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BSNL/EDGE

July 5, 2007 Pari Leave a comment Go to comments

If like me you’ve been desperately searching everywhere on how to get BSNL EDGE working, here it is:

First sign up for the service. This can be done over SMS. If you have a prepaid service, send an SMS to 53733 with the message “GPRSPRE”. I have no idea what it is for postpaid (maybe GPRSPOST?). I think it deducts an activation charge of around Rs. 200. After a few hours, you will get a message saying your service is activated. Then configure your phone with the settings below.

Settings:

The following settings are for the Samsung SGH-J210. This setting works with Opera and the J210’s default browser OpenWave.

Proxy IP: (no proxy)
Proxy Port: (no proxy)
APN: gprssouth.cellone.in
Login ID: 91xxxxxxxxxx
Password: 91xxxxxxxxxx

Alternative:

I found this alternative configuration setting also works, but it works only with OpenWave, not with Opera:

Proxy IP: 10.31.54.2
Proxy Port: 9401
APN: wapsouth.cellone.in
Login ID: ppp
Password: ppp123

Depending on signal quality (distance from tower) you might not get EDGE speeds, and the connection will downgrade itself to GPRS. On my Samsung J210 a GPRS connection appears as a “G” icon, and EDGE as “E” icon.

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  1. Varun
    March 15, 2009 at 3:22 pm | #1
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    I am using Nokia 5220 xpressmusic phone. It displays “E” signal but i didn’t speed is not great similar to one which I used with airtel GPRS. Though download speed is approx 8-9 kbps but not all the time. What worse is that at night time it becomes worst. Even the connection does not establishes at night. Bsnl Tower is just a few meters from my home.