BSNL 4G / 3G / 2G Configuration / Settings

In India, Smartphones are becoming very popular among public and mobile data usage increases exponentially at a rapid rate. BSNL offers the lowest Data ( 4G / 3G / 2G) Tariff in India with widest coverage and PAN India 3G service.

BSNL is increasing its 4G & 3G coverage area day by day and new mobile sites are being added to their network throughout the country. BSNL offers free data roaming all over India including Delhi & Mumbai.

The following video describes how to setup / configure an android smartphone to access 4G /3G / 2G data services of BSNL.

The configuration is very simple and easy. We may set the paramater – APN ( Access Point Name) as ‘bsnlnet’ and just save the configuration.

To access 4G / 3G data through Datacard / Netsetter / USB Dongle, just save the APN as ‘bsnlnet’ & dial number as ‘*99#’ in the Profile Management Option in the USB Dongle’s Settings.

Few things to note :

There is no additional configuration for 2G Data. Customers may use the same configuration for 4G, 3G and 2G.
We may use the same configuration while in all India Roaming in BSNL/MTNL network also.
To access BSNL 4G, you may need to change your existing SIM card with 4G enables BSNL SIM.
Just activate any of the available 3G/2G Prepaid Data Offers or annual data plans or Postpaid Data Offers on your SIM.

How to check the Prepaid data balance / data account expiry date ??

To check balance data in your prepaid account, just dial *124*2#. Datacard / Netsetter customers may use the USSD option in the datacard menu & dial *124*2# to get the data balace expiry / balance.
To get the data balance through SMS from the same SIM, just send STVENQ to 123.

How to check the data usage in BSNL Postpaid ??

To check data usage in postpaid, just send an sms AMT to 5333

Manual Data / MMS Configuration in Mobile Handsets

Settings Type	4G / 3G / 2G Data	MMS
Connection Name	bsnlnet	bsnlmms
Data Bearer	GPRS	GPRS
Access Point Name (APN)	bsnlnet	bsnlmms
Usename
Prompt Password	No	No
Password
Authentication	Normal	Normal
Homepage	http://www.google.com	http://www.bsnlmmsc.in:8514
Phone IP Address	Automatic	Automatic
Name Server	Automatic	Automatic
Proxy Server Address	Off	10.210.10.11
Proxy Port Number		8080