Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has once again stressed cellular companies to avoid hidden charges and directed them strictly to aware customers with exact charges plus other conditions, reported Daily Times today, in a detailed report with several segments of PTA’s directions.
Below given is given the excerpt from this report
The PTA directives issued under “Telecom Consumer Protection Regulations, 2009”, asked all telecom operators to ensure that consumers know the exact costs for all services prior to purchase. This should be clearly expressed without any false or misleading information, explicitly disclosing the tariff rates, units of charging, and applicable taxes, etc in their advertisements.
The effective tariffs for all services are in accordance with the tariff as mentioned in advertisement, it added.
PTA directed telecom operators not to pre-activate any tariff on consumer, optional in nature, without the consent of consumers.
On billing, it instructed all operators to provide detailed billing information to their consumers in accordance with license terms and conditions, regulations/directives issued by authority, code of commercial practice and service contract as approved by authority.
Regarding service interruption, in case of planned network system enhancement, updates or upgrades, the operators shall give the consumer thirty days prior service interruption notice, telecom watchdog directed.
It further asks the operators shall inform the reasons for the interruption and expected time of restoration of services to the consumers by any SMS, Calls and other means in the case of unforeseen technical interruption/faults.
Operators may withdraw the provision of any service to consumers, provided such withdrawal is approved by the authority and thirty days prior notices is given to consumers.
Subject to prior communication of suspension and disconnection policies to the consumer, an operator may suspend or disconnect rendered services in accordance with their policies.
Operator shall clearly communicate the reasons for suspension/disconnection to the consumer along with the action required on the part of that consumer to avoid such suspension/disconnection.
It also asked that operation shall not suspend or disconnect a service to a consumer on account of which the consumer has paid all the dues, even if the consumer has defaulted in the payment to the operators in relation to some other services.
But they may suspend/disconnect all connections for an individual services to a consumers, which are subscriber by that consumer in his/her own name and the default is not cleared for any one of such connections.
They operator shall not deny access to emergency numbers to a consumers, where the service is suspended for any valid reason.
PTA instructed the operator shall restore services to a consumer within twenty-four hours from when the consumer has taken all remedial steps, to the satisfaction of the operator, in order to rectify the matter resulting in such suspension or disconnection by the operators.
i do want to complain about Ufone always my 15Rs balance after 2 days becomes 0Rs without any reason.
i complaint it on 333 ufone call center & they said i have services on horoscope(which i never turned on, & don’t even get Sms of it NEVER Ever), then they said we have turned it Off.
later same thing is happening again when ever i call service center they say you used you balance.. while i have made any call since last 4 days.
many of my friends get balance cut just making Miscall from Ufone to Telenor numbers.
Ufone is a cheater.
how do i complain this to PTA??
my balance after 2-3 days always becomes 00.00Rs in my Ufone.