How to disconnect Reliance Jio Fiber connection and get a refund?

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Hyderabad, India
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Reliance Jio Gigafiber
Hey Forum,

I did not find a thread related to JioFiber refunds and looking at the plans they unveiled, I'm sure there will be many people looking for refund related Q&A soon. So, I'm creating one now to share my experience.

I have raised a request for deactivation of my JioFiber account sometime in first week of November. After couple of days, account was deactivated and ONT was collected after another two days.

I started recording a while technicians are disconnecting the router and take everything required off the wall as a proof that router is indeed been collected in working condition. These technicians also took my bank details on a piece of paper and told me that I will get a OTP for confirming bank details and that I have to tell them that OTP.

The OTP message has My bank acct number and IFSC code along with OTP. I called the technician back and told him the OTP.

Now the wait begins, meanwhile I kept calling CC-Number, pinging JioCare on Twitter regarding the refund. After 2 days of collecting ONT, I received an email from JioPay asking me to enter my bank details (again!!) to process the e-refund. And the email said, I will get refund only if the details are submitted from this link. The link requires one to upload a copy of bank account's cancelled cheque. I used different account this time and submitted details as I don't have chequebook for account that I gave to technicians.

Exactly after 15 days, Today, I received an email and a message that my refund is processed via NEFT and my account (that was given in e-refund link) will be credited in 72hours. After few more hours, my refund is credited successfully. (Yayyy!!)

During those 15 days, I was searching for "Jio Fiber Refund" topic in Twitter and the tweets made me worry more as almost all of them are complaints that they haven't received their refund -- Some even disconnected and returned their ONT 6 months back.

Overall, My experience with them has been good, I did not face any issues while getting connection nor with connection. I had 3 or 4 downtimes between 5 mins to 2 hours in the whole 6 months. And, Refund experience is also good. Although I would say, their CC is worst -- When asked about refund, Phone CC said I will get it in 15 days but JioCare Twitter said it'll take 60 days (uff!!). But, as I said, Experience has been good.
 
@koolkunz They had just collected JioFiber ONT but didn't collect your installed Fiber cable and junction box! Right!
So suppose in future, if you want to use JioFiber again then there will no need to reinstall the Fiber cable, just connect new Jio ONT to previous installed junction box and internet will work after successfully activation of new connection by Jio team.

So In that case, will there any need to re-pay non-refundable installtion charges again? As installtion of fiber cable is already done, Will we get any concession or assurance of full refund after disconnection from Jio?
What you think and If possible than please confirm this from any knowledgeable Jio person.
 
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Installation charges have to be paid every time, you take a connection irrespective of whether the Installation was done or not. You are always entitled for a full refund w/o the need of additional assurances provided you return the equipment’s in working condition.
 
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@koolkunz They had just collected JioFiber ONT but didn't collect your installed Fiber cable and junction box! Right!
So suppose in future, if you want to use JioFiber again then there will no need to reinstall the Fiber cable, just connect new Jio ONT to previous installed junction box and internet will work after successfully activation of new connection by Jio team.

So In that case, will there any need to re-pay non-refundable installtion charges again? As installtion of fiber cable is already done, Will we get any concession or assurance of full refund after disconnection from Jio?
What you think and If possible than please confirm this from any knowledgeable Jio person.
Yes it should be fairly easy to get a new connection installed but they will take full charges irrespective of that. For me installation was free so I cannot complain (my whole jiofiber experience was free 😆 ).
 
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I think account deactivated. ONT indicator blinking red. Going to miss the free internet days......

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