Originally Posted by
Savage25
Remember to check whether you can still make outgoing calls 7-8 days after the activation. Airtel has twice "lost" the documentation (photocopy of passport) I submitted in order to activate the SIM card for the first time, and cut me off after 7 days until I raised hell with their area manager in the middle of the night.
You are not the only person whom I've heard report a like experience and am glad to hear you had some success by going after the area manager.
The idiocy of the whole procedure is that this "documentation" requirement is being done for so-called "security" reasons and yet it is unlikely that such a cut-off/denial serves much of any useful security purpose when fraudulently acquired ID in India is rather easy to get anyway and when most cell phones used in criminal activities in India -- at least going by the CBI and other LE/security agencies' many more investigations running circles around suppliers rather than acquirers -- seem to be stolen or otherwise fraudulently acquired in the first place.