonder what is the instrument of the private operators to give us such a bad service?

I can think of only the following reasons for giving such a service

1. They want to make quick money?- (don't they know that such games will not last long before the game comes to an end? All private companies hire top MBA grads from the best institutes and I think any marketing book, business book, quality policies would explain and stress upon "CUSTOMER IS THE KING and KEY TO SUCCESS", if they satisfy 5 customers they would in turn get another 35 people who would be potential buyers!!)

2. CUSTOMERS IN INDIA HAVE VERY LESS SAY - For example, I had a problem with TATA indicom billing, I spoke to every possible rut in the planet that were concerned with TATA but I could get to answer! They understand it is a problem but they don't want to work on it... instead they invited my to disconnect and I was so furious that I had to wait in a long que to file a complaint because there were so many people who wanted to do the same ( I had to wait close to 2 hours every time I wanted to speak to them) END RESULT - WHAT CAN I DO MAXIMUM but to throw the rubish phone on them though I may have to forgo 6000 bucks.
I came out of the customer center with little to say or do.
Were as in the US, the customers have lots to say and do. They can get a refund immediately they can even sue the company because because they have a good consumer court! The scare keeps them at the top
THAT IS SERVICE!!


I can talk about the pathetic customer service of SIFY, TATA INDICOM, AIRTEL, BSNL and so on. I think most of us have experienced the same things but this is just falling into the dead ears of private players!!

If TDSAT, TRAI or any governing bodies want INDIA to be a super power, TELE DENSITY to increase... It is not going to be companies spending hefty amount to market but it should be companies trying to retain customers.
COMPANIES need to remember only when they retain customers with joy will they see more and more people signing-up for the same.Customer's experience will be a key and will reduce advertis€m€nt budget.

Let me again stress that ones a customer has a bad experience you can be rest @$$ured that the customer is never going to sign-up again in is lifetime.

This message is for the governing bodies "PLEASE GIVE THE CUSTOMER A FAIR TEETH TO FIGHT FOR THE SERVICE THAT WE PAY FOR"
What do I mean teeth?
1.gives us easy and customer friendly ways to file in consumer courts
2. Customer should not be asked to come 100 times to the court. Instead they should be given the power to fight through a consortium which could be a discussion board like this.
3. FINISH THE CASE FAST (max 15days). If you don't have the people to do this, charge all customers a cess of 0.5% for this cause. I am sure everyone will be ready to part this money!
4. finally the defaulting company needs to pay a very hefty fine ( I know what you are thinking!! The private operator will p@$$ the fine on us...Mr. FM will have a way to track this...suggestion cut the final profit amount in the balance sheet and see to that the next years profit is less than the current year. This will bring tremors that would only make INDIA a place to live with better service).

This is the only way that I think off will bring down unhappy customers.

For sugestions mail me at naveen1@hotmail.com

Marketing/sales exec
Naveen R

vhvk has sent this as a report instead of as a post. Please remember to reply to the topic next time....its been a pain of being a tata indicom customer and trying to get the problem fixed..... every day for the last one week and the problem is not fixed. Each time i call them ....these un-capable professionals from customer support and networks promise to resolve in COUPLE of hours...........but the end result is the same..... I SWARE you all others reading this.... please think a 100000000 times before you decide to own any connection from TATA........ This un-scruplous professionals in the organization are bidding a big TATA to their customers and revenues...........one of the worst experiences anyone can is to spend time, call their support guys every day to their customer support which i did the whole of last week......atleast 3 - 4 calls each day and be given a complaint number......and i have collected some half century of complaint numbers i guess......no more with TATA in my family or any where i go .......[/b]