Vodafone India: Happy to help?

The ads have now become annoying especially when you DO know that the Vodafone Customer Care is pathetic and they are not really happy to help.

Here is an example comment from a Vodafone user:

I had got same response from a Vodafone customer care representative while complaining about network lost issue. That arrogant guy told me to cancel my connection.
Vodafone need to do something about their network and customer care guys or they are going to lose many of their customers at least I am not going to continue using Vodafone.

Checkout: Vodafone on India Broadband Forum for Support

What about Apple iTunes in India?

Now that it is confirmed that Apple iPhone would be sold in India by both Airtel and Vodafone, the next question is when would Apple launch the iTunes in the Indian market?

Apple iTunes is unlikely to be very successful in India considering people do not like to pay for digital media.

But if the iPhone is indeed going to be sold in India, people would love to buy iPhone applications that would be offered in other markets for the iPhone.

Or maybe, Apple does not really care and would just have the money from both Airtel and Vodafone for the outdated first generation iPhone! Especially considering the iPhone is out of stock in both US and UK and market reports suggest that the international markets are all set to get the second generation iPhone that would support 3G.

We are unlikely to see the 3G edition of iPhone being sold in India officially. First, it makes no sense considering we do not even have 3G in India. Second, why would Apple bother to make available the second generation model in India when we would suck up the old generation one!

Apple iPhone in India through Vodafone!

It’s confirmed now and I cannot wait to get the shock when the two companies would reveal the price of the device.

Considering HTC is selling their Touch range of devices for around Rs. 25-30K in India, I would not be surprised to see Apple iPhone selling in India for like Rs. 35-40K.

That would suck for sure.

Vodafone spams about anti-spam features

Vodafone just spam called me to tell me about a new feature on their service. This service has been designed to protect me from unwanted spam calls.

So, they want me to pay them 99 rupees monthly to set up a black list of numbers from which I do not want to receive calls. And I have to pay I think 50 paisa for adding every number to this list!

Considering, we already have National-Do-Not-Call registry in place, Vodafone should be taken to task by TRAI…

This is simply wrong.

Airtel or is it Vodafone but that is Hutch now!

A user on the India Broadband Forum pointed out this official website which sounds like it represents Airtel (of India) but it turns out to be the website of Vodafone Spain!

Vodafone Spain

The website: http://airtel.com
It points to: http://www.vodafone.es/

It is especially funny considering Vodafone is now one of the major rivals of Airtel in the Indian market. Mind baffling stuff.

But then Airtel and Vodafone have been partners since quite sometime…