Originally Posted by
GoraDesi
I've now gotten Airtel SIM cards two ways:
1. Airtel corporate store in Kolkata. I needed my passport. They gave me a 1 month SIM for around rs300. I then added money to the SIM on AIrtel's website to keep the SIM active for a year, but after 3 months service ended (even though it was pre-paid for a year). Airtel claims this is a government requirement.
They are correct, this is a tourist SIM with finite life---tourists aren't supposed to stay in India for a year.
The problem is that they took your money for one year anyway. They will never ever give it back. But if you had read previous posts in this thread, you would have known about the finite life.
Quoting prices isn't informative if we don't know what you got for it. One pays for a plan that typically includes unlimited calls and essentially unlimited texts, but varying amounts of data. The plans last for various periods, which in this case was presumably 28 days.
Originally Posted by
GoraDesi
2. Airtel booth at DEL. I paid about rs450 and it took just a few minutes to get the SIM. They didn't install the SIM in my phone, so bring a SIM tool. It took about 7 hours before the SIM became active.
Quoting prices isn't informative if we don't know what you got for it. At the airport they probably charged quite a bit more than the price of the plan they gave you. This SIM will also stop working after 3 months.
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