free gprs in sri lanka , why pay for mobile broad band when you can have it for free!!!

By Gayan Ranasinghe

This trick works with mobitel network in sri lanka.And i must say that this is not 100% perfect broadband.This procedure is a little annoying and not totally comfortable BUT its FREE gprs after all!

This trick may be useful for you mainly when using gprs on your phone.you can use this TRICK to download small files less than 800kb or so.(generally,mobitel charges 1cent per kb,so technically you get 8 rupees of gprs for FREE! per session)

Its really simple.Do you have a mobitel connection in your mobile?

theres one condition for our little trick to work

***you must have less than 1.50rs & more than 1.00rs credit to be able to perform this TRICK & basic knowledge of gprs usage***

now open your opera mini browser (if you don't have opera mini installed in your mobile,you can download for free @ www.operamini.com)and browse pages as usual.you will only be able to browse for about 30seconds and you will be able to download upto 800-900kb of data in that time(if you have 3g in your phone,depends on your device).then you have to disconnect your current connection using connection manager(in Nokia phones) or the relevant utility depending on the phone.then you can restart browsing.

Nokia N95

Opera Mini support

Based on testing performed by Opera Software, this device supports Opera Mini 4.

Install via mobile download

1. Point your phone's WAP browser to http://mini.opera.com/ and click on Download Opera Mini.
2. Answer 'Yes' to all installation messages and enjoy browsing the full Web, right on your mobile phone!

Problems connecting? Make sure your phone is correctly set up for Internet access.

Install via PC download

1. Select preferred language for Opera Mini:
   English (US)English (UK)English (International)English (India)AfrikaansArabicBelarusianBulgarianCatalanChineseChinese (Taiwanese)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFinnishFrenchFrench (Canadian)FrisianGeorgianGermanGreekHausaHebrewHindiHungarianIgboIndonesianIcelandicItalianJapaneseKoreanLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMalayNorwegian (Bokmål)Norwegian (Nynorsk)PolishPortuguesePortuguese (Brazilian)RomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSpanishSpanish (Latin American)SwedishTagalogThaiTurkishUkrainianVietnameseYoruba
2. Transfer these files to your phone, and install them according to your phone's installation procedure:
   opera-mini-advanced.jad
   opera-mini-advanced.jar

GPRS, WAP and MMS Settings for Mobitel

Jun 15th, 2009

by Gayan.

Yesterday I found out that Mobitel (Sri Lanka) don’t have their GPRS/MMS settings online like Dialog GSM. Even Google couldn’t find them for me! After a little bit of searching online, I finally gave in and called Mobitel’s customer support. After listening to a few songs and a recording that kept reminding that the call was valuable to them and will be attended to soon, I was finally able to get the settings from them. So to save you the pain here they are:

GPRS Settings:
Access Point: ISP

WAP Settings
- Data bearer: Packet data
- Access point name: isp
- Authentication: Normal
- Homepage: http://wap.mobitel.lk
- Network type : IPv4
- Phone ip address : Atomatic
- Proxy serv. address : 192.168.050.163
- Proxy port number : 0

MMS Settings
- Connection name – MobitelMMS
- Data bearer – Packet data
- Access point name – wapmms
- Authentication – Normal
- Homepage – http://192.168.50.165
- Network type : IPv4
- Phone ip address : Atomatic
- Name server : Atomatic
- Proxy serv. address : 192.168.050.163
- Proxy port number : 8080

Now that Mobitel is supporting 3.5G HSPA technology I’m sure they would add this information to their website soon.