Good news for Airtel customers and arduous fans of Facebook. Now you can access Facebook from your Airtel mobile without any Data charges till August 31, 2010 as a part of agreement made between the two managements.
The site will initially be available in English and Hindi languages till July 15 and from then, you may also be able to access Facebook in other regional languages like Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and Malayalam.
Airtel users who already have GPRS or Mobile Internet through ‘Mobile Office’ active in their handsets can directly visit facebook.com and access the Social Networking site without any extra charges, till August 31. Users who want to use GPRS for the first time would need to send an SMS as facebook to 54321 (toll free) to receive the GPRS settings. You would then want to save those settings as default GPRS settings. ‘This would be useful to the vast network of 130 million subscribers’, Airtel said.
This is not the first time that Facebook is being allowed to surf for free. Reliance and Videocon has already done that by making use of ‘facebook zero’. To get free access to facebook without any data charges, users of Videocon and Reliance network can go to 0.facebook.com.
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Good and easy!
Pls send airtel free facebook settings to my mobile pls pls……
I have made three complains with Airtel Customer Care Please my mobile 9005112641 information
Please send me “zero.facebook.com” service message that i can access fb without any cost.
Hai dis is krish. I wanna know about idea data plans.
the 0.facebook.com is not workin on my reliance gsm network what should i do?
it shows that If you are contacting your mobile carrier, mention that your IP address
is not supported.
pls can i kno how to access free facebook?whether it is through mobile office or default settings.i have been using 0.facebook.c0m through default.but i was charged.an the same way i used m.facebook.com through mobile office ten too i was charged………pls help ….i am completely muddled up……….
I have made three complains with Airtel Customer Care vide ref. no.0727048906 dated 27.07.2010, 0729031286 dated 29.07.2010 & 0728153249 dated 28.07.2010 regarding high charges under special 5 and they have confirmed that they will give me the feedback by 10.00 a.m. of 30.07.2010 but till writing of this, I have not received any information from them.
Please let us know whom to write and give us the address and phone no. to enable me to write to them.
Regards
A. K. SArkar
i like this
Thanks for information, when i trying to open “m.facebook.com” it is open but the text was not displayed only some boxes are there.
I have airtel postpaid connection.Can i also access for free? Is this only for prepaid or postpaid too? Please clarify
Thanks to Airtel. I was trying to go to 0.facebook.com from my Airtel mobile but I always get an error that 0.facebook.com is only supported by some mobile carriers.
Now i can access it for free like my friends.