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Airtel Offering Free Facebook Access Till August 31

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India’s leading telecom operator Airtel in an attempt to make youth use its internet services via GPRS (Airtel Live), has announced a free access to the popular social networking site Facebook free till August 31, 2010. During this period, Airtel users can browse the mobile version of the Facebook site, which is currently available in English and Hindi. The company has also said the site will soon be available in five other Indian languages which include Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

How To Activate:

Just type “FACEBOOK” and send as SMS to 54323 to get started you will soon receive a reply message with the following content:

Free browsing of Facebook! Click on http://m.facebook.com to enjoy Free. To avail the free offer, Save Airtel Live Setting as default. Valid till 31 Aug 2010

Please remember that browsing any site other than Airtel Live portal and Facebook would cost you (pay per data).To surf all the websites, you need to use Airtel RC 98 which gives you unlimited mobile internet (up to 2GB) for 30 days.

It’s worth to note that Uninor, another mobile operator, is also offering similar free (sort of) access to Facebbok, twitter and LinkedIn in a different way for it’s MyConnect unlimited internet users.

Via Airtel PR

Uninor Unlimited Mobile Internet Plans Tariff

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Matching up to the mobile unlimited internet plans of the other mobile operators in India (Airtel RC 98 for instance), Uninor has launched two affordable unlimited mobile internet plans MyConnect 90 and MyConnect 9 for its customers. Uninor is a joint venture of Norway’s Telenor and India’s Unitech group. Debuted in 2009 in India, the mobile network is still relatively considered as infant in a country which is considered as the one of largest countries with high mobile penetration.

Uninor’s new mobile internet plans are in fact far more affordable than Airtel’s RC 98 and unlimited plans of some other mobile operators. If we compare the Airtel’s RC 98 with Uninor MyConnect 90:

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Airtel RC 98 Vs Uninor MyConnect 90

>> Airtel’s data transfer limit is 2 GB where as Uninor’s Rs.90 pack gives internet browsing worth 3 GB for free

>> Uninor is offering free browsing for Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn sites (meaning that the data browsed will not be counted under the data usage limit)  where as Airtel doesn’t. Considering  fact that most of the youth in India spend their browsing these social networking sites, it saves a lot of data

>> Uninor being a relatively new entrant with less subscriber base, hence the network congestion should be less and this in turn should result in a better browsing speeds at least theoretically when compared to Airtel with huge number of users like you trying to access the internet.

Uninor Unlimited internet tariff plans:

Internet Plans Price Benefit Validity Charges
MyConnect 90 Rs. 90 Free internet browsing up to 3 GB 30 days 10p/10kb beyond free usage
MyConnect 9 Rs. 9 Free internet browsing up to 60 MB 3 days 10p/10kb beyond free usage

Advantages:

– Unlimited internet access (3 days for Rs.9 pack, 30 days for Rs. 90 pack)

– Free browsing for social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Airtel RC 250 Unlimited GPRS Internet Pack

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Indian Telecom giant Airtel has just launched a new mobile unlimited internet (GPRS) pack RC 250 which gives unlimited internet browsing, valid for 90 days. All though they say it is unlimited internet, there’s however a cap of 8GB limit on the usage. Airtel is now riding on the success of RC 98 unlimited mobile internet pack, after which the company had also announced a new RC 24 which gives 200 MB worth of internet for a period of 5 days. This new RC 250 is aimed at users who are using only their mobile phones to connect to internet for longer periods instead of broadband.

While we await more information on this new internet recharge coupon from Airtel, you can listen to the following recorded audio file for the announcement of this new coupon from the Airtel customer care.

Tip:

Once you have recharged your mobile with RC250 through easy recharge, you can sms MO to 543210 to receive mobile office settings to your GPRS enabled phone.

Airtel’s Free Speed Upgrade Dhamaka For Broadband Users

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Airtel, one of the India’s top broadband ISP has taken revolutionary step to provide a minimum internet browsing speeds of 512 Kbps to all the  broadband customers in India.

This could change the face of whole internet in India if other broadband service providers take this seriously and come up with similar steps to provide Hi Speed internet at affordable price.

In a press announcement released today by Airtel, the company announces that it will upgrade the speeds of all the existing customers to 512 Kbps by June 2010 notably at “no extra cost”.Also customers with 512 Kbps and 1 Mbps plans would get double speed upgrade to 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps respectively.

Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service providers, in an unprecedented move is upgrading speeds of all its existing customers (on 64, 128, 256 Kbps) to a minimum of 512 Kbps. Further, customers currently on 512 Kbps plans and 1mbps plans will have their speeds doubled to 1Mbps and 2Mbps respectively.

Airtel has also announced the launch of ‘Impatience Plans’ offering internet browsing speeds of 4 Mbps starting from as low as Rs. 899.

Airtel Impatience Plans Tariff  (4 Mbps):

Plan Name

Impatience 899

Impatience 1099

Impatience 1399

Impatience 1799

Speed

4 Mbps

4 Mbps

4 Mbps

4 Mbps

Rental (Rs.)

899

1099

1399

1799

High Speed Download (in GB)

6

12

25

50

Option 1: Unlimited Data Transfer Plan

Post Hi Speed download continue browsing @ 256 Kbps

Option 2: Continuous High Speed Plan

Continue at 4 Mbps @ 10 paise/MB per additional MB (Post High Speed download)

Kudos to Airtel for this wonderful speed upgrade, we hope this could help in taking broadband in India to a next level.

If you don’t know yet, Airtel is also offering Unlimited mobile internet (GPRS) at Rs.98 apart from offering free unlimited national and local SMS.

Update: Well, we have yet another free broadband speed upgrade, this time from Hyderabad based Beam Telecom, read Beam Tele free speed upgrade report.

Airtel Offering Unlimited Mobile Internet (Via GPRS) With RC 98

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It’s offers time for Airtel users in India.Few days back we have blogged about Airtel launching unlimited national & local SMS offer.Now Airtel is also offering unlimited internet via GPRS for its mobile users.

Launch of many of these unlimited plans can be attributed to the on-going Indian Premier League (IPL) 2010.Airtel thought this would be the big opportunity introduce some offers and get the attention of the users, for that matter targeting mainly youth section of the users.We need to recall that Airtel once used to offer unlimited (virtually) GPRS internet in the forms daily pack and monthly pack.And now as Aircel and Tata Docomo are offering similar plans which are attracting the younger generation, Airtel had no option left but to come out with such unlimited offers.

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We can see Airtel promoting unlimited SMS offer, Unlimited GPRS internet offer and reduced night calling rates offer through Sharman Joshi of  “3 Idiots” Bollywood movie fame.

Unlimited Internet Plan Tariff:

Prepaid:

May vary depending on your circle.For most circles you have to do a recharge for MRP Rs. 98 /- (RC 98) in order to activate this offer which is valid for one month from the date of activation.You can also dail #567 from your Airtel mobile if you have balance more than Rs. 110+ and opt not to go for a separate recharge.

Postpaid:

Postpaid users can avail this offer for a monthly rental of Rs. 98.SMS “INTERNET” to 121 to activate this pack.

For more information, visit Airtel mobile internet offers page.

Note:

This unlimited plan is not truly ‘unlimited’, as it has a limit for data usage up to 2 GB, beyond this limit, the data usage will be charged 30paise/50KB.

The free usage includes data browsed only through Mobile Office (MO) settings.Be careful here, of you activate this pack but still use browsing using Airtel Live settings, you’ll be charged for that.

To get Mobile Office internet settings, SMS “MO” to 543210 (Toll Free)

You can use this pack even while roaming in India, however it doesn’t apply to international roaming.

Update: You may also want checkout Uninor’s unlimited mobile internet plan Rs.90

Airtel Announces Unlimited National SMS Packs Across India

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Airtel which has enjoyed the monopoly over the Indian mobile services is now facing the stiffest competition from the other mobile operators who have slashed down rates and are coming up with innovative offers, thanks to the likes of Tata Docomo and others like Aircel.Even Reliance is pulling large number of mobile users through their “Simply Reliance” plans that offers cheaper national /roaming calls and SMS.

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Airtel seems to be working out on minimizing the users migration, and it is evident now as they have come up with the Unlimited National & Local SMS pack across India.

The only difference is that unlike Reliance, which is offering the uniform rates across all the states, Airtel is offering this service for different tariff rates for different states.

Airtel is promoting this offer big time through Television Ads with “3 Idiots” fame Sharman Joshi.

Check out this Airtel Unlimited SMS Pack page to find out the exact tariff for your circle (for prepaid subscribers).

Postpaid subscribers can enjoy this Unlimited National/Local SMS pack at a monthly rental of Rs. 99.SMS “UNLIMITED” to 121 to activate this SMS pack.

Note:

  • This is not actually fully unlimited offer, Fair usage policy applies to this, meaning that there may be limit on the number of SMSs that you send on any given day (ex: 500 SMS per day !)
  • The free SMS offer doesn’t work on the Customary/ Festival days (Blackout days), Airtel will charge Rs, 1 per local SMS, Rs 1.50 per national SMS on these days.