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airtel sucks in terms of speeds!!
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Posted: 2006-04-02 17:07:41
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@shivam, why're you tryin so hard to get it to work for free then...
maybe it offers good speeds only to subscribers who pay for access
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Posted: 2006-04-02 17:34:00
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I just wanted to ask: is there a download limit for the PREPAID Airtel GPRS plan? I heard it is Rs. 5 /day . . . . is it the same as Mobile Office in POSTPAID WHICH is for for Rs.399?
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Posted: 2006-05-26 10:22:00
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Neha...I m using Airtel prepaid & ve activated Mobile Office. I pay INR 12/day unlimited upload/download & get download speeds of 20-25 KB/sec on an Class 10 EDGE enabled blokia 6681 connected 2 my laptop...trust me they don't ve limited download (even if the cc tell U they ve, as they told me but got it cleared through the GPRS tec that they don't) as I m downloading 24hrs a day...I ve downloaded more than 10 GB in less than a month & I ve not been charged more than 360 bucks. Only problem is that they share the ip with I don't howmany users & that makes it difficult downloading from sites like Rapidshare etc...other wise no problemo...infact I m quite satisfied with it.
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Posted: 2006-05-26 12:42:23
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has33 that was a nice reply. ALL i want to know now is how you pay RS 12 per day when some in Mumbai itself pay RS 5 per day? Are your schemes different or is it Airtel's stupid strategy? Lastly are you an old or new customer? Coz they differentiate so.
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Posted: 2006-05-26 17:53:00
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Well Neha, I m new on Airtel...got it only last month when I was going 2 Kashmir & wanted gprs while roaming...but I researched throughly be4 going 4 Airtel & that 2 MobileOffice...U C I wanted a FAST (EDGE enabled) gprs connection 2 connect 2 my laptop specially when I m traveling. That Rs 5/day is 4 Airtel MMS (I think...that lets U surf all the sites on the phone but U cannot connect it 2 the a pc/lappy 2 surf. Also there is some charge per MMS & download.) which won't fullfill my needs & the free Airtel live with the spartan's hack isn't very stable & high speed is still not proven on it. Over that 360 bucks a month is nothing if I m getting 2 download more than 10 GB @ 25KB/s
Also Airtel has this GOLD customer thingy in postpaid through which, even if U R new it will charge U 199/month 4 MobileOffice...but 2 be eligible U ve 2 ve high amount of outgoing calls OR U need 2 know people who work 4 Airtel
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Posted: 2006-05-26 21:25:18
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has33 thanks. but can anybody confirm if the Rs.5/day charges per download or has any other rate at all other than the monthly Rs.155/150?
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Posted: 2006-05-26 21:58:00
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Let me speak 2 the CC 2moro & I'll let U know...thats afternoon...m still awake U C
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But pls call me has that 33 was cause user name has was already taken & I ve already explained abt the Xtra "o" in bombay.
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[ This Message was edited by: has33 on 2006-05-26 22:12 ]
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Posted: 2006-05-26 23:09:05
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has thanks again. How strange! They don't mention Net on Phone anywhere on the website.
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Posted: 2006-05-27 03:20:00
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Neha...just spoke 2 the GPRS tecnical department of Airtel...The Rs. 5/day is the MMS service which doesn't let U surf the net at all...nither on the phone nor on the PC...its only for sending MMS (national & local)...was also told that existing post paid customer r gonna be charged 199/month 4 mobile office (unlimited upload/download) & all the new postpaid customers will ve 2 pay 399/month 4 mobileoffice & only the first 1024MB (1GB) is free. While the prepaid customers will ve 2 continue paying 12/day Unlimited usage.
1 last thing...if U r gonna use the net only on the phone & U don't want limited usage, I would advise U 2 go 4 the BPLMobile's BPL Wap service...its only RS.49/month & lets U go 2 ne site U phone is capable of going (In case of my P910i it was all the sites...but other phone which don't ve a full html browser[non Series 60 or UIQ or Windows Mobile phones], it will be limited 2 only the sites which R viewable in xhtml) but can't connect it 2 the PC & can't set an email account 2 auto send/receive mails on the phone...although U can go 2 the xhtml pages of Yahoo/hotmail/Gmail to check/write Ur mails. Also remember that network reception of bplmobile ain't as good as Airtel or Hutch & GPRS is not active while roaming.
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Posted: 2006-05-27 12:20:35
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