Setting up GPRS or 3G

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Many mobile phone operators do not automatically set up GPRS or 3G when you buy your phone, so there a lot of people out there with GPRS enabled phones without the settings. So this explains how to get those settings.

If you have a Nokia you're lucky because this is a great site for setting up anything to do with Nokia ( Jobin Has Nokia )

Nokia Settings Page

You can set up WAP, GPRS, 3G easily by calling your mobile operator's free customer care line, here are some numbers please add more by clicking edit, so that we can make this page the number 1 resource for setting up GPRS.


United Kingdom

02:

Call 4445 from your mobile (hot key 9), or 08705 678 678

Email o2datasupport@o2.com

O2 doesn’t provide this service to Pay as you go customers.

£3 per MB


Orange:

Call 150 from a Pay Monthly phone or 450 from a Pay as you go phone.

£4 per MB


T-Mobile:

Call 150 from your mobile phone.

£20.48 per MB


Virgin:

Call 789 for help.

Try this online form!

£5.12 per MB


Vodafone:

Call 191 from your mobile phone.

£7.48 per MB


Fresh:

0870 111 5000

£3 per MB


Tesco:

0870 900 4455


Sainsbury's Mobile:

0870 990 9694


South Africa

Vodacom:

call 111

dial *111# and follow the instructions

R2 per MB


MTN:

call 173

dial *123# and follow the instructions

R1 per MB


Cell C:

call 140

R14 per MB(depends on which data package you have selected)


Virgin Mobile:

Once sim card is inserted for the first time, your setting will be sent to you via SMS

50 cents per MB


Botswana:

Mascom:

call 111 from your Mascom mobile phone

email: internet@mascom.bw

sms: "subscribe" to 474474