Have you ever wished for that you could use BSNL GPRS because its cheap and quite fast. But your dreams always fall down because of one silly reason You have no information where to begin and how to procede.Or you are sufferer of BSNL techies, Customer care Guys and other BSNL authorities who know so little about their own product! who never pick your call or never have answers to your Queries. I was one of the sufferer and found aferward there are lots like me. After i became successful in getting BSNL GPRS working ;I thought I must share my knowledge whatsoever i've gained to people like me, who still havn't got the ground yet- can have some answers. Hope you will be able to use this informations and will never have to look towards BSNL. lets begin...
BSNL Postpaid GPRS Plans.
BSNL has two GPRS plans for postpaid users.
Plan I
Activation Fee: nil
Rental: Rs. 49 per month
Usage limit: 5 MB
Overlimit usage charge: 1 paise per KB
MMS charge: Rs. 3
Usage charges on roaming: 2 paise per KB
Plan II
Activation Fee: nil
Rental: Rs. 199 per month
Usage limit: Unlimited
MMS charge: Rs. 3
Usage charges on roaming: 2 paise per KB
BSNL GPRS Plan for Prepaid Users
The charges for BSNL GPRS for prepaid users are as under.
Activation Fee: nil
Monthly rental: nil
Usage charge: 2 paise per KB
MMS charge: Rs. 3
Usage charges on roaming: 2 paise per KB
There are Two ways to activate BSNL GPRS.
ONE:Send following SMS to 3733
GPRSPRE [for prepaid customer]
GPRS49 [for postpaid customer who opt for plan 49]
GPRS199 [for postpaid customer who opt for pal 199]
send tis SMS TO 8355 choosing anyone according to your plan .
Second: Go to your local BSNL office. Fill one form for GPRS activation. They will activate your BSNL GPRS manually.
There ar Four ways to get proper settings.i will write them in decending priority order.
One: Sending following SMS to 8355.
[your Manufecturer Name] [Model No.] eg. NOKIA 6600, MOTORALA c168
SECOND: Go to website www.cellone.in. In one corner there is written get settings for GPRS/WAP./MMS. Go to that link choose your state enter your cellno. in format +91414....... send it. you will immediatly get settings save them
THIRD: is enter settings manually. For keeping it short here i'm not writting all settingson seperate page Here Manual Settings. go to this page for entering settings manually. IMP: Those who want to use GPRS on laptop, they will need to enter some strings into their computers. so you have to read this page for sure.
FOUR: Call Customer care of BSNL at NOrth zone +919400024365. I dont know CC no. for others zone yet. and i dont think they will be of any use. first they will never pick your call if they do, they will only tell you what they are told to cram few lines. NEVER USE THIS OPTION.
After you do above things, you will get setting 4 settings namely bsnlgprs, bsnlwap, bsnlportal, bsnlmms. Save all these settings. sometime phone model will ask a security Pin for saving settings for BSNL this PIN is 1111.
While saving settings, you may be prompted by your phone that all slots are occupied and do you want to replace Set? click Yes, replace set. and save all of them. they will be saved at there proper place.
Choose bsnlgprs as your 'active settings' in most case this will work.
'bsnlportal'- chooing this as active setting wil allow you to surf only BSNL homepage wap.cellone.in. the surfing is free. you will not be charged to view the contents. but if you download the contents you will be charged anything from 10rs to 75Rs.
'bsnlwap'- choosing this as default setting this will allow you to surf any site on mobile. say yahoo.com, google.com, rediff.com. the surfing is paid you will be charged according to above plan you choose. downloading contants will be charged as par content provider's charges.
'bsnlgprs'- choosing this setting will allow you to connect your mobile to PC/Laptop and you can surf internet on your laptop/PC using your MObile and GPRS on. besides this, you will be needed to enter some settings into your computer to make this thing work. Go to manual settings page for more details.
'bsnlmms'- this setting is setted automatically. using this as 'activcted settings you will be able to send MMS to any other person who also use GPRS. remember! by this method you cant send MMS to anyone... you can send only to those who have GPRS. to be true, with so slow speed MMS never work if you are not living in metros.
You can connect your Mobile to Computer using any one of the three things according to what your Phone supports.
1. DATA Cable- all of the phones which have Web GPRS/MMS/JAVA enables have this port at bottom of the phone. Connect the DATA cable which your manuf. ask in there manual. connect it to SerialBus port or Parallel Port. If you don't know what they are Pl don't read this and jump to next topic.
2.Using infrared port- See if your Phone support Infrared. Sometime written in short as InRD. You must have Infrared reader installed in your PC. Put your InRD reception ON.put InRD output of your mobile in direction opposite to and just nearer to Computer's InRD. Infrared need proximity to work.
3. Blue tooth- See if your Phone Support BlueTooth. If it do put your Blutooth reception on and put it nere to your Computers Bluetooth reception point. proximity is not necessary. The external Infrared and bluetooth Port can be purchased <1000rs and they are not needed to be put into your CPU. so this is also a good option.
You can use using DKU2/ DKU5/ CA 42 cable. See your Phone Manual. or goto your phone's website and see what the manuf. recommends i mean which datacable they recommand. purchase it. you will get a Driver CD do as following
1. Dont put datacable tinto your PC First Install the driver.
2. Then restart your computer.
3. Now put the data cable in Serial Port (mostly).You computer should detact this Data cable as new hardware automatically and should install the driver.
4. Switch of your computer and restart it once again.
5. Now, Put your data cable into Mobile phone. on conneccting to mobile phone, it will inform you as cable connected/enhancment connected etc.
6. Install your Mobile suite came along with your CD or install it from Internet. eg NOKIA PC SUITE 6.7
7. Look into the settings- your Mobile Suite should recognize your Phone and Model. if it dosn't this mean a lot of hard work will go into to make it work as there is no single reason for non-recogniation. Go to some internet forumn like esato.com or other forum for help. This is best way.
If get recognize you can transfer anything to and from mobile to your PC like games/wallpapers/application/Music/videos/Datas/ToDo/addrese book etc.
There are few more things to write in this topic as i feel this topic isn't completed yet.
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You will need a BSNL Sim [lol], a Mobile phone which supports Web connectivity- Look for before you purchase your phone. They may write WEB feature as GPRS/ WEB/ Connection/ etc. Purchase phone which support JAVA/GPRS/MMS and having minimum memory of >500KB. This is minimum you will need to surf internet on your mobile and enjoying some games/ wallpapers/ applications.
See. section activating BSNL GPRS above. In short you can activate by sending SMS GPRSPRE to 3733 for prepaid and GPRS49 / GPRS199 for postpaid. This will activate GPRS mostly in 48hr theoritically and in few hr. prectically.If this doesnt work or if this facility is not available for your region then goto your local BSNL office. ASk a form for activation GPRS and fill it.
There is no activation fees in both Prepaid and post paid palns.People including BSNL authorities who says you should have 1000 rs. minimum balance for reactivation They are wrong. Although my advice is-its best to activate GPRS with minimum balance of 100 Rs. You must want to enjoy it on first day. that is the only reason :)
NO! there is no fixed monthly rentals for prepaid BSNL GPRS. There is NO activation fees and No monthly charges. Rest ashured with me. I'm prepaid user of BSNL gprs for 2 yrs now.
yes! according to plan you choose to activate is free but you will have to pay fix monthly charrges 199 Rs. per months in pPlan 199 and in paln 49 you have to pay 49rs monthely in addition to charges for uploading and downloading Datas (1 paisa/KB) in accordance with free limits of downloadings [see table 1.1].
you can surf GPRS till you have some paisa in your account. The time your account becaome zero (no balance) your GPRS connection will be switched off. Upone recharging your balance your GPRS will get reactivated automatically. Some people found their connection doesn't startup on recharging. see Tips and Trick section handling this Q.
Download it via SMS sending your "Manufecturer Name" "Model No" eg. NOKIA 6600 to 8355. you can also download it by sending it from internet. Go to www.cellone.in. Go to 'send me GPRS/MMS settings' section. You can set manually also see above.
BSNL has divided India for its functions by mean of servers in 4 different zones. North South, East, West. NORTH include- JK, Delhi, HP, Punjab, Haryana, Western UP, MP, Rajasthan WEST includes- Gujarat, Maharsthra, Goa, AP, Daman Diu. EAST-Eastern UP , Bihar, Jharkhand, W. Bengal, Orrisa, Sikkim, Arunachal P, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura. SOUTH iclude- Kerala,Lakshdweep, TN, Karnataka, AP,A&N, Pond.
There is a difference. You can get proper settings via SMS or www.cellone.in site.
NO! Not Now. there use to be different settings for Prepaid/Post paid. But it is not now that case. All settings are same for prepaid/postpaid. you just have to make your settings work for you. Some companies like NOKIA/MOTORALA who make india oriented phone give preinstalled settings as bsnlpo, bsnlpre. Don't use those preinstalled settings. they wil not work. Get settings by sending SMS only.
See settings section. But for one line answer put bsnlgprs as your active setting for all uses.
for surfing on mobile- activate "wap' for surfing on laptop or PC using Mobile activate "GPRS" if you only want to surf Cellone.in which is Free to surf but paid for content downloading use "Portal" as your "active settings". See settings
They will work, but you need to have some patience.First try yourself. if failed, Take help from mobile jukiees among your friends, relatives, local mobile shoppe, Customer care of BSNL, BSNL authorities. They will tweek (make some setting changes) your mobile to make it work. Don't hesitate to ask younger generations they know better than us about new tecnologies. If all fails ask it on some netforum. I will refer to this forumn- www.esato.com many people like me are there to answer you. ask me personally [nickname gaumesi as @gaumesi ] or senior guys like @freeworld4u @ajeet for more quick replies.
BSNL will send you a SMS saying "GPRS on your Number has been activated with efect from date dd.mm.yy" if you want to confirm it before you start surfing pl activate one setting called Connection-> "Always Remain Online" in NOkia. look for it somewhere in settings. For other Manuf. model i dont know but ask me i will try to look for you. when you will see 'G' in nokia at one corner of you mobile screen that will make you sure that GPRS have been activated on your mobile phone now. One you become sure Pl turn this setting to "Only When Needed". when you will see a Square around G that shows you are surfing GPRS now.
Old Phone having WAP1.0 are unable to show normal webpages you can download 'opera Mini' browser as application to surf normal pages. For New Phones having WAP 2.0 you can surf all pages normal HTML pages or WAP pages. But remember you will get a normal Webpage into many breaks like one www.rediff.com page will appear as 6 small broken pages. its always comfortable to surf WAP pages on mobile eg. wap.rediff.com.
WAP pages are webpages especially designed for your Mobile Internet Browsing. All major Sites which you frequently use have their Mobile version of their websites. Some biggies have adapted their site so nicely that even if you will type normal web address they will recognize that you are surfing on Mobile and will automatically land you to their mobile site. Eg. type www.yahoo.com -> wap.yahoo.com
www.google.com -> wap.google.com, www.cnn.com ->mobile.cnn.com, www.flickr.com-> m.flickr.com
One way is connect GPRS to your laptop and surf it in normal browser. another way is to use large screen mobile phone. thrid way is bear with this and see your site in breaks. Because currently there is no way by which a normal websites which dont adapt themself for mobile can be seen without breaks.
you will need lot of checking to make it work. you have to ask your problem in forum.
YES, ofcourse. Indians look for free much more then purchasing. you will get a big list on www.nokiasoftware.nl for all free downloading. some good free sites are www.getjar.com, www.mobile9.com, www.mobango.com, www.mobilemastee.com., www.zedge.com etc
Best way is surf internet on PC choose what you want download it on your PC send it to mobile using Data Cable, Infrared, Bluetooth using some MObile PC suite. another way is go to internet->look for the NO./Id of that note it down. surf on your mobile GPRS. go to that site punch that no./Id and download directly. that will save your precious money. See below link section for details.
EDGE is a technology which allow Fast GPRS connection. They are built in your phone and your normal GPRS connection works for this EDGE enabled phones. 3G in layman term is broadband for mobile (if GPRS is Dial Up of mobile). 3G will let you download live streaming contents like video etc to your Mobile phones very easily. NO company in India have Launched 3G services and so 3G enabled phones are not available in general. Some company have launched high ended phone with 3G facilities in light of fact that 3G soon will be available in India.
www.cellone.in,
www.bsnl.co.in,
www.celloneindia.com. www.cellone.in is best and most upto date site. In any case of changes pl look info on this site. You can also get help for GPRS by sending a SMS- HELPGPRS to 3733.
YA,after all said an written; this is an important question. If you are a prepaid user- keeping GPRS coonection dosen't harm you as there is no monthely Charges. another way is throw yout SIM buy a new one (LoL) and third option read ahead.. for postpaid users who totaly got irritated with BSNL GPRS and don't want to keep it (but want to keep the SIM) you can deactivate your GPRS connection. GO to your local BSNL Office. Fill a form called 'Activation/Deactivation services' Tick mark Deactivate. Tick mark GPRS. fill your Mobile no. sign it and give it to Proper BSNL Authority. They will Deactivate your GPRS service and will inform you (via SMS.. i don't know.. never heard somebody ever deactivated this!! as most users are now prepaid users)