Help me find Airtel Data plan on Roaming, how to use it at best?

Dear broad band users,

1. I am using Airtel prepaid phone (Circle Jaipur Rajasthan).

2. I took 3G Data plan of 500 MB around 4th July 2014. It is widely publicized by Airtel that Data roaming can be used anywhere in India .

3.I went to NCR region on 24/25th july 2014 and I found that Data plan is not working there.


4.A call to 121 could not give any satisfactory answer.

5.Later on in my phone ( Nexus 5) there was a prompt that if I activate data plan now ( while I was in NCR), there may be substantial phone charges.


Please clarify two things.

1. If I opt for data plan in this number and take it on roaming shall I also take a national roaming plan etc. And keep the data plan ON while going out of Region.

2. The data plan has to be kept on all the time while I am on roaming?

3. Or it can turned off once I reach NCR etc. and the put it on when I need it.


I find that data consumption shown by Airtel is too high. For example when I check mail , without any downloading or uploading, even then several MBs are consumed.

Thanks

Devesh Kumar Arora

if you turn on data on roaming on android, the message comes from the phone and not airtel that you might face significant roaming charges. it is shown to everyone that has a device running (stock) android. it is a generic message.

and when you turn on data... it is available to all the apps running on the phone seeking data. this includes your email client, social media apps and other apps that are designed to update in the background.

you should play around with the setting that restricts background usage of data to avoid high consumption of cellular data.

of course, disable sync if you have it enabled.

Data roaming can indeed be used anywhere in India and the data is deducted from your data pack.

And as @chromaniac said, the data roaming checkbox needs to be ticked to allow usage of data while roaming.