{"id":1024673,"date":"2026-07-30T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024673"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:08:32","slug":"charged-%e2%82%b965000-for-data-while-on-a-flight-consumer-court-orders-bsnl-to-pay-%e2%82%b930000-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/charged-%e2%82%b965000-for-data-while-on-a-flight-consumer-court-orders-bsnl-to-pay-%e2%82%b930000-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Charged \u20b965,000 for data while on a flight: Consumer court orders BSNL to pay \u20b930,000 compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Chhattisgarh, in its July 8 order, directed Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to revise a customer&#8217;s mobile bill and pay compensation after finding that he was wrongly charged for international roaming data while he was on a flight from Thailand to India. The commission held that since the complainant was on a flight during the period for which the data usage was billed, it was impossible for him to have used mobile data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Chhattisgarh, in its July 8 order, directed Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to revise a customer&#8217;s mobile bill and pay compensation after finding that he was wrongly charged for international roaming data while he was on a flight from Thailand to India. The commission held that since the complainant was on a flight during the period for which the data usage was billed, it was impossible for him to have used mobile data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024674,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024673\/revisions\/1024674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}