Enabling GPRS ( BSNL ) on a Nokia 3500

Took me 3 months (plus) to figure out how to enabling the GPRS on my phone.

Compliments to my perseverance apart, I thought it may help a few other folks who have similar issues.

The two sites which helped me figure things out are :

Writings of a Kerala Geek
and
Hartti Suomela’s Forum Nokia Blog

Now that due credit has been given, I herewith add a brief summary of how to get BSNL GPRS to work.

• Enable GPRS : Send a SMS to 53733 with the text GPRS49 (for limited data throughput) or GPRS199 (for unlimited data throughput).
• Get Settings : Send a SMS to 8355 with the text Nokia 6500 (yup, 6500 – BSNL does not know about the 3500, or so it would seem). You will get a stream of ’setting’ SMS’s. Save these to the phone.
• Getting it working : Go to Menu->Settings->Config Settings. Default configuration settings should be set to : bsnl_internet. Select “Activate Default in all Applications”, as well.
  From here you should be browse the internet.
• Enable packet data : Menu->Settings->Connectivity->Packet data. Packet Data Connection should be set to ‘Always Online’. You can change it later to ‘As Required’ once things are working smoothly, and you need some entertainment.
  “Active Access Point” should be set to BSNL_GPRS . The actual packet data access point is “http://gprssouth.cellone.in”.

Thats it : You should be able to browse the net and use packet-data applications.

BTW, do remember to restart your phone, after making these changes. Sometimes this is the key step to getting things working :)
Hope this helps.

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