Airtel hikes Mobile Office prices!

K

This is an sms i received from Airtel today
"Dear Customer, currently you are charged a daily rental of Rs.7 for GPRS. Effective 27 Aug.07. Charges for GPRS are revised to Rs.14.99/day Airtel GPRS is still most economical option for internet access compared to DialUp,Cable etc.If u still wish to deactivate the service, sms GPRSDEACT to 222"
When i started to read this message, i expected to see a drop in price in the current price. But when i saw 14.99/day, my jaw went somewhere in the vicinity of the floor. This is outrageous! How can they do this to us? I've been using MO since past 2 years only because it was super cheap and unlimited. And now they suddenly double the price. What were they smokin? I don't have Ambani for a surname. 15 rupees is way to much. Its even higher than the earlier 12/day rate. I certainly won't be able to afford to pay 15 rupees per day (450/month :shock:

). Only option for me is to discontinue MO. No MO, no net. No net, no thinkdigit. It was nice knowing you all :-(

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krazyfrog said:
Only option for me is to discontinue MO. No MO, no net. No net, no thinkdigit. It was nice knowing you all.

You can always switch your provider. Try Hutch, Idea and others

Airtel sucks. they are increasin price of everything and closin all free things, for example they closed free sms plan here in BANGALORE

hey its rs 19 here in punjab..

Bloody sh1t... First of all the MO speeds suck.. Now they r increasing the price too...
Seems like my net ll be gone too... but i didnt receive any such sms..
krazy r u on normal prepaid or lifetime???
and Dont worry krazy i m with u..
Bye bye Internet, Bye bye Digit, Bye bye All

krazyfrog said:
This is an sms i received from Airtel today
"Dear Customer, currently you are charged a daily rental of Rs.7 for GPRS. Effective 27 Aug.07. Charges for GPRS are revised to Rs.14.99/day Airtel GPRS is still most economical option for internet access compared to DialUp,Cable etc.If u still wish to deactivate the service, sms GPRSDEACT to 222"
When i started to read this message, i expected to see a drop in price in the current price. But when i saw 14.99/day, my jaw went somewhere in the vicinity of the floor. This is outrageous! How can they do this to us? I've been using MO since past 2 years only because it was super cheap and unlimited. And now they suddenly double the price. What were they smokin? I don't have Ambani for a surname. 15 rupees is way to much. Its even higher than the earlier 12/day rate. I certainly won't be able to afford to pay 15 rupees per day (450/month ).

Even i have been a victim of this situation. There was a time when i used to boast about airtel coz of its gprs being as cheap as 7rs/day and unlimited download. Even though i use a nokia 6600, a stone-age phone as compared to my friends' phones like n73 and w810i, still they ate humble pie when it came to gprs. With airtel gprs, it was literally like "Karlo duniya mutthi mein"...

Alas :sad:

those days are gone.......

krazyfrog said:
Only option for me is to discontinue MO. No MO, no net. No net, no thinkdigit. It was nice knowing you all.

pathiks said:
Dont worry krazy i m with u..
Bye bye Internet, Bye bye Digit, Bye bye All

............
Switch over to NOP

just wat i m probably gonna do

But NOP is too fkin slow... also it has many other probs...
also no more apps like profimail, implus etc etc..

K

@charangk- All others are more expensive than Airtel. They charge on the basis of data transfered+monthly rentals. While Airtel only charges on per day basis with no monthly rentals, plus its unlimited.
pathik i'm a lifetime user.

pathiks said:
But NOP is too fkin slow... also it has many other probs...
also no more apps like profimail, implus etc etc..

Yeah but then u can always access digit on pc thru proxy. Use opera. It works. Worth 2 bucks. And c'mon pathiks, we need u and krazyfrog and other members.

A Hike of more than 100%

No wonder I detest Airtel like anything

There ll be a big outrage soon.. many people take airtel sims to use the gprs only.. btw even i m a lifetime user..
i hope vodafone comes in soon and brings good gprs plans..

krazyfrog said:
@charangk- All others are more expensive than Airtel. They charge on the basis of data transfered+monthly rentals. While Airtel only charges on per day basis with no monthly rentals, plus its unlimited.
pathik i'm a lifetime user.

hey , what is the price of unlimited plan?is that plan available in maharastra

R

i too am on gprs but haven't got any such mess. btw how are some of yall plans 7rs/day mine is 11.99/day and i have to sms 511 for activation?

A

omg....

but i don get any sms or any such news here....

hope airtel is not gonna raise dere rental to all states...
it seems for some particulat states only....
In jamshedpur we have only montly plan ie rs.249/month UL
am getting the best speed with Airtel after some tweaks....
If it raise for rs400 too i am ready for them coz am getting good speed and i the part is moblility which cant be compared with any dial up or bb

M

Pathiks and Krazyfrog plz dont say this ,u r gods of this forum,without u thinkdigit ki jaan chali jayegi!Btw theres ul plan from dolphin/trump for 400rs i will let u know in 1-2 days.I think we have 27th as deadline for deactivating MO.

hey krazyfrog, you are bit lucky, in Bangalore it 20 Rs per day

i use Airtel online and browse via opera

. i use MO only on sundays. and i used MO free for 5 months due to some fault

K

I think they only increased the price for Mumbai subscribers. Bloody hell! What do they think we Mumbaiites have bottomless wallets or something?
@pushkraj, mandar5 thanks for your comments guys.

Seriously now MO is of no use.
Forget Net,thinkdigit & get back to serious studies.

this was expected. first they scrapped the sms offer, then increased call rates, then lowered the talktime on recharge now even the gprs services are hit! that is bad..and that is really bad. i think we should drag these ******** to consumer court. this is daylight robbery! all service providers are minting money thru the nokia battery enquiry, then they also get to suck the customers on national and state holidays by charging re.1 per sms. cellphone usage is going to dogs in this country!

Isn't Hutch/Idea providing that Rs 5/day for unlimited GPRS plan anymore?

^^ Not hutch mumbai..

its 10 ps for 10 kb here by hutch

here charges r still 249/month UL.but speeds hav hit an alltime low of 1-1.5kBps max for more than 2 weeks.most of the time i get dl speeds in Bps.also EDGE stays deactivated.Airtel is no longer provides quality service.

S

In Maharashtra except Mumbai they are charging Rs.12/day. It was mere Rs.5/day when I bought my connection with Airtel. But soon they increased it to current rate. So I discontinued using it.

Well!!!! BSNL is d cheapest in Maharashtra. Evn 4 Maharashtra circle airtel must have/must b planing 2 increase d rental.

BSNL offers d same speed, bettr connectivity at just Rs.199/pm for unlimited usage!!! Thnkfully I shifted to BSNL b4 Airtel cud eat into my pocket...

Mumbai ppl must b having something similar to BSNL frm MTNL....

Y dont u ppl try using Maharashtra card in mumbai (after confirming BSNL wont charge roaming GPRS in Mumbai)

A

^^^ Akshay
hey we know about BSNL's gprs plan but never had any experience so we don like to take chance with BSNL...
cud u plz tell us more about BSNL gprs?
means howz the speed and other infos....
so that we can think for BSNL, Does BSNL provide EDGE? I think this comes in Postpaid only... not for prepaid user....isint

Airtel MO SUCKS (as of now) .. my opinion :

2 years ago : Rs 99 INR , unlimited , awesome browsing and downloading .. peaked at around 12-14 KBps with Motorola C350/C650

, and at around 32-34 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping (some ip i don't remember now) was around 200

after some time : Rs 249 , unlimited , slow browsing , but consistent downloading .. peaked at around 28-30 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping around 350

after introducing EDGE : same price , unlimited , slow browsing , slow downloading , peaked at around 16-18 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping around 850 :shock:

Recent Plan : Rs. 499 , unlimited , slow browsing , slow downloading , peaks at around 14-18 KBps ... donno what happened coz i shifted to BB :idea:

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What a joke .. i presume the next step will be to make the data transfer limited. .. lol ..

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deathvirus_me said:
What a joke .. i presume the next step will be to make the data transfer limited. .. lol ..

agreed LOL

well said mate...me to uses MO since its rental was only 99 ....

K

I feel that MO speeds have increased sisce yesterday. Usually at night MO would totally stop working due to network congestion. But not since yesterday. I guess they've upgraded the network a bit and thats why hiked their prices. But still 15/day is too much money. Whats the point of improving gprs when half the cutomers have deactivated it?

A

^^^
imo speed increased coz lots of cc are disconneting MO

as number of user decrease : Bytes increase

coz we airtel use dynamic ip... and as per airtel cc exe bytes are shared among the numbers of users are active that time

S

@akshay
Please I too want to know about the BSNL plans. I am also live in Pune, so your experiance with BSNL will tell me more accurately the situation with BSNL GPRS connection. Since when you are using it? Is it available only in Postpaid or even in Prepaid connection? What speed you get with it?

I am paying Rs. 500 per month with airtel. thought not very happy but i get decent speeds in the night.....somewhere between 10-12Kbps.

went hutch but they said they charge based on the download and it is 10p for 10K that is way to high...it is like Rs 10 for 1mb or so....

I download 100-120mb every night.....

deathvirus_me said:
Airtel MO SUCKS (as of now) .. my opinion :

2 years ago : Rs 99 INR , unlimited , awesome browsing and downloading .. peaked at around 12-14 KBps with Motorola C350/C650 , and at around 32-34 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping (some ip i don't remember now) was around 200

after some time : Rs 249 , unlimited , slow browsing , but consistent downloading .. peaked at around 28-30 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping around 350

after introducing EDGE : same price , unlimited , slow browsing , slow downloading , peaked at around 16-18 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping around 850

Recent Plan : Rs. 499 , unlimited , slow browsing , slow downloading , peaks at around 14-18 KBps ... donno what happened coz i shifted to BB ..

What a joke .. i presume the next step will be to make the data transfer limited. .. lol ..

Could not have said better

M

what abt postpaid scene is it still 199 per month...guys call the call center and confirm and only 1 guy has confirmed the stuff so far...

why no other guy has received the message call customer care and ask u have heard this rumours is it true or else money might get detected

many friends of mine got the msg.. And yea its true..

M

so now what abt postpaid scenario...its almost heartbreak for me...i was gettin n73 me jus for this one

krazyfrog said:
I think they only increased the price for Mumbai subscribers. Bloody hell! What do they think we Mumbaiites have bottomless wallets or something?
@pushkraj, mandar5 thanks for your comments guys.

not in Mumbai only, they also hikes rate in kolkata circle also from july, they now charges Rs.498 :-x

for MO, i already disconnected it....

^^^ didnt know that.hope tht they dont inc rates for postpaid here.else i'll hav to disconnect it.

K

I ain't disconnecting it until 26 mid-night. Gonna use every last minute of the 'Affordable MO'.

M

btw what made them to do such insane stuff????

10 would had been fine but increasing it to more than double is damn insane.....i pay 550 per month for a broadband connection where monthly download limit is 1gn and downloads from 11pm to 9 am are free.....and most importantly its a 512kbps connection....i download ard 20+gb everymonth...will the same be possible by MO??nope this is totally insane......

K

Friends Any1 Knows Affordable Cheap Isp ?
Mobile / Wireless Isps

I hav used Airtel GPRS b4 shifting to BSNL. BSNL GPRS connects immediately n their service is hardly down. Thr r no issues opening sites like orkut or odr sites whr Airtel suffers. Evn 4 downloading from rapidshare, BSNL is bettr.

BSNL provides EDGE. I dunno abt prepaid GPRS but for Postpaid it is Rs.199pm.

I wud rate BSNL Speed bettr den Airtel (wit Airtel I got speed newhr between 3KBpb - 13KBps. But wit BSNL it is always arnd or above 5KBps upto 14KBps.

D only downside of BSNL is their Customer care. If u hav a prb., u SHUD go 2 d BSNL office of ur area n get ur prb solved.

A

Thanks akshay for ur review
lemme me check local area bsnl office...

In Chennai,there is no change in Airtel MO rates:

1)Rs20/day for unlimited browsing

2)Rs75/week for unlimited browsing

1) & 2) are applicable to all Airtel prepaid customers including 'Lifetime' prepaid,

3) Rs.375 special recharge with 0 talktime and unlimited GPRS with 30days validity: Applicable to all prepaid except 'Lifetime".

So,it is already expensive in Chennai ! hence there is no change!!

Hello Freinds You Talked About Airtel MO Retal In maharastra Its rs 12\day Amd InFact In Tamil NAdu Its RS 20\day How About that........But Well I dont HAve Any Problem Because I m Using Free Internet over GPRS Bandwidth of 160 KBPS

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prince_venom said:
I m Using Free Internet over GPRS Bandwidth of 160 KBPS

FREE GPRS
hawwwwwwwwwww?

M

Airtel MO is for internet only...@prince

and which extra ordinary mobile u have which provides that speed in kilo bytes.....????

and dude when it was 7 than doubling the rate is not justified...even the earlier highest would had been ok but this is almost looting now..unless they provide 256kbps on internet which isnt possible on edge.....u need 3G

S

@prince
Where do you stay??? Another country?? How it is possible that you get "160KBps" speed in India? Even with 3G technology it is very rare. But "160 kbps" or "20KBps" is possible with very good handset, and I think even to achieve this speed EDGE is required.

hey dont stop net man... Airtel Alwayz SUCKZ !!.,..
ere in gujarat itz 12Rs/month... nd
M Havin Airtel Network Problm Too..
so change Airtel.. buy IDEA or HUTCh....
anyway tc ! have a gr8 time ahead !

M

somone clear me suppose i have 15.02 balance than what????than still 14.99 will be deducted????

also are there special scehmes like for whole month net it reduces price to 375 instead of 450 and so on???

no reply to my last question

Me on NOP now..

pathiks said:
Me on NOP now..

Good to see u again. Me too on NOP

R

dhan_shh said:
In Chennai,there is no change in Airtel MO rates:

1)Rs20/day for unlimited browsing

2)Rs75/week for unlimited browsing

1) & 2) are applicable to all Airtel prepaid customers including 'Lifetime' prepaid,

3) Rs.375 special recharge with 0 talktime and unlimited GPRS with 30days validity: Applicable to all prepaid except 'Lifetime".

So,it is already expensive in Chennai ! hence there is no change!!

Hi,

I am in Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and having the 1 year validity prepaid. How i can enable Airtel Mobile office for my connection (can you please give me the list of steps, i couldn't find the same in their website. i want to try with their 7 days Rs.75/- package to test it).

regards
deva

T

Go for Tata indicom if you want better speed. On airtel I got average speed of 20-30kbps and maximum of 50kbps. On tata average is 60kbps and maximum speed touches 140kbps

D

Just send GPRS7 as an sms to 567.

rdevakumar said:
Hi,

I am in Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and having the 1 year validity prepaid. How i can enable Airtel Mobile office for my connection (can you please give me the list of steps, i couldn't find the same in their website. i want to try with their 7 days Rs.75/- package to test it).

regards
deva

@Pathiks->I also get XML parsing error on opera(pc).Why?
I use NOP.
U replied me earlier that NOP has probs with some phones,then why it doen't display properly on pc opera?

A

What Is Nop ???????

almighty said:
What Is Nop ???????

It is Net on phone.A wap service offered by Airtel at Rs.2/day.
U can browse wap sites via it.As always you can use opera mini or opera mobile to browse regular pc sites on NOP.
Hope this is clear.

N

Airtel---Disconnecting People..!

A

@CoolG5
yup cleared

but CAN we use it with PC... any idea????

nish_higher said:
Airtel---Disconnecting People..!

LOL
exact PUNCH Line
suggest airtel

^^^ yup cleared
but CAN we use it with PC... any idea????

Yes you can use NOP on pc.Here how to do it:

1. Create a dial up connection on PC n select nokia xxxx(phone model number) usb modem n set dial up no. as *99# n leave password n username blank

2. Go to control panel, click on phone n modem options, then select modem tab, then double click on nokia usb modem which we used in dialer above, now that will show modem properties, click on advanced tab n type AT+CGDCONT=,"IP","airtelwap.com" <cr> under extra initialization box, cliclk on ok.

3. Now open IE's internet options, select connections n then select dialer which we made in step 1 n then click on settings tab next to that n enter 100.1.200.99 in proxy n 8080 in port n select use proxy click on ok.

4. Now connect your phone to PC through data cable n then double click on above dialer n then click on dial n you would be connected to internet. Now open IE n start surfing ENJOY......

Airtel---Disconnecting People..!

LOL.

Very true.

yup we can..
@cool_g5 yea it does give taht error with pc opera... but u can just use
"reparse document as html"

pathiks said:
yup we can..
@cool_g5 yea it does give taht error with pc opera... but u can just use
"reparse document as html"

How to do that?
Plz educate me.

A

Cool G5 said:
Yes you can use NOP on pc.Here how to do it:

1. Create a dial up connection on PC n select nokia xxxx(phone model number) usb modem n set dial up no. as *99# n leave password n username blank

2. Go to control panel, click on phone n modem options, then select modem tab, then double click on nokia usb modem which we used in dialer above, now that will show modem properties, click on advanced tab n type AT+CGDCONT=,"IP","airtelwap.com" <cr> under extra initialization box, cliclk on ok.

3. Now open IE's internet options, select connections n then select dialer which we made in step 1 n then click on settings tab next to that n enter 100.1.200.99 in proxy n 8080 in port n select use proxy click on ok.

4. Now connect your phone to PC through data cable n then double click on above dialer n then click on dial n you would be connected to internet. Now open IE n start surfing ENJOY......

LOL.
Very true.

hey its APN trick yaar only changed mms to wap

and i think the proxy tooooooooo
thanks for share

M

pathik u typed this message via mobile internet???

u using it on pc or via mobile did it???

can we use firefox to surf NOP on PC?? and how the speed with this trick?

Nop speeds suck.. @Magnet m on mobile.. @cool_g5. In pc opera wen u get the xml parsing error, u ll get a link on the error page to parse it as html..

@techmasti just use the airtelwap init settings, enter proxies in browser and surf

S

in the nagpur we can use broadband @ rs10/Hr. at any internet center. but 15RS per day is not afoordable to anyone coz it gives ony 5-6-kbps.