During the last couple of months I am hearing from few of my friends that they are using free GPRS internet service while using their zong number. Since I am not personally using zong that is why I didn’t take keen interest, nor did I surely believed in their words. but however when they do it practically in front of me. It was then I belived when i came to know the way they are using it. Infact i was surprised & it was hard for me to believe that how it is easy to crack zong data center to enjoy free GPRS . Although I am not certain about other places in Pakistan but the place where I live (around 70 Km north from Islamabad) this free service exist till last week. Then finally the engineers from zong get awaken to fixed the bug. So onwards it start charging balance when one connects GPRS from their cell phone. Yes! Another interesting thing I came to know is that the bug of free GPRS exists in the network since last year (June 2008). A little no of people knows about it. Infact they dont want the officials of ZONG to know about this bug & they can enjoy free GPRS for maximum period of time.

The method to use free GPRS is simple, you didn’t need any special settings to do with your cell phone, all you need to do is to activate the GPRS for your zong number by Sending an SMS like ” All-Space-Maker of your cell phone-Space-Model No and send to 131″. Once your gprs setting is done. Then you have to make sure that you have zero balance in your account. The answer is yes? So you are ready to enjoy free GPRS from zong.

I assume there might be two possibilities that resulted in the procession of free GPRS for zong users. One, since zong came in line with the GSM operators in Pakistan during the first quarter of 2008. Being new in already establised market by strong competitors. Zong in order to demonstrate a uniqe practice of direct marketing, there is a posibility that the engineers are ignoring this bug as an order from the management to boost up the sale, I witnessed when this interesting news was spread around the teens at my town, zongs Sims in the market sells like hot cake. Secondly there is also a probability that zong has not done with the secure data protection solution at there high end like MSC & data centers & there happened to be a serious fault in zong network during that perioud of time. PS: If anyone is still using free GPRS service (another bug) from any mobile operator in Pakistan, it would be highly appreciated if they share their experience with us. Cheers