The uninterrupted rains have resulted in excessive water logging and disruption of essential services in Chennai, thus causing power failures and impacting services in some region.
State owned Telecom Company BSNL also offered Free Voice calls, SMS from Mobile and Voice calling from BSNL Landline/Broadband services for a period of seven days to Chennai rain-ravaged Chennai.
Airtel announced an auto approval of ‘Credit Talk Time’ upto Rs.30 for Prepaid customers and Free 10 minutes credit talk time within network i.e Airtel to Airtel for a period of two days.
In addition Airtel offers 50MB Free credit service data usage for prepaid mobile users for two days. As well for Postpaid users whose bills are due to be paid has extended the time for payment of postpaid bills of Fixed and Mobile services.