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Airtel GPRS Mobile Office Tariffs and Activation Codes

If you look-up for Airtel’s GPRS and Mobile Office connections details on their website, I am sure you will go around in circles. The last resort is their paid support (Yes, Airtel now charges 50 paise per 3 minutes for contacting their customer support via phone). Having been through this, I am posting the following information that you could leverage if you were to avail Airtel’s GPRS services.

Listed below are Airtel’s g various packages, Download limits, tariffs and Activation/De-activation codes. Hope you find them useful.

 
Airtel-GPRS Pack Download Limit /month Tariff/month SMS Activation Code SMS De-Activation Code
Airtel GPRS 99 Pack 300MB 99 MO99actv Send it to 222 MO99CNCL 222 Send it to 222
Airtel GPRS 199 Pack 1 GB 199 MO99actv Send it to 222 MO199CNCL 222 Send it to 222
Airtel GPRS 299 Pack 2 GB 299 MO299actv Send it to 222 MO299CNCL 222 Send it to 222
Once you exceed your Download limit, the charges for additional data is charged @ 30 paise per 50KB
Airtel’s Unlimited Mobile Office Plan Rs 140/-per week MO Send it to 56122 MO CNCL Send it to 56122

It is advisable for you to please check with Airtel’s customer service before activating them.

~~~~ Update 25th October 2010 ~~~~

Airtel has officially announced a package of Rs 98 /– GPRS plan for postpaid customers wherein, the download data limit is 2 GB.

Mobile Operator codes in India for SMS

I thought this piece of info would be useful to you all, in-case you have not got hold of these till now:

Service Provider Code Service Area Code
Aircel, Dishnet Wireless D Andhra Pradesh A
Bharti Airtel A Assam S
BSNL B Bihar B
BPL Mobile/Loop Telecom L Delhi D
Datacom Solutions C Gujarat G
HFCL Infotel H Haryana H
Idea Cellular I Himachal Pradesh I
MTNL M Jammu & Kashmir J
Reliance Communications R Karnataka X
Reliance Telecom E Kerala L
S tel S Kolkata K
Shyam Telecom Y Madhya Pradesh Y
Spice Telecom P Maharashtra Z
Swan Telecom W Mumbai M
Tata Teleservices T North East N
Unitech Group U Orissa O
Vodafone Group V Punjab P
Rajasthan R
Tamil Nadu T
UP-East E
UP-West W
West Bengal V

So, combination of these two constitutes the first two digit of “Sender” followed by an hyphen (-) & actual sender name.