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My teleco has provided Internet facility in which you can put data SIM card in a USB dongle and use Internet. Its call Ncell Connect . In neighboring country like India, some of them are called  Reliance Netconnect+ . In such data SIM card you can only use SMS and Internet. You can't make phone calls. So to recharge or to know about the balance or data balance you have to send SMS. For Windows the software to do all of these comes bundled with the USB dongle. For Linux we'll find our own way. Let us use awesome program called gammu . For Ubuntu, click here to install. After pluging in the USB dongle open terminal and type: dmesg | grep tty This will tell you where your USB dongle is connected. For example mine is ttyUSB0 . Make note of this. Now run gammu-config to configure gammu. You only have to change one thing here. In Port the value should be /dev/ttyUSB0 where ttyUSB0 is what you noted above. Press OK and now we are ready to run gamm...

Today I grabbed the golden offer and bought Ncell data card for Re 1 ( Re 1 == $1/75). Ncell data SIM card is like any other SIM card that can be inserted into a USB dongle and used for high speed Internet.  Its like Reliance 3G Data card in India. Source: blog.ncell.com.np It is popularly known by the name  Ncell connect . Ncell connect comes with wonderful software for Windows and Mac. From there you can do the all the operation like connecting, recharging, balance checking etc for successfully using the service. For Linux we can use *better software known by the name wammu . I personally use wammu with Ncell connect to do the following things: Check account balance Check Internet balance Recharge account Check signal strenth And this is a picture guide to accomplish the above functions. First install wammu by clicking here . Once its installed open it. You'll be greeted by following dialog box Click yes and you'll see welco...