Okay, I’ve been asked how to do this thrice in the last week alone. It’s a fairly simple process, and I would think most people should already know how acheive this, but I find a few who either do not know how or seem to find issues with it – I am actually talking about Configuring your Blackberry device so that you can access the Internet without a Data Plan

So I’ll just put up this quick post on how to do this, for the benefit of anyone who may find this information useful. Before going any further, I’d like to make it clear that this post actually covers setting up your BlackBerry hand held device to connect to the Internet through Mobile Networks in Ghana, however you may be able to apply the same to your Mobile Network if you are able to obtain the configuration information below from your mobile network operator. So here goes;

1. Okay, the very first thing you would want to do would be to make sure your Blackberry device has the “right” Operating System. You’d be needing your Blackberry device to have OS 3.8 or greater. If you have an older version, you may want to Download Blackberry OS 4.0 and install it on your Blackberry device first..
2. Once that’s out of the way, you can go ahead to configure TCP / IP settings for your Blackberry hand held device as follows;-
   • Click the Blackberry Icon  on your device to access the main menu, and then Go to Options  ->Advanced Options -> TCP/IP
   • Check to make sure that APN is enabled and Enter the following, depending on your Mobile Operator
     . 

     Network	APN Setting
     MTN	internet
     Airtel	zaininternet
     Tigo	wap.tigo.com.gh

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That’s it! You should now be able to connect to the Internet via any web browser or application(s) that supports TCP / IP. As far as browsers go, I for one would opt for Opera Mini.