Dear all, Some days ago, after an unofficial meeting at ILUG Cochin, one of its senior members Mr. Jay shared some info about an inexpensive way to access internet using EDGE/GPRS technology in mobile phones. There are many service providers who give GPRS (packat data) based internet. DOCOMO, one of the new gen mobile service provider provides a good internet plan based on EDGE/GPRS. Just read the following facts. This service is very useful especially for laptops.
1. DOCOMO's EDGE/GPRS plan is cheap. Rs. 48/- (prepaid!) for 2 GB download (There are other tariffs also ) 2. Almost all towers of DOCOMO is EDGE enabled. 3. If your mobile handset is EDGE compatible, you will get a not-bad speed. 4. Even your handset has only GPRS (with no EDGE), DOCOMO is comparatively good. 5. One of the best handset which has EDGE > Samsung C-5212 which costs Rs. 4.6 K. C-5212 supports dual SIM standby. 6. You can simply configure it using wvdial in Gnu/Linux systems. 7. The wvdial.conf file settings as follows [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 # If there is any troubles uncomment the following line #Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","TATA.DOCOMO.INTERNET" Modem Type = USB Modem Baud = 460800 # Sometimes the above speed may make trouble. Try a lower speed as follows #Baud = 57600 New PPPD = yes Modem = /dev/ttyACM0 ISDN = 0 # Phone = <Target Phone Number> # Password = <Your Password> # Username = <Your Login Name> # Phone = *99# for normal phones | *99***1# for Nokia phones # Password and Username can be any according to your interest Phone = *99***1# Password = internetz Username = internetz Note :- To configure your wvdial, use the following command: wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
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