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To: Bharti Celllular Ltd.
E: 121@airtelindia.com
Sent on:1 June 2007
Subject: Self-charge for Prepaid plans Suggestion
Action Taken: None yet

Greetings,
Being brief and concise:
It is suggested to introduce a self-charge scheme for Prepaid numbers, wherein a user with enough account balance but zero validity may get their phone/validity re-charged by sending a special sms to 121. The amount deducted maybe from his/her account and the number be “recharged”.

Rationale: There maybe many users whose validity expires but they have enough balance. But because they can’t get to the closest airtel vendor, they have to remain “cut” from their loved ones or just for being lazy, don’t goto a vendor, or maybe run out of cash (but have enough prepaid balance). It won’t make any difference to Airtel, as they’re getting their amount. So a win-win situation.

Hoping to hear something positive soon.

Warm regards,
Inderjeet S Sodhi

Opera is not a new name. Nor is it like Infosys or others who’re a part of India’s daily life. The Oslo, Norway based company has only 4 offices/development centres around the world in USA, Taiwan, Sweden and Japan.

Now they have Chosen Chandigarh (my Chandigarh!) as the next QA centre in Asia.

Take a look at :
http://opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/02/20/

For QA jobs at Opera, Chandigarh:
http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/web_opener.dml

I’d been using GPRS on Airtel Punjab for some time and suddenly lost the settings for some reason (this habit of fiddling and experimenting is bad sometimes).

So I tried calling up the customer care and for a change there was no response this time, several times. Of late, they’ve stopped attending personal calls and a message plays something like “please send sms to 121 with your query. It Seems the Bharti group wants to save some money by chopping off 24×7 customer care to a 9-5 one.

I had forgotten the code to get the settings delivered via SMS.

Googling around yielded no results. Airtel does not have an FAQ page with these details on their site!

Anyway I fiddled again (sorry i take my words back, it is mostly good to fiddle and experiment) and discovered the settings. Posting using the same connection. Here are these if someone is interested:

Connection Name(can be any): Mobileoffice
APN: airtelgprs.com
Username: 91xxxxxxxx (your mobile number)
password: (leave blank)

WAP Profile:
Name: call this profile by any name, but call it Mobileoffice
Connect using: mobileoffice (or whatever name you gave above)
IP Address: 000.000.000.000

And this should work.
To connect to Internet use the dialup number: *99**#2 last number (2 here) being mobile manufacturer ID (experiment, again!) I use 2 for Sony Ericsson.

Hope that helps

Happy GPRSing!

Sidenote: The GPRS service can be activated on Prepaid connections by sending a message PGPRS to 700 (costs 3 bucks) and it will be activated within 48 hours. Charges are 375 Rupees a month (pathetic speed). You must have at least 25 rupees extra in your account while activating.

The charges are deducted on pro-rata basis, from 5th to 5th of every month. If you activate on 20th, they’d deduct about half the amount.

Hi, Well after a long gap i’m back to blogging. Herein I’d be putting down whatever is there in m mind. For, i believe knowledge is for sharing. If i acquire a lot of knowledge and die with it, what’d the use of such knowledge? So here is some part of my heart and brain - collectively known as the mind…Hope you enjoy reading the stuff.

Inderjeet