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Airtel to stop Airtel Online GPRS plan from May 5th!

Prashanth on May 2nd, 2009

Airtel is withdrawing it?s one of the popular GPRS plan Airtel Online in effect from May 5th. Airtel Online is a restricted GPRS plan which allows to browse internet only on Mobile Phones. For browsing on computer or laptop using your phone as modem, you should have EDGE plan ?Mobile Office? charged Rs.99/week for Pre-paid & Rs.140/week on Postpaid. Airtel was charging Rs.5 per day for Airtel Online which was pretty cheap & allowed users to browse net on the go.

From May 5th Airtel introducing the new plan VBC (I still don?t know the expansion!) which allows seamless browsing. Airtel announced to charge 30paise/50kb for this plan. I still don?t know what ?Seamless? browsing means for Airtel. Whether they are going to open up all the ports & give access to POP, IMAP servers? And whether users are allowed to browse internet on computer using this? We have to wait & watch what it?s gonna be.

After May 5th you can send ?VBC ACTV? to toll free number 222 to activate this new GPRS plan.

Note: This post is based on an SMS I received from Airtel.


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  • Jay
    VBC is 'Voice based Customer
  • 9826130204
    i want to activate
  • firoz
    i have read a post from net,that with other states airtel sim we can use unlimited internet.but now i bought a new sim belongs to tamilnadu with theres proofs.and i brought that sim when total activations completed. but still there is no unlimited net working (activated).what can i do now to use unlimited net.....plz anyone help me.....who knows about this proses.......
    Regards -
    firoz
  • I don't know about the current plans but I'm using Airtel NOP for wap surfing. It's good till now.
  • Aaditya
    Airtel sucks man but can u tell me abt bsnl 3g gprs plans
  • Have they come up with any new plan?
  • edwin
    I bought a new airtel sim solely for accesing net on my laptop.But i came to know that airtel has withdrawn all unlimited GPRS plans i.e. no daily,weekly or monthly unlimited plans since sep 21.
  • My brother misses blogging from his Sony Ericsson..
  • imran khan yusuf
    dear Sir, This is Arman Iam Using The Internet From Gprs to Pc But Its Very Costly The are taking to much perday, in prepaid sim of airtel. U have any other plan like as monthly basic unlimmited free browsing, send me mail
  • kaushik
    airtel gprs is just sucks fuck offff
  • emad
    @shinefire why BSNL is not providing this plan in prepaid?? because in the postpaid they can send a huge bill and users must have to pay it..
    @Prashanth site is loading fast than previous
  • @Emad
    Hey, I have moved Tech Bangalore to VPS now. Should be faster, do let me know if you still find it slow
  • shinefire
    @emad............Plan 199 is an unlimited plan without any download limits in postpaid
  • emad
    yup!! tata is Rs. 2 per mb prepaid and 50 paisa per minute postpaid not cheaper mr. khan you have to go for tatas Rs.1000 unlimited where they capped also fair usage limits no option if u want to surf unlimited
    @shinefire kindly explain it more 199 plan is not available for prepaid and it have download limits in postpaid!!!
  • Khan
    Airtel management starts its way to cheat better satrt using tata indicom
  • Khan
    What they r going to achive by closing online ....Airtel fucks its not 4use
  • shinefire
    Why should u use Airtel at Rs.500 when BSNL is giving you the same at Rs.199 p.m
  • In the Mumbai circle, Airtel's unlimited GPRS plan has always costed Rs. 500. So well, get used to it guys!
  • @Emad - Yeah, many people are complaining about site being slow. I am on Media Temple with WP Super Cache enabled. Don't understand why it is still slow. Will look into it. Thanks for your comments :)
  • Emad
    Sorry! Replace userbase instead of database
  • Emad
    if tata gsm provides cheaper unlimited GPRS a huge database of airtel gprs users will move to tata
    @dear Prashanth your site is loading very slowly do somthing for it
  • Emad
    It will be best chance for tata indicom GSM which is about to born to catch airtel loosing customers and with vsnl hi fi internet it will be good experience for users
  • sharath
    by doing like this airtel is loosing its coustomers, i dont know why they moved like this.
  • Lhakyab
    Fuck up airtel, and airtel mobile office monthly charge how much ruppe ?
  • I do not expect such a customer unfriendly decision by Airtel
    This big company is often making spoil sport for its customers
    here is one such instance of the many i do come across as an airtel customer
    http://coolsrini.blogspot.com/2009/04/airtel-gi...
  • This is definitely bad move by Airtel.
    First, introducing limits to unlimited plan for broadband users & next is this.
    This move is bad for itself only, I don't know what they gonna achieve by doing all this. It's nothing but loosing customers & loosing brand value!

    Wake up Airtel!!
  • rajan karunanidhi
    anywa loss of time loss of money totaly goodbye to AIRTEL
  • Emad
    It's time to say good by to airtel
  • Fucking retards, that's what Airtel is.
  • i guess this is what is going to happen http://telecomtalk.info/airtel-unlimited-gprs/3... a common plan will be introduced like zero rental plan
  • nice informative stuffs
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