Thread: Apple iPhone on BSNL

Airtel is authorized to unlock Apple iPhones in India?

we have covered this in the past.

apple site states that airtel is authorized to unlock iphones.

but would they?

i doubt they would.

they have no reasons to offer unlocking codes to people in india.

there is no law or regulation forcing them to do so.

but who is stopping them from NOT doing that?

there is NO regulation by TRAI on locked phones for indian customers.

in fact there is a regulation in the USA and mobile companies i believe are supposed to provide unlock codes after the contract is over. at&t i think still does not provide any unlock code to the owners of first generation iphones.

here in india, why would airtel do such a thing when trai does not even care about locked phones in the country.

iphone is in fact not the first phone to be sold locked in india. vodafone magic box is locked i believe. so are most HTC phones sold by Airtel or Vodafone. or Blackberry devices sold by reliance/tata/airtel/vodafone.

i dont see airtel taking an initiative. no one is forcing them to.

Since this post is about BSNL and iPhones. I want to ask a question. Is anybody using BSNL 3G with their iPhones? Did you have any problems configuring 3G on the iPhone? I am a little concerned since BSNL doesnot have the greatest CC in the World
Also what plan do you think is good enough, if you are only going to use the 3G connection for simple Navigation applications and maybe checking emails (basic text with out multimedia content). and maybe a messenger serivce like yahoo.
I was thinking about getting 3G base plan which is 250Rs for 300Mb. Do you guys this this would be enough?

Here are the 3G plans.
:: BSNL 3G ::

Please Advice.
Thanks!

apple iphone is more about the software powering it than the hardware components.

hardware is easy to replicate. but not the software.

Someone PLEASE help me out here!

I have also been trying to call BSNL local CC but no one is picking up the phone

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Originally Posted by alig

Someone PLEASE help me out here!

I have also been trying to call BSNL local CC but no one is picking up the phone

I am Sad now

Ok apparently I must have had the wrong number which I got from MTNL website. I called this other number which I saw in one of the posts here, which connected me to Kolkata, I was very happy to talk to this guy who's English was good, also he gave me a number for haryana.
I called CC here, choose the english language - Got connected to a Haryanavi Babu. lol
Anyway with much effort He confirmed that He had information that Iphone 3G is supported, (Obviously , its "3G")
Anywho this is for anyone else who needs similar information, If anyone can still help me out with the information I require about the plan being suitable for me, it will be appreciated.