Friday, November 18, 2011

Airtel Digital TV



I remember my first mobile, It was reliance CDMA. The year was 2004. I used Reliance CDMA for 2 years. Then I joined B.Tech college and got a chance to use GSM mobile for the first time in 2006. One of my friend suggested me to go with Airtel. I started using Airtel and I could feel the difference. The voice clarity was awesome, connectivity was brilliant and signal strength was good every where. And from the very first day I became Airtel fan and till date I am using Airtel as my primary number. Now I am in Bangalore. I brought a LG LCD TV, for entertainment and mostly for the upcoming ICC world Cup-2011. Then I needed a Disc connection. I inquired a lot about the different service providers, like Tata Sky,Airel, Dish TV, Reliance etc. And finally my faith on Airtel GSM service compelled me to go for Airtel Digital TV. I booked one. Once you bring a Airtel Digital TV, the CC people will ask for Address of Installation. They will ask for pin code to locate their nearest dealer. Then they will book your installation. They will give you an ID. On that ID you have to Recharge your Initial Package and monthly rental onwards. The same process was followed for me but I did one mistake. I was asked for my area pin code, I was not sure about the pin code, and instead of 560068 I gave 500056 which is pin code of Hyderabad. And then my problem started. They booked my installation in Hyderabad. Airtel Technicians started calling me from Hyderabad for installation. That day I understood the real use of pin code :). I spoke to Customer Care to change my Pin code. But something else happened. In their terms, my ID got corrupted (Which is not logical in our terms). Any way, as every CC people say; they also told  “we will solve this problem and get back to you soon”. New LCD TV was there in my room waiting for AV input signal. You can imagine my feeling, I spent INR 13,000 and from past 4-5 days only thing I could see on the screen was black display when there was no power or mosquito flying if i switch it on :). Every day I was calling 2-3 times to Airtel CC but there was no progress(from my angle). Then one day I got an Idea. I searched for Sunil Mittal's email. I got few. I don't know which was correct or all where fake. I added few more as sunilmittal@airtel.in, mittal@airtel.in etc from my side. Along with that I kept all 4 zone MD in loop and wrote a mail. Here is the content.

My first Mail to Digital TV CC.

Hello Sir/Mam,

I am not getting what is going on in my life. First My ID was corrupted on
19-Nov-2010(in ur database). Some how you people managed and on 20th
November evening I got massage that DTH will be installed on 23rd of
November. Today On 22nd November I got a call from AP ( I think from
Hyderabad) who was asking for the place where he had to install DTH. I have
given the Correct Address (detailed Address). When I checked with your
Customer Care People, they have given a pin code of Hyderabad instead of
Bangalore. The have given 500056 instead of 560068.
Now when I told to update my profile to Customer care executive, he told me
that he is unable to update my profile.
Now I came on
http://www.airtel.in/digitaltv and tried to update my profile,
here also some error is coming that ""We are sorry to update ur profile
right now, please try later""
Now I want to ask a simple question.* Had I done a mistake in choosing Airtel Digital TV??*
I am using Airtel mobile service from past 6 years, thats g8. But what u DTH
people are doing?

Update my profile ASAP.
Here is my full detail
Ajit Kumar Dubey
H-No-
Street-
......... etc etc

And I want my installation as soon as possible, Max by tomorrow

Thanks
Ajit Kumar Dubey

My follow up Mail to all nodal officers including Sunil Mittal 

Hello Sir,

I have gone mad after choosing
Airtel Digital TV. I dont know who else
but these Bangalore People(
Airtel Digital TV) are just playing with
it's(Aitel's) big name and its valuable customers.
You people can check that I took the connection on 22nd of Nov and
made many complain in CC and to nodal officer.
You cant believe that from nodal office of Karnatka, I got two system
generated mail only. No body even care about the customer. Some how
yesterday some technician came and installed the STB and other tolls.
But when they tried to activate the STB, the CC people said that My
Account has been expired. And again the story began. I started calling
the dealer and CC people. Some body told me to wait for 30 minutes and
few convinced me for 2-5 hours. But the problem has not been solved
yet. Its 8 days and still I am unable to use
Airtel Digital TV. Sunil
Mittal is spending crore of Indian Rupees for logo and theme songs.
But these people are wasting every thing. I am a supporter of
Airtel
but in future I will never advise anyone to go for
Airtel DTH. And on
Monday I am going in consumer court.
I am trying to get the email address of Mr. Ajai Puri to send this
mail. Please help me and give me the working mail address of Ajai Puri
and Sunit Mittal.


Thanks with Regards
Ajit Kumar Dubey


You can not believe the effect.
I got call from some senior technical guy. He was on call and created a new Id for me, transfered my money in that account. And told me that today only the whole process will be completed. He called me three times. And finally the whole Installation got complete that day itself. But the account was not active so I could see only channel no. 100 which is Airtel Digital TV channel. I could see how to use remote, how to use the wonderful functionality of the Set up box :). It took 24 hours to get ready to show me the common channels. And it was Saturday. In those 24 hours I saw the user guide so many times that i remembered whole thing.
At the last the common channels started and from that day I am very happy with Airtel Digitl TV again. The picture quality is superb. Set box is small and having good response to remote also. My LCD is not HD, but the picture is so clear that every body get confused thinking that its a HD tv. I took North India Pack of INR 221 monthly. Its having almost all common Hindi channels, News, Entertainment, Music, Sports, Lifestyle, Information, Kids Zone etc. Few months back I changed my room. Had to reallocate my Airtel Digital TV also. I called CC, gave the new address with correct Pin code this time. They charged 300 for relocation. Now I am enjoying it.
I will recommend Airtel Digital TV over any other. I have heard that Tata Sky i also good. But Reliance is bad. Personally I am very happy with Airtel Digital TV also with me LG 22' LCD.   




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Monday, June 27, 2011

Side Effects Of Getting A Job




It’s a long time I have not posted anything here. The reason is easily predictable. Last written post (Not copy Pasted) was written when I was not in Job. Now I understand the meaning of  “Students Life Is Golden Life”. These days I am not getting time for even myself. I remember the time when I was in College. We had no restriction of time; actually we had no restriction for anything. Whatever we wanted to do, we did, either it's a Class bunk for no reason or for a reason like trip/tour etc. Those days we were having everything, the only guilt was; not supporting our family economically; rather we were taking money from them. But now I am in job, the only thing which I am getting now is money, rest all is gone. Any way it’s the normal life. We born, we start from KG's then SS then College and then a good job.
The other side effect of getting a job (specially a software job) is that your belly will be visible when you wear a T-Shirts.
You will not get time for you hobbies.
So above description states a few basic side effects of getting a job. But that is not all. The biggest one is something else (at least for me as of now).
I stared my career as a trainee/Intern. After few months of getting job my mom started asking me about my marriage. The questions were simple but the answers were very complex (same as our university papers).Qu- When you are planning to marry? What type of girl you want? And many other question related to this topic. That time it was easy for me to answer. My answers were “I am not settled, let me get settled first; Let me get some proper salary package; Then only I will think of my marriage".
But real problem has begun now. My training got completed on 11-May. I was also offered a good package of 3.6L/A. But my mom was silent. But I could feel the storm behind that silence. I knew the reason. My mom and My Dad were planning to come to Bangalore. They had to go to Rameswaram, Tirupathi, Kanyakumari etc. So the ticket was booked for 27-May. Finally they reached Banglore on the expected date. Those days I was very busy in one of my project. So in week days they did not get time to ask much on the marriage topic. And in weekends we were out for Some Location (Tirupathi, Rameswaram etc.). After that my dad returned back. Every day my dad was calling my mom and asking for my choice of girl. So my Mom started asking me.
This problem is the biggest side effect of getting a Job. This Side effect, affected many people. After my dad returned home, there were around 40-50 people reached him for my marriage in just 2 weeks. The people who are close to my family, they are saying ‘we have already seen a good girl for Ajit'. And as people are approaching my dad, he is putting pressure on my mom and as a result she is putting pressure on me.
And at the last whole pressure is on me indirectly.
Now it can be also asked that why I am not telling my choice. Honestly saying I do also not know how to get a girl of my choice. I thought a lot but did not get any proper answer. I know what type of girl I should marry. But I am not getting any criteria to find that girl.
Because the entire requirement is software related.
Here I am listing the features:-
1. She should be down to earth.
2. She should be intelligent (She should really be; not she should think that she is)
3. She should be understanding
4. She should know how to respect every one specially elders.
5. She should be versatile (i.e. she can adjust into my family culture and also different situating which comes unknowingly in the life.)
6. She has a thinking to live as family (My family definition include My Mom-Dad and Sisters not like only Husband-wife and children).
7. Along with this she should be smart (Smart thinking, smart dressing (Indian), and smart by looks ).
8. We are a village cultured family so she should be ready to adopt that also.

These are a few qualities, but the problem is; there is no parameter to judge these qualities. Now, what I will say to my family. Any way I tried to tell these qualities to my mom. lets see what happens.





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