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I did not pay the bill on time for BSNL last month. After a while, all outgoing calls were blocked. Talked to a few people around and they said it might be a big hassle to get things working again.

After some delay and worrying about the consequences, I thought of taking corrective action. As a start, I decided I will pay the bill. I went to the automated BSNL pay station and paid the bill.

Next day, was discussing with my wife on how to go about requesting that the facility be turned-on again. How can I bring things back to normal with our telephone. Etc, etc.

Lakshmi said she will just check anyway if we are able to make outgoing calls now. Only if we are not able to, we need to do something.

I laughed. We paid the bill last night. Do you really think there is some magical program that runs overnight and releases all lines checking if we have paid the bill. That too, when we have paid it this late?

She tried calling. And she got through.

Yes, BSNL.