GPRS enabled SIM card for my mobile phone

Dr. Gajaprishthakara

Hi all,

While my searches indicate that all the words in the heading have been discussed, I can't locate an answer to my question:

I have an O2 Exec PDX (a phone that also runs Windows Mobile, has internet connection capability, email etc etc.

In Australia, I purchased a SIM card for the phone which gives me 100MB per month of data connection. I would like the same thing in India. Any ideas?

I have looked at the Airtel GPRS card but this appears to be a larger card for connection to a laptop.

Apologies if this HAS been discussed.

All assistance appreciated.

Epicure

try hutch for internet access. the following link gives more details.

http://www.hutch.in/PlanetHutch/Plan...utchaccess.asp

Dr. Gajaprishthakara

thanks epicure

Dr. Gajaprishthakara

For anyone interested, this was pretty idiot-proof.

In Kerala, I bought an Airtel prepaid sim card for 299 roops - this has 100 roops of talk time [SMS within india is 0.15 roops and international isw 3.0 roops. Talk time seems to be a bargain (for prepaid) 1 roop per minute]

At the same time, I bought an Airtel GPRS card for 250 roops which gives unlimited GPRS/EDGE access for one month. You need to follow the directions on the card [duh] and the data access should follow about 24 hours later. NOTE: soft reboot your phone every now and then if 24 hours has passed without connection. When it asks on reboot if it can reconfigure, just answer yes.

Dr. Gajaprishthakara

and....

you can get an unlimited one year card for 1999 roops.

There is a catch for both the one month and one year cards - NO ROAMING.

Also - it is a little slower than I was experiencing in Australia (suprising as Australia has third world telecommunications).

presto

Dr. can you give some more info about the airtel gprs card ? i too am going to cochin soon. how is this different from the sim card?

Dr. Gajaprishthakara

hey presto!

the sim is the sim. the data card goes no where near your phone. it is a piece of cardboard with a number under a scratch section. you scratch, sniff and follow the directions on the card to send the data access number to airtel using your phone. within 48 hours you should be connected. let me know if there is still confusion.

regards.

presto

ok thanks got it.
how was the speeds like? did your phone have EDGE? as its usually faster on edge enabled phones. anything around 30kBps i will be happy

also this is full fledged gprs right? meaning i can browse normal websites and NOT just wap sites. only thing next i have to figure out is how to connect my phone to my laptop via bluetooth and get internet on laptop

Dr. Gajaprishthakara

on that last point - when you figure it out, let me know. I ended up getting an <un>reliance card for the pc and it is often slower than the phone.

the phone data connection on airtel will depend somewhat on location but have found it to be very good <unlike the reliance card>.

yes, my phone has Edge but you can have either that or GPRS capability on your fone with this data connection.

if your phone is capable of performing fully-fledged internet, then this data connection will do it.

when are you coming to kochi?

presto

will be in cochin in about 2 weeks frm today.
i have the part about using internet on my laptop with phone's gprs over bluetooth kinda figured out.
will test it out and let you know by end of the month.

shere

Hi,

I picked up a windows mobile smart phone yesterday for £23.

I need to know the settings I should use for Airtel gprs.


In particular :

Access Point
User name
Password
Primary DNS
Secondary DNS
IP Address

Thanks in advance.

presto

access point: airtelgprs.com
everything else blank

make sure gprs is activated and its best to ask them to send you the settings which gets automatically installed into your phone.