chetangole.com/blog/ » SMS

Airtel hoax: The 43rs recharge scheme. Whats that ?

Chetan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:45:31 +0000

On 9 June 2009, many Airtel users got SMS from friends about the 43rs recharge scheme. According to the SMS, Just recharge your Airtel with 43 rupee and you will get lifelong validity + Airtel to Airtel calling @ 10Ps/Min. I was shocked when i received this SMS but i ignored it.

But later, one of my friend SMSed me that he did the recharge and now all his Airtel to Airtel calls are charged with 10Ps/Min and the validity is also increased to 2012. So i decided to take the chance. Last year, Airtel stopped selling Airtel friends cards so it was bit risky to take a chance because no other service provider provides such scheme.

Airtel friends cards provides this scheme

In Happy Hours :
Airtel to Airtel : 10Ps
Airtel to other : 1 Rs

In Normal Hours:
All mobile calls : 1 rs
Landline calls : 2.5 rs

Happy Hours : 10PM – 8AM & 3PM to 5PM
Group calling 10Ps anytime, Group can have MAX 5 numbers at a time (all 5 must have Airtel friends SIM).

So it was bit risky to loose this plan, but still i decided to do the recharge. and after doing recharge, validity increased to 4th March 2012 and at that time all A2A calls were 10Ps/Min.I also got 39 rupee talktime on that recharge. But on next day every this was usual as friends scheme but validity was 2012 !! Many friends told me that there friends group was broken after doing this recharge, but now groups are also forming (This system was down from many days, and now its working !).

There was no confirmatory information about this plan from any official Airtel executives and even now if we call Airtel customer care center (121) they give different different explanation. Even Airtel official gallery stores dont have any information about such plan.

These recharges were working only on Airtel friends cards, no other cards were getting such benefits from this. I suspect there must be some problem in there system on that day. But dont know what was that.

Such exceptional cases always happen with Airtel, from Free Internet GPRS hacks to Free SMS hacks, all works only on Airtel. !!

Get SMS update for new E-Mail [Gmail]

Chetan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:40:41 +0000

Recently Google labs launched SMS Channel in India. i have created many SMS channel including one for this blog. so i just thought we can use this service for any type of SMS updates using RSS feeds.
Recently i have seen that we can directly get the RSS feeds of GMAIL inbox. so we can use this RSS feeds to get these SMS updates. So if you want your own Gmail inbox SMS channel just put your GMAIL RSS link in SMS channel feed section.
Gmail RSS link will be like this :

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

But using this link in SMS channel will expose your Password and ID to whole world, so you can use Feedburner service to hide it [Highly recommended] and create your own RSS feed like this

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheChetan

Just put this RSS link into your SMS channel rss feeds and get SMS alert for Emails. Remember to select “By invitation only” in “Who can subscribe” option else anyone can subscribe to your sms updates and anyone is subscribed can get those SMS for each e-mail.
Currently this service is available only in India as Google SMS channel is only for india. Many indian carriers supports Google SMS channel like Airtel, Vodafone, Idea etc. so you can enjoy this service of SMS update.
But the only drawback is that if anyone got the link to your Gmail rss feeds he/she can read your e-mails directly !!

Google launched the SMS Channels in India.

Chetan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:42:41 +0000

Google India, recently launched a new service called Google labs SMS channels, this service is launched in India exclusively !!! its currently not available for international users. The Google SMS channel is same as subscription of updates through e-mails. As we know that now a days all people are using mobile handsets, even school going children have mobile handsets. So Google planned this and launched this amazing service.

You just need to subscribe to any SMS Channel in there directory according to your choice and you will get updates directly to your inbox [Free of cost].You can get updates like “Google Tech news“,”Weather reports“, etc. Even you can create your own Channel or group to send SMSs to your group member. For bloggers this is good service to stay connected with there users, because it supports the RSS Feeds too. !!

Google SMS Channel currently supporting india’s almost all mobile service providers for sending the SMSs. Hope so this service will gain popularity soon.

Me too created my blogs SMS Channel, If you want such updates directly to your mobile inbox just do subscribe to TheChetan.com SMS Channel.

Yet another offer from Airtel Send FREE SMS.

Chetan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:18:17 +0000

Announcing yet another Free SMS Offer by Airtel. Just send one sms , 15 to 250 (Toll Free number)You will get Free SMS Balance of 150 SMSs and 10 Min of Music on demand service (Where you can listen to songs) and 1 Month voice chat service. You can also enjoy the Free internet trick for Airtel.

Actually this offer is launched by Airtel on occasion of Independence day of India (15Th August), so Enjoy the Free SMS. Its just Airtel who launched such offer on Independence day, others like Idea, Vodafone and enjoying money.

To avail this offer just send (number) 15 to 250 (Toll Free).After sending SMS you will get SMS like this
Write new SMS >> 15 >> send it to 250.

Your request has been registered. 150 local SMS,10min MoD and 1 month VoiceChat will be activated on your number in 24hours.

so just wait and watch.
NOTE: This offer is ENDED so This trick is NOT WORKING now.
Thanks .

Airtel servers are down !! Enjoy free calling and SMS.

Chetan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:18:51 +0000

Yesterday, i was just playing with computer, received SMS from one of my friend who never send me SMS before (he was bit money saver). I was in shock that he sent me SMS !! . but soon i came to know that Airtel Servers are down. and money is not deducted from Balance. (Even it was not showing the balance)
Airtel , one of the biggest GSM service provider in India was down that day. Actually whole airtel was not down but there money server was down. All calls and SMSs were free (They are still free while writing this blogpost). Many guys enjoyed Free calls, Free SMS that day. (and still enjoying). Even the SIM Cards with Zero balance were also able to make calls (Free calls).Last time about 3 months ago Airtel Servers were down and same thing was happened (No deduction of balance).
I received a SMS from Airtel last night it was like this

Priya Grahak, techinical Kharabi ke karan aapke Mobile screen par Balance dikh nahi raha hai. Kuch hi der me aapko baaki sahi balance dikhne lagega.

Its in HINDI Language (India).

So i think Airtel will charge all money after they get the problem solved, (but i dont want it).
Many guys misused this opportunity (even me too) by making long STD calls and thousand SMS were sent at that day (by one person).

This problem may be related to Fire at Peninsula Chambers, Lower Parel, Mumbai, which causes the power failure at Airtel center. but dont know the perfect reason for this. And i think only Maharashtra was affected due to this .

I got a trick to use free Internet on Airtel Mobile, read it and enjoy the Free Internet.
Airtel be carefull, or it may be harmfull for its next quarter profit logs.