Customer Awareness Tips : When You Lost Your HandsetThese days mobile phones become a true inseparable part of our lives.

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Mobile phones are now not only used for calling, but it is used for sending funny sms, you can kill your boredom listening music, playing games, taking snaps, recording moments, surfing internet on the move.

Frankly we all love our mobile phones to some extent. But mishap happens. We lost our phone with our messages, contacts, pictures, videoes, sync accounts, saved game session i.e. we lost a greater part of our digital lives.

Airtel has come forward and shared some basic awareness tips exclusive for TelecomTalk users and in coming days we would be posting a series of awareness tips courtesy goes to Airtel Presence Team.

So what to do if you lost your phone ?

Contact your local/nearest Police Station [PS] as soon as possible once you lose your mobile phone and try to file a FIR [First Information Report] with the complete information of your cell phone handset, model, IMEI number, battery number if possible, lost mobile phone number, current contact details and this is a free service and you dont need to pay any amount to the police department.

If you do mobile banking, inform the police and the respective bank with the details.

Reach your Telecom Service Provider’s office as soon as possible and file a complaint about the loss of your handset with a copy of your FIR and request them to cancel the current SIM card and try to reissue a new one with the Same number, because this way you can make sure that the new owner of your mobile phone does not make any calls from your mobile phone and also you dont expect huge post-paid mobile phone bills which you have not used.