An assistant nodal officer of Airtel India has alleged that someone is trying to hurt the company's finances by disrupting its connectivity. According to the complaint filed at the Samata Nagar police station, the firm's optical fibre cable (OFC), which provides better connectivity to its customers, has been tampered with at over 50 locations in the northern suburbs of Mumbai.

Airtel's Mumbai Assistant Nodal Officer Prathmesh Manjrekar, 30, said that they discovered the tampering after receiving multiple complaints from the customers. People from North Mumbai called with complaints of slow internet speed, disturbance while speaking on the phone using the Internet. Thereafter, the company deployed its officers to the areas from where the complaints came.