Hutch by Vodafone and Bharti Airtel have launched Blackberry Smart Phones in India thought the latest version – Blackberry 8830 Curve isn’t around yet.
What you get is BlackBerry 7100g, BlackBerry 8700g, BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry Curve – all the blackberry models in India can be purchased online from either Rediff or Indiatimes shopping.
Hutch charges Rs 499 for 500 KB data download and Rs 1099 per month for Unlimited Data transfer.
Airtel has the same data tariff but they have an addition low cost Blackberry plan for not-so-heavy users – pay Rs. 249 monthly rental and data access cost is 15 paise per KB of data downloaded (usage charges).
BlackBerry Internet Service supports Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk. It can be configured with any POP3/IMAP email account,whether personal or business. And if you are a Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail user, you can configure it directly on your BlackBerry smartphone without needing to enable POP3/IMAP.
BlackBerry Devices from Airtel are SIM locked to Airtel Network, and no other operator’s SIM will work on these devices.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/phones/blackberry-airtel-hutch-india/1161/
Reader Comments
I am using vodafone blackberry in Germany. Will this instrument work in India if I insert & use a Hutch/Vodafone simcard?
What would be the cost per month for unlimited download/usage? Or, could I please be provided with Hutch/Vodafone tariff card?
Thanks,
Ashok
Written by Ashok on 10.18.07
i am using a blackberry 7130g i want a blackberry vodafone connection what are the tarrif rates
Written by Subhabrata Dharchaudhuri on 11.25.07
Hi, This is Partha from Bangalore.
Recently i purchased Blackberry 8320 from Global Acces store. At the time of purchase they never told me that this handst is locked to Airtel service provider. generally i m using vodaphone no. but when i activated blackberry service on my vodaphone sim, its showing invalid sim.i went to shop n asked whats the problem. then they told me that they will provide me the handset which will work on vodaphone service provider within senven working days. But when i acces google n found that its just to call the concerned service provider to unlock the sim i was totally socked. Becoz this is the same thing they (global accesstore) r going to do with me. but for this simple thig they asked me to pay Rs. 1000.This is radicullaous. This is my advice to the other customers who r planning to buy blackberry, pls, go to the authorized blckberry shop or else people will try to cheat u loke anything. This is my suggestions to the Black berry handset dealers, pls provide the sufficient information on ur handsets.
Thanks n regards,
Partha
Written by Partha sarkar on 10.11.08
I want to buy a Blackberry bold 9000 BB 101, Please quote us rate and terms ASAP
Written by sandeep on 10.11.08