April update: Airtel BIS browsing on Android, PC and other devices

So many people have awaited for this update to come so that they will know their fate concerning whether Airtel BIS is still browsing on Android, PC, Apple and other devices and also to know whether they will renew their subscription or not.

In this month of April, Airtel has made many changes with regards to browsing the internet with Blackberry internet subscription on non-blackberry devices. 

But the very first good news that I will be leaving you with here is that Airtel BIS is still blazing on non-blackberry devices such as your Android devices, your PC, Apple devices etc. up till this very moment that this article is being published and as you are currently reading it.

Now, talking about the changes that Airtel has made this month; Airtel has been able to totally separate the BIS bundle from the normal Airtel data bundle and have assigned another and a separate code for checking your blackberry bundle balance. You will agree with me that before now, you can use any of these codes *141*712*0# or *141*11*0# or *123*10# to check for both BIS and normal airtel bundle balance. 

But now, it is no longer the case with airtel BIS, as the above codes can now be used to check for airtel normal data bundle plans only and so if you now wish to check for your Airtel BIS bundle balance, the new code is *123*9#.

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So if you subscribe for any of the Airtel BIS plans now and you went ahead to check your bundle plans with any of those previous codes, you either get this feedback “Dear customer, you do not have an active data plan” or that “you have 0.00MB of data available” and this has really been the bone of contention amongst many airtel users and it makes them feel or fear that airtel has deducted their subscription credit without being subscribed into the airtel BIS plan they opted for. 

Just as I have said, if you subscribe to any of the airtel BIS plans, this is now the right code to be using in checking for your available or remaining BIS data bundle balance, *123*9#.

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Secondly, what this now entails is that unlike before, when you subscribe to any of the Airtel BIS plans, and if it was unable to connect and browse, you were asked to top it up with Airtel N100 and dial the code *141*11*1# so as to activate the browsing with the additional 10MB that will be added, this time around, you no longer need to top up with any N100 airtime, as if you go ahead to do so, you will only get the 10MB that will be added  to your normal airtel bundle balance and it will no longer add up to that of the BIS bundle balance to boost it up.

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Finally, the last change that I want to mention here made by airtel this month on Airtel BIS browsing on Android, PC and other devices is more or less a sad one I must confess, is that your Airtel BIS bundle no longer last long as before, it now gets exhausted faster. 

For example, your N1,500 airtel BIS subscription will actually give you 2GB as usual, but the 2GB finishes quickly as if it was 1GB that was given to you, and the same goes with the daily plan of N100 for 80MB and that of the weekly plan of N525 for 400mb, browsing with them on non-blackberry devices zaps the data bundle quickly unlike before and this is quite unfortunate in this era of high cost internet data bundles by all the available service providers in the country. 

What can one do at this very moment other that just to keep managing it because it is still cheaper or opt for MTN night plan that offer 4.5GB for N2,500.