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Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has made access to online social networking site Facebook free for its over 130 million subscribers, the company said Monday.   The offer will, however, be available only for two months till Aug 31.   The Facebook site will be available in English, Hindi and five more Indian languages - Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam.   "For the two-month period, the partnership enables Airtel customers to access Facebook’s full mobile site faster and at no data cost from their Airtel mobiles via m.facebook.com," said an Airtel statement.   Customers, accessing mobile Internet for the first time need to SMS ‘FACEBOOK’ to 54321 to take advantage of this offer.

You need a PC or a Laptop and the required connectivity tools ,ie., Serial/USB cable OR Infrared Device OR Bluetooth dongle 1) Activate Airtel Live! ( It’s FREE so no probs) 2) Create TWO Airtel gprs data accounts (yep TWO) and select the FIRST as the active profile. 3) Connect your mobile to the PC (or Laptop) and install the driver for your mobile’s modem. 4) Create a new dial-up connection using the NEW CONNECTION WIZARD as follows Connecting Device : Your mobile’s modem ISP Name : Airtel (or anything you like) Phone Number : *99***2# / Try 99***1 Username and Password : blank 5) Configure your browser and download manager to use the proxy 100.1.200.99 and port 8080.( My advice is to use Opera since you can browse both wap and regular websites) 6) Connect to the dial-up account. You will be connected at 115.2 kbps (but remember, that is a bad joke). 7) Pick up your mobile and try to access any site. You will get “Access Denied…”(except for Airtel Live!). I...