BSNL Makes GPRS Settings User Friendly For 2G And 3G SubscribersIn a bid to provide grater satisfaction with seamless connectivity to the GPRS and 3G Data customers, India’s National Telecom Backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has now made easy and simple 2G GPRS – EDGE / 3G Settings for all handsets.

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With the new Settings customers can easily configure their handsets for HTTP browsing, WAP browsing, downloading or streaming video/audio content and also for sending and receiving MMS.

For each of these services an APN (Access Point Name) has to be setup in the customer Handset.To Configure the Mobile Phone for BSNL GPRS/EDGE/3G/MMS services the following APNs are now being used

Sl. No.APNUse
1bsnlnetThis is used for http browsing. It is used for internet browsing with DataCard/Handset  from  PC/LAPTOP.  The  handsets  having  the  http  browsing support can also use this APN to browse.
2bsnlliveThis  is  basically  for  WAP  browsing.  It  is  used  for  internet  browsing  orcontent download from handset.
3bsnlstreamThis is used to watch all streaming content services like Mobile TV, VideoClips/Audio Clips in BSNL Live and Hello TV.
4bsnlmmsThis is used for sending and receiving MMS.

The customer can setup all the APNs or a selected one depending upon the requirement.The different way of getting the APN settings are described below:

Settings over SMS: Customers may send SMS XXX to 58355 to get the GPRS/3G settings.
XXX stands for individual keyword for corresponding settings.

XXXAPN
BSNLbsnlnet, bsnllive, bsnlstream, bsnlmms
LIVEbsnllive
TVbsnlstream
NETbsnlnet
MMSbsnlmms

Selected settings corresponding to the handset will be pushed to the handset. Customer has to save the settings in the handset. “bsnllive” should preferably be made default setting in the handset.