In India, Smartphones are becoming very popular among public and mobile data usage increases exponentially at a rapid rate. BSNL offers the lowest Data ( 4G / 3G / 2G) Tariff in India with widest coverage and PAN India 3G service. 
BSNL is increasing its 4G & 3G coverage area day by day and new mobile sites are being added to their network throughout the country. BSNL offers free data roaming all over India including Delhi & Mumbai.
The following video describes how to setup / configure an android smartphone to access 4G /3G / 2G data services of BSNL.
The configuration is very simple and easy. We may set the paramater – APN ( Access Point Name) as ‘bsnlnet’ and just save the configuration.
To access 4G / 3G data through Datacard / Netsetter / USB Dongle, just save the APN as ‘bsnlnet’ & dial number as ‘*99#’ in the Profile Management Option in the USB Dongle’s Settings.
Few things to note :
- There is no additional configuration for 2G Data. Customers may use the same configuration for 4G, 3G and 2G.
- We may use the same configuration while in all India Roaming in BSNL/MTNL network also.
- To access BSNL 4G, you may need to change your existing SIM card with 4G enables BSNL SIM.
- Just activate any of the available 3G/2G Prepaid Data Offers or annual data plans or Postpaid Data Offers on your SIM.
How to check the Prepaid data balance / data account expiry date ??
- To check balance data in your prepaid account, just dial *124*2#. Datacard / Netsetter customers may use the USSD option in the datacard menu & dial *124*2# to get the data balace expiry / balance.
- To get the data balance through SMS from the same SIM, just send STVENQ to 123.
How to check the data usage in BSNL Postpaid ??
- To check data usage in postpaid, just send an sms AMT to 5333
Manual Data / MMS Configuration in Mobile Handsets
| Settings Type | 4G / 3G / 2G Data | MMS |
| Connection Name | bsnlnet | bsnlmms |
| Data Bearer | GPRS | GPRS |
| Access Point Name (APN) | bsnlnet | bsnlmms |
| Usename | ||
| Prompt Password | No | No |
| Password | ||
| Authentication | Normal | Normal |
| Homepage | http://www.google.com | http://www.bsnlmmsc.in:8514 |
| Phone IP Address | Automatic | Automatic |
| Name Server | Automatic | Automatic |
| Proxy Server Address | Off | 10.210.10.11 |
| Proxy Port Number | 8080 |
