Airtel GPRS new plan, Rs.19 for 200MB!

Airtel is getting more competitive in it’s GPRS offerings by offering one more GPRS pack at very affordable price. My friend Ashwin posted a screenshot sometime back which says about this new pack:

So, as per the screenshot if you easy recharge with Rs.19, you can browse free till 200MB. Though it’s unclear how much validity it carries. If you know, do let everyone know via comment section.

Update:

As Chaitu commented here, validity of this plan is 3 days.

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Airtel has recently rolled out a new GPRS pack which is very competitive with GPRS packs offered by new providers like Docomo. With new plan user gets unlimited browsing all through the month for just Rs.98. Though Airtel calls it “unlimited”, it comes with fair usage policy limit of 2Gb. If you are using GPRS only on mobile device, 2Gb is more than enough for a month. If you are connecting your laptop or PC to browse internet, then you should be counting on those bits!

To get this plan, just “Easy Recharge” with Rs.98. But, before that activate Mobile Office on your number. To do that dial *567*11# & you will get a confirmation message. Dialing this activates basic plan of Mobile Office, which is 30paise/50kb, pay as you browse. After you ERecharge with Rs.98, it overrides the basic plan & you will get 2Gb of free browsing. It’s instant

If you don’t have settings send ALL to 543210

Update:

To check your usage details & expiry date of the pack dial *123*10#

Tata Docomo has announced five new GPRS packs as follows:

-To pull internet settings please sms “INTERNET” to 52270 and save them as default settings on your mobile

-To get Recharge Instruction for all packs: Call 12526(toll free) OR Dial *135*<pin># OK

-To activate the Rs. 5/- Daily Pass,  SMS  ”GPRS” to 121

-For more information on the TATA DOCOMO GPRS Packs visit:  www.tatadocomo.com/gprs.aspx

Airtel has two unlimited GPRS packs for it’s prepaid customers. One day pack offers you unlimited browsing all the day for Rs.20. Similarly you can go for weekly pack for Rs.99 & do unlimited browsing throughout the week. Getting these packs activated is quite simple via SMS shortcodes as follows:

• To activate daily pack (Rs.20), send MO to 56123
• To activate weekly pack (Rs.99)  send MO to 56122

Since I’m not an Airtel user, I don’t know more about other GPRS packs Airtel is offering. If you are aware of any, please share it with others in comments section.

Airtel has introduced a new service “M Paper”offering its users to read news papers on wap enabled mobile phones. The service is powered by PressMart & IMI Mobile. To avail this service goto Airtel Live home page & click on “Infotainment”. Find M Paper link & click. There are two options for subscription:

• One News Paper/30 days —– 30 Rs
• Three News Papers/30 days —— 50 Rs

There are many news papers to choose from, but only Delhi, Mumbai & Chennai editions are available, not Bangalore.

When you activate GPRS on Airtel connection, you will receive an SMS saying GPRS service is active on your number, Visit Airtel Live to download free A.R.Rehman ringtone. But when you go to Airtel Live it is hard to find where it is available.When I was new to GPRS, I faced the same problem. Here is the path to download:

1. Goto Airtel Live home page.
2. Click on “Airtel Recommends“
3. If still not found click on “More…” to go to next page.
4. Now you will find “AR Rehman Tone – Free” link.
5. Click on that & download tone.

I never thought Tata Indicom is providing such a great service. If you buy any wap enabled handset from Tata Indicom, it comes with wap connection instantly! I had checked in my cousin’s mobile (Haier 1200) it was providing access to all wap sites. As I checked, there were no usage or airtime charges. They may charge you only when you download any content from their wap portal (am not sure). Many stuffs explained in this site can be done with this connection (ex: gmail ).

Here is the list of wap sites I found while browsing:

1) www.wapgautam.somee.com/wap
This site contains huge database of Bollywood polytones, wallpapers, Animations, Games…etc.
I wonder how he (Gautam) maintains this.

2) www.wap.sayni.net
Lots of downloads, Online Image Software Nicasso allows you to make your own wallpapers, Operator logos, GIFs etc. It also provides a service called gmail-mobile. This is not official gmail, but it works almost anywhere in world on any GPRS enabled handset.

3) www.geocities.com/psychonishtarian/wapsite
This too has good collection of bollywood tones, classic as well as new like Dhoom2, wallpapers, animations etc..

4) www.bestpinoy.wen.ru/main.wml

5) www.tagtag.com/orkutlogin
Here you can login to orkut from your mobile!

Note: All the above sites won’t work for free GPRS connection. You need to have Airtel Online, Spice 99 or Hutch.

There are two packages in Spice for GPRS Connection:

1) Free GPRS: With this plan you can access only Spice wap site & can download Polyphonic ring tones, Wall Papers etc (Chargeable). To activate dial *789#.

2) Rs.99 Plan: With this plan you can access any wap sites around the globe. There are many wap sites which are providing free downloads & hence you need to pay only Rs.99 & download as much as you want from free download websites. But you have to if you download from Spice website. In this plan you can also access Gmail! To activate dial *789#.

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1) Accessing Gmail on your Mobile.

2) Free Live Cricket score updates on Mobile

3) Background Music on Spice