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BSNL 3G Data Recharge Vouchers

on April 12, 2010 – 4:30 am32 Comments

BSNL 3G is a actually a great service apart from the poor customer support. I barely use my Airtel Mobile Office GPRS connection after I got my BSNL 3G connection. I still have it because , Airtel’s network coverage is pretty good. But GPRS/EDGE is slow so I prefer using 3G. I get an average speed of  800Kbps to 1 Mbps.  Now after my free usage got over, I was paying Rs.1 per MB approx from my prepaid account balance which is expensive. BSNL 3G has 3G Data plans which are actually pretty reasonably priced. There are plans ranging from Rs.249 (500 MB Free usage ) to Rs.2499 (unlimited). A lot of users have been asking about how to recharge the 3G SIM cards with more usage.

BSNL 3G Prepaid Data Plans

So here are the various plans available. The best value for money plan is the 549 plan with comes with 1 GB of free day time usage and 5GB of night time usage. The night time is from 11pm to 7 am. And if you are roaming from your 3G area to another area which has BSNL 3G , you can still use the Free 3G usage.

The above plan charges don’t include the service tax of 10.3% so the actual cost is indicated for your reference below.

The charges for the unlimited plan have been reduced recently but it’s still expensive.

So Where can you get BSNL 3G Data Recharge Vouchers ?

The simple answer is you can’t get them anywhere like other prepaid recharge cards. You need to go to a BSNL Telephone Exchange or BSNL Mobile Showroom and ask for this recharge. You will need to fill a slip with your mobile number and the desired amount for recharge. Once you have paid the amount, your number will get the free usage corresponding to the plan within 10-15 mins and you will be notified by an SMS.

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  • johnpaul

    I took a bsnl 3g connection 3 days ago.i recharged for 606 through my friend who is working in BSNL. The speed is good as i consistently get average speed of 200 KB/s-250 KB/s( 1600 kbps to 2000 kbps).And please note that the recharge is only available through c-top up only. That means cool top up.

    • Madhu

      hi john,
      1. is the cool top applicable to data recharge as well as data topup?
      2. is it available from the bsnl shoppe outlets?

      there is an option online to charge, but it gives ‘not eligible for 3g recharge’ as error :(

      • johnpaul

        I didnt understand ur first question..
        No cool top up is not available through every bsnl outlets. I enquired at many shops near me, say 20 or 30, But no use. Finally i did the topup through my friend who is working in BSNL.

        • Madhu

          is the cool topup applicable to data rcv(to get free data + increase validity) OR only to data topups (to only get free data)

          the reason being my account is valid for 6 months due to that first recharge of rs. 120
          so now can only do a data topup of say ..325 rs for 1 GB?

    • parag

      plz tell me where should i get 3g card

  • Vimal Thakur

    This plan is good but it is too costly for low level persons,,.,

  • Madhu

    Hi,
    can we opt for a 3g data plan and use the SIM on a 3g enabled phone instead of the data card provided by bsnl? And use it to connect my laptop through USB?

    madhu

    • johnpaul

      Yes u can. I have a two bsnl 3g sims and sometimes i swap them with data card and my 5800. But its not practical as u will not get good speeds and ur battery will drain very fast. I also tried to connect my phone with laptop but the result was not good.

      • Madhu

        thanks for the reply.
        1. what if the phone supports HSDPA (3.6 or 7.2 mbps). thats what the data card does. even if a phone supports 384 kbps..still ok :)
        2. the phone will anyway be on USB charging while connected.

        • johnpaul

          Yes u can use ur phone to connect to internet. But for some reason i didnt get more than 1 mbps. I think its the processor or something….And my phone doesnt charge while connected on usb mode.

  • mahesh

    sir i want to know fully knowladge about bsnl 3g sim in rajasthan

  • Md. Shamshad Hussain

    Sir,
    I am using bsnl 3g sim on lap top. It came with 6 months validity. After using approximately 120 mb my free usage ends.
    After that I did top up of Rs.325 (for 1gb data usage only). So I want to know two things.
    1) How to check the balance data usage ( on computer as well as
    on phone).
    2) What will be the validity of data usage which i did top up of
    Rs.325.
    Waiting for your reasonable reply. Thanks.

    • Kaushik

      even i have this query… if anyone can resolve this, it will be great.

  • ayush

    is there the facility of i paisa per second in bsnl 3g

  • dileep soni

    sir
    i am using bsnl 3g sim and my validity time gone.i want to know about validity recharge.

  • Gaurav

    hey john, i might need a a little piece of advice..

    if the BSNL customer service does not know what they have with them to sell, nor do they let anyone sell there data recharge coupons, then how the hell in this world will anyone be able to recharge- especially someone like me, i seriously have no one working at BSNL. if anyone knows anything about getting a 5Gb or a 10 GB data recharge voucher in jalandhar please advice, i am in urgent need of help.

    regards everyone

  • Chotu jain

    Madhu meri bsnl 3g wali sim kho gayi

  • http://www.gmail.com anthony

    sir,
    i have data recharged yesterday of Rs 2499 through online recharge.but till now 3g data service is not activated on my mobile my mobile number 9483643546.so please do the needfull.
    regards
    anthony rodrigues

    • Nik

      Wow. Anthony rodrigues actually thinks you guys are bsnl agents, and hence asking u to do the needful. Amazing.

  • http://www.prasanthblog.com Prasanth

    i contacted bsnl customer care today asking about 3g recharge for my sim, and customer care person said that their website is having some problems. And asked me not to recharge today. And also said that if i did a recharge today it will only come to phone tomorrow or so. I don’t know how good this information is.

    but i am hoping that what happened in your case.

    One more thing don’t post your mobile number in comments not a good idea. some one could miss use it.

  • Ramprabhu

    Today I recharged for 1gb via online Bsnl portal. But still not credicted to my mobile account.
    Stupid BSNL people they can’t even understand my issue, how then they resolve it.
    Hmmmm… Waiting fir private operator to start service.
    They may be costly but reliable.

    • http://www.fonearena.com Varun Krish

      You will get the amount refunded to your account in some days or else approach a BSNL office

  • DELLstreak

    BSNL does suck, I have terrible experience with their network.but its mostly their awful service and their duffer engineers that makes me hate them .Hey folks I’m sorry to say that you guys are stuck on Rs1/MB prepaid cause you never ever able to buy those complex 3G Data and voice tariff plan from BSNL. Those who are working in BSNL are in fact agents of other would be private 3G service providers. you see most of us are allready prepared to join private 3G network providers once they hit the market. Unfortunately The GM of my city;s BSNL office is a person who took 10 years to finish his BE graduation and most of their JTO are from the era of DOS and Windows95. Believe me they are still using PC running on windows 95 & 98. what do you expect from them rather they are expecting that we do not disturbed them. So guys wait for couple of weeks and you will see the shining Airtel, Vodaphone ,Tata and Idea 3G.

    • Avnish

      These BSNL GUYS suk. I bought an Ipad Micro sim. Now I went to ask them how to recharg this they say we dont know. This was a horrible experieance. When I asked the customer care they said me I dont know and go away from here.

      The government wasted it’s spectrum by giving it to BSNL. If they would have given it to any privet operator they might have given good value to customer.

  • parag

    frm where should i get 3g sim???
    and its price??

  • Ramakant

    Hi,, today i want recharge 3g data card prepaid account

  • Mohan

    How to recharge 3G data card online?

    • Samiappanp

      how to recharge 3g data card online

  • http://prasanthblog.com Prasanth Kavil

    Go to http://portal.bsnl.in/ and register and then from there you can recharge or top up your mobile & data cards. You can even pay your bsnl landline bill from here.

  • civil rockstar

    3G PREPAID PLAN IS VERY COSTLY….

  • civil rockstar

    3G PREPAID PLAN IS VERY COSTLY….

  • Tiwarivishal31

    bsnl are very expensive . most people want to adopt bsnl 3g but the plans are very expensive this is the real problem of most of the people . please reduce the prices of plans of internet data card plans