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BSNL Apple iPhone 3G Speed Test

on January 11, 2010 – 8:54 pm17 Comments

Till now , we have used the iPhone 3G for making calls , listening to music , checking email,playing games, watching videos over a wi-fi hotspot . But now we had the chance to test the real big feature of the iPhone 3G – The inclusion of  Third Generation Technology which gives you broadband like speeds on the road.Since the unit we tested was an unlocked and jailbroken one, we had little trouble to get the BSNL SIM Card recognized. Then we had to goto Settings->General->Network and set Enable 3G to ON

Then we set the Access Point or APN under the Cellular Data Network as gprssouth.cellone.in

The phone was still connecting only over EDGE and failed to show the 3G indicator.

We restarted the phone and were blessed with 3G speeds as you can see in the screenshot above.

But the Battery is draining faster now thanks to the increased power consumption.

We get a 3G signal indoors pretty easily with Nokia and Samsung phones. But we could manage to get a 3G signal on the iPhone only outdoors.

Anyone using BSNL 3G on their iPhone ? Do you have any issue getting it to work ? Let us know

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A team of mobile geeks

  • Zafar

    How can i get a BSNL sim card recognised ? I t dsnt work for me too…cant make calls from it..

  • http://www.iamsamrat.com Samrat

    I got around 2MBps.

    @Zafar. First you need to jailbreak it. (Post about it comming soon)

    • sreeram murthy

      I have apple iphone model A1203.

      model MA501LL

      version 3.1.2 (7D11)

      carrier 5.0

      modem firmware 04.05.04_G

      It is working with BSNL 3G card and I am receiving and making calls on iphone normally.

      I am not in a position to make use of the wap facility.

      APN i used is wapsouth.cellone.in
      user name is ppp
      password is ppp123

      I live in Hyderabad AP

      can somebody guide me how to do that ?

      thanks all

      sreeram murthy

      • http://www.iamsamrat.com Samrat

        Just use;

        APN: bsnlnet
        and leave other feilds blank.

        • sreeram murthy

          Excellent

          it is now working flawless and smooth.

          Thanks a lot for this

          regards
          sreeram murthy

      • Pankaj

        I have apple iphone 3gs modelI am not in a position to make use of the wap facility.
        APN i used is:bsnlnet
        and leave other feilds blank
        plez help me out 

  • Saami Matloob

    Your Speed test shows speed around 1Mbps not even close to 2MBps :S

  • nachikethas

    Is it on iphone 3GS ??
    I am planing to ger a iphone 3GS when my Bro comes frm US,just want to know how did you confi. it with BSNL 3G …

    • http:look-pavi.blogspot.com pavi

      @Nikhil : BSNL is a bit crazy for money . You need a minimum balance of 50 for 3G . The stupid thing is they take 120 for introductory topup and give us only 20 :(

      I had to take a voucher of 55 while taking 3G sim .

  • dp

    How do I get to use the mobitv service? 3g is activated and running on my iPhone 3G. Thanks.

  • Nikhil

    Hi, I have an Apple Iphone 3G, running on 3.1.2
    I got a new BSNL 3G sim today in hyderabad and activated it with 120 voucher. whenever I try to connect to any site or anything online using 3G, I get a low balance RS.20 message. As per their plan, I should be having 25 MB free usage right ? is there any setting in the Iphon ethat I am missing, does it really require another recharge, it’s kind of confusing, the number of recharges and top-ups are too many. ! Thanks in advance.

    • http://www.iamsamrat.com Samrat

      For using 3G you need to have minimum Rs 50 balance.

  • http://facebook.com/saami Saami Matloob

    That is just so absurd to have min 50 bal i hope that changes when other players join in , and i hope the tariff come down too

  • Vtmr

    I have a 3gs . Does anyone know how to acticvate mobile tv.

  • Kiran AK

    I’m confused ! the article says…

    ”then we set the Access Point or APN under the Cellular Data Network as gprssouth.cellone.in”

    But Mr Samrat says ”APN: bsnlnet”, which one is correct. I’m planning to use iphone 3GS with the latest operating system ios4. I’m planning to use it in Kerala mostly

    Cheers,

    Kiran AK

  • Deeku

    Hi ,

    I hv iphone 3gs with 3.1.3 firmware with jailbroken & unlocked . I got BSNL 3G sim and tried with APN as gprssouth.cellone.in and bsnlnet both are pointing as E ( edge only) with 120kbps . I rebooted and tried several time still no use .. If anyone faced same problem and corrected the issue the Please share the info your efforts are I really appreciated

  • Jaccob

    The gprssouth option for APN is antique. BSNL has changed the APN several times without intimating its cutomers about the same. APN for connecting your cell phones, and using it as a modem, to your laptop/PC via cable/Bluetooth has changed to ‘bsnlnet’. For wap services on your phone the APN is ‘bsnllive’. Kindly ring up the BSNL cuatomer care for getting the advanced settings for each of the APNs.