Telcos add salt to the wound, ask Kashmiris to pay for suspended period

SRINAGAR: As Kashmiris continue to celebrate the restoration of their post-paid mobile phones, service providers are having the last laugh with them charging the subscribers for the period when services were suspended in the valley.

Ironically, the recharge packs credited by the subscribers to their phones have also ‘exhausted’ even though no body ever used them during the clampdown period.

To add to the woes of ther subscribers, SMS services and internet facilities continue to remain suspended even on the post paid mobile phone whose services were restored in the Valley after 70 days on Monday.

“The worse part of the callousness of the service provider is that no vendor is able to accept rent or recharge packs in the Valley as their internet connections are also not working.