Now regarding Airtel
Live service:
Airtel Live is free GPRS service that
Airtel provides to its
customer with a catch
i.e. as per Airtel, you can only access
http://live.airtelworld.comfor
downloading latest
ringtones, games,
wallpapers, videos etc.
If you call Airtel Customer
Support to
get Live on your HTC
Touch, they tell you
that it is not supported
on any Windows Mobile
phone and suggest you to go for Airtel Mobile
office, full GPRS service
for a monthly rental of
Rs. 499 (USD 12).
After googling and
fighting with Airtel, I managed to get the
correct settings and I
am able to run Airtel
Live as well access most
of the websites on
standard HTTP protocol (SSL is not supported).
Google Maps also works
for me. On Windows Mobile 6.x,
the steps to configure
are as follows:
1. Activate Airtel Live
by sending the
following SMS to 121:
MASALA ACTIVE.
2. The service takes
atleast 3-4 hours to get active. Restart the
phone and resume
configuring.
3. Tap Start -> Settings.
4. Select Connections
Tab and tap Connections.
5. Select Advanced Tab,
tap Select Networks
button to bring up
Network Management.
6. Under "Programs that automatically connect
to the Internet should
connect using:" drop
down, tap the New
button.
7. In the General Tab, type the name of the
settings as Airtel Live
8. Select Modem tab, tap
New...
9. Type the name of
connection as Airtel Live, select the modem
as Cellular Line (GPRS)
and tap Next.
10. Type Access Point
Name as
airtelfun.comand tap next. 11. Leave username,
password and domain
blank and tap finish.
12. Select Proxy
Settings tab. Tap "This
network connects to the Internet". This
should enable the next
check box option.
13. Tap "This network
uses a proxy server to
connect to the Internet".
14. Type the proxy
server as: 100.1.200.99
and then tap
Advanced...
15. Tap HTTP, leave the server as 100.1.200.99
and change the port to
8080
16. Similarly tap WAP,
Secure WAP and Socks,
type the server as 100.1.200.99 but leave
the port to defaults.
These are optional
settings.
17. Tap OK to close the
Advanced proxy setup screen.
18. Tap OK to close the
New connection screen.
19. The network
management screen
should now list the new connection you have
created in the drop-
down. Tap OK to close
this screen
20. Tap OK to close the
connection screen. Now you are ready to
fire your favourite
browser.
I have tested
this on PIE as well as
Opera 9.5 and it works
for me. If PIE reports "Request
not authorized by the
WAP Gateway", you will
need to change the
user-agent to anything
you can think of using "Advanced Config" tool
(thanks to dsixda for
suggesting this). I had
set it to
HTCP3452_Mozilla/4.0
under Advanced Config -> Internet Explorer ->
User Agent Custom
Base.
I think Airtel has
intentionally blocked
Mozilla/4.0 user-agent on WM phones. It may
be that they cannot
restrict Windows Mobile
based phones from
accessing websites on
standard HTTP. On other phones I had
tried, I could not get
other sites to work
with the same settings.
Enjoy Airtel Live for
free.
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