Did you know you can recharge your Prepaid Mobile connection with Citibank/ICICI ?
Be Aware, that it is harldly a good idea. Do it only when you have no other option. They charged me Rs.324 for a ~Rs.150 recharge, with a 15 day validity. Hardly an offer I would like. ( Also, it didn’t extend the validity, it just covered the validity from the day I recharged.) Sucks !
Here is how you go about it.
- You need to login to your online banking service.
- You should have an option that reads, ‘Recharge Prepaid Mobile’.
- Enter your mobile number.
- Select your mobile phone service provider, and the Amount you want to recharge for (there will be a minimum).
You can recharge anyones phone ( read friends/family using this service ).
I hope Airtel/Hutch/Idea/BSNL and all other service providers give out better deals(offers) for people who are trying to reach out to them online. Whoever gets there sooner, will enjoy success with subscribers. After all, sonner than later, everyone is going to be online ! 
This online recharge is available with most leading banks ( Citbank/ICICI/HDFC etc. ) and most service providers ( Airtel/Hutch/Idea etc. )
Update:
A few other websites have cropped up since I last wrote this post.
You can recharge your phones here:
Do let me know what you guys think of these services.
Comments 72
Citibank sucks, I recharge my cell(idea) with ICICI bank, usually the transaction completes in 15 mins, and ICICI bank never charged more. But may change its policy soon.
But once the recharge process is completed, idea sends no message.
Posted 02 Jul 2007 at 5:54 pm ¶I did get a message, saying it was recharged though.
Posted 05 Jul 2007 at 9:33 am ¶The funny part was, they did not inform me what package I was getting.
All they said, was the minimum recharge was for Rs.324 and thats all.
Also, no info regarding this could be found on the Airtel website.
324 for INR 150 talktime? WTF you got mugged….
Posted 07 Jul 2007 at 9:05 am ¶NOT very reliable .
Posted 15 Aug 2007 at 9:36 pm ¶……Recharge …….????
companies have to start recharge facility on their own website.
ICICI Bank Suxxxx
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 1:43 am ¶i want recharge rs 50 my conation idea
Posted 22 Sep 2007 at 4:39 pm ¶Many websites are coming up with online recharge. I think they would provide better service than big players. One of the website is I have checked is , they are planning to start online recharge service shortly.
Posted 28 Sep 2007 at 1:26 am ¶i want recharge Rs 100 vodafone gujarat
Posted 17 Nov 2007 at 9:05 pm ¶Hey i found one website for online mobile recharge, I hope it helps you all..
http://www.fastrecharge.com
Cheer..!!!
Posted 15 Jan 2008 at 11:29 pm ¶i want to recharge my phone
Posted 05 Feb 2008 at 12:12 pm ¶Hey thanks for posting fastrecharge.com , its really very usefull to do recharge in 24 X 7.
Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 10:50 pm ¶The best online Recharging Website is http://www.rechargeonline.in the most secured and preferable,
Posted 14 Mar 2008 at 3:46 pm ¶ya thanks mohsin i tried rechargeonline.in i got my phone recharged in 10 mins.
Posted 17 Mar 2008 at 7:16 pm ¶recharge
Posted 18 Mar 2008 at 11:45 am ¶DONT TRY rechargeonline.in
Its a SCAM.
Posted 31 Mar 2008 at 8:03 pm ¶250recharge
Posted 16 Apr 2008 at 5:01 pm ¶It’s an evolution in web….
Posted 05 May 2008 at 6:42 pm ¶ICICI bank prepaid mobile recharge really suckkkks..
Posted 06 May 2008 at 9:41 am ¶thx mohsin rechargeonline is superb i tried with 250 rc and its been done in 10 mins great service
Posted 10 May 2008 at 4:03 pm ¶best online recharge site http://www.rechargeonline.in my second rc also done in 10 mins
Posted 10 May 2008 at 4:04 pm ¶http://www.rechargetoday.com is the best site you all are looking for ….. hope this will help you out
Posted 12 May 2008 at 1:21 pm ¶Thanx Sai,
Posted 12 Jun 2008 at 9:20 am ¶I tried rechargetoday.com, but no respose since an hr, after a confirmation mail of order. Are you aware how long does it take to process. ?
Hi Pankaj,
You might have not transferred money to their Netbanking account & the order might be pending for payment from your end.
Funds must be transferred manually. I had an query with them regarding this and they said that no bank is offerring direct netbanking transfers as many of the banks themself have this mobile recharge service. So RechargeToday.com is providing bank transfers mannually.
I have recharged earlier for Rs.333 Airtel and in 3 min i got the recharge on my mobile after tranfering payment from my axis bank.
Posted 13 Jun 2008 at 11:33 pm ¶Thanx Sai,
Posted 14 Jun 2008 at 1:17 pm ¶yes this was the case as you suspected. Actually I thought I would be asked for netbanking through some links. I was later assisted by the rechargetoday sales team to know about the complete process, how it works. Thanks a lot agian.
Hi there,
Try http://www.ApnaBill.com – it went live just days ago and looks very promising…
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Posted 17 Jun 2008 at 11:17 pm ¶Maku
Oh btw, http://www.ApnaBill.com does not charges any surcharge on the coupons! A 100 bucks coupon is available for just 100 bucks!
No surcharge!
Posted 17 Jun 2008 at 11:19 pm ¶And netbanking is supported too!
Tx Maku for the information..I have tried to purchase voucher from http://www.apnabill.com & its not working.
They dont have full range of vouchers. Only one or two are available and that too with ” ran out of vouchers” error.
skip this site if you have better options than this.
Posted 22 Jun 2008 at 12:58 am ¶Hi Jai,
http://www.ApnaBill.com has one of the most active customer support. They answer within an hour for any queries.
Did you try writing to them?
I bet not!
Please don’t form opinions when you don’t know the full truth.
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Posted 01 Jul 2008 at 11:00 pm ¶Maku
http://www.apnabill.com
Hi Jai,
Do you know, http://www.ApnaBill.com has one of the most active customer support? All queries get answered within the hour.
Have you ever tried even writing to them?
I bet not!
Please do not troll if you don’t know the truth.
Regards,
Posted 01 Jul 2008 at 11:06 pm ¶Maku
it is the best site u looking for manya time.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 4:00 pm ¶Hi, Im using fastrecharge.com since 1yr .. i have never faced any problem yet..
Posted 16 Jul 2008 at 1:07 pm ¶your post are nice i prefer to go with http://www.fastrecharge.com ,….
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 6:34 pm ¶er… http://www.fastrecharge.com doesnt offer Airtel recharges for Karnataka… why?
Posted 03 Aug 2008 at 11:38 am ¶well prefer rechargeonline.in only i have tried them many times and i didnt found any error on them and customer support is awesome.
Posted 07 Aug 2008 at 8:39 pm ¶i have also used rechargeonline thru the suggestions and that is the only site acceptin credit card now we can recharge our phones online using credit cards.. http://www.rechargeonline.in rocks
Posted 07 Aug 2008 at 8:40 pm ¶recharge my no.
Posted 11 Aug 2008 at 4:36 pm ¶recharge with my mobile no.9915026436
Posted 11 Aug 2008 at 4:38 pm ¶hi, i used rechargeonline.in service is really wrost… sorry
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 10:30 pm ¶I got this:
‘Firefox can’t find the server at http://www.rechargeonline.in.’
A DNS lookup also fails, indicating it is not a temporary outage:
** server can’t find http://www.rechargeonline.in: SERVFAIL
To my surprise, I get a whois record:
Domain Name:RECHARGEONLINE.IN
Created On:03-Nov-2007 10:42:19 UTC
Registrant Name:mohsin ali
Registrant Organization:tara banke
Registrant City:hyderabad
We probably need to stick to banks or cellular service provider, however bad their service may be, for security.
Posted 19 Aug 2008 at 9:10 pm ¶i want to recharge airtel haryana online immediate transfer. which site should i visit? please let me know.
Posted 10 Oct 2008 at 7:49 pm ¶i wnt online recharg online now help
Posted 26 Oct 2008 at 4:36 pm ¶I always use HDFC bank online refill for my Airtel.
Its free and its safe.
In case of failure transaction they credit the money back to my account without fail. I am always using it since I have become an HDFC bank customer.
I have also used ICICI bank before. Its also safe and fast. But I have not used it for last one and half years, so don’t know it’s current hazards.
Posted 05 Nov 2008 at 11:39 am ¶I have used online recharge through ICICI bank but I just wanna know about the credit card recharge how can we recharge our prepaid by credit card through mobile phone..
Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 3:21 pm ¶i wan richarj card
Posted 12 Dec 2008 at 4:30 pm ¶so see my website Its very intersting news and all
Posted 17 Dec 2008 at 12:54 pm ¶ICICI Suxxxxxxxx Don’t use ICICI prepaid recharge…
Posted 31 Dec 2008 at 8:22 pm ¶hi
Posted 15 Jan 2009 at 7:59 pm ¶Hi Guys!
I’v discovered a very useful site where one can recharge their mobile/DTH online. It is a 24*7, PINless recharge service. Here’s the link for it:
http://rechargeitnow.com
Try it, it’s very good!
Posted 12 Feb 2009 at 3:11 pm ¶why does airtel not make online recharge possible from their own website ? if i am wrong can anyone give me the link ?
Posted 21 Mar 2009 at 7:17 am ¶makuchaku, and maku are paid employee & agents of apanbill.com. Do NOT listen to their posts HERE as they are promoting their own website
Airtel is accepting payments online only from credit card which is very dangeroous, and has stopped netbanking payments form their website
Posted 21 Mar 2009 at 4:18 pm ¶I recharged through AirTel online service for Rs.121. Although the amount was debited in my ICICI account, the amount did not get increased in my prepaid balance. This happened earlier also and also when I recharged my TataSky account thro ICICI. Better to do such transactions manually.
Posted 27 Mar 2009 at 11:37 am ¶this
Posted 25 Apr 2009 at 3:27 pm ¶searchinggggggggggg
Posted 01 May 2009 at 10:22 am ¶my no is 09910921105 i want my rechage top up card is serial no. 1110901007114242 scratch problem number missing so pls my rechage no send my email. abhishekumaryadav@gmail.com
Posted 03 May 2009 at 10:31 am ¶The best way to recharge vodafone prepaid mobile is through vodafone offical web site “http://www.vodafone.in/online_prepaid_recharge/online_recharge_mobile.aspx” try this
Posted 06 May 2009 at 6:06 pm ¶100recharge
Posted 08 May 2009 at 12:42 pm ¶110012
Posted 15 May 2009 at 6:42 pm ¶i want my phone recharge with 111 upees
Posted 29 May 2009 at 9:54 am ¶Please note that there all the websites that have been stated here who claim that they recharge your mobie are fraud. If you want to recharge your prepaid mobile use websites of banks such as hdfc, icici, etc. or use service provider websites like airtel, idea, vodafone, etc.
Posted 05 Jul 2009 at 11:48 am ¶If you read some of the comments posted on this blog you will notice that some people have started their own websites and promoting it through different names of people.
Don’t be a victim of this fraud. Moreover there are plenty of shops who have recharge cards. Why would you want recharge online in the first place.
Very good info buddy. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 at 10:59 pm ¶Now fastrecharge.com offering Flexi recharge for all services like Airtel, Vodafone, Virgin, Aircel etc… This flexi recharge available for all circle across india.
Posted 16 Aug 2009 at 3:51 pm ¶Hey i couldnt open page from the above given site what to do …i stay at hyderabad…and need recharge to my airtel number…..
Posted 26 Aug 2009 at 3:04 pm ¶hi friends, i am a student of management institute, i am doing a assignment on web recharge online so .. i wanted a anwsers for few of my questions given below please if you know the anwser even for a one question kindly let me know
Posted 05 Sep 2009 at 1:38 pm ¶1. how many % of people does recharge online in india?
2. what is the avg. amount recharge done per day in online ?
3. do web site do recharge properly on time?
4. mostly when do the people recharge online?
Reply me at
aimofajith@gmail.com
i found this website gives tata docomo recharge online.
Posted 17 Sep 2009 at 12:13 am ¶and i got instantly in andhra pradesh.
thank you.
i found this website http://www.anytimerecharge.com gives tata docomo recharge online.
Posted 17 Sep 2009 at 12:25 am ¶and i got instantly in andhra pradesh.
thank you.
Hi everyone, I’m using easy online recharge from vodafone. It’s really awesome and one of the best site to recharge I tried it works well.
Posted 25 Sep 2009 at 5:41 pm ¶yeah!!! above one is a good site for online recharge but it has some problem to open. I think this is the correct page.
Posted 25 Sep 2009 at 5:55 pm ¶http://www.vodafone.in/online_prepaid_recharge/online_recharge_mobile.aspx
i want airtel free recharge 100
Posted 27 Sep 2009 at 4:55 pm ¶Hello,
For Indian mobile recharge you must visit http://www.rechargeguru.com if you are be regular user of recharge guru you will get Rs.10 easy recharge for free. GSM, CDMA, DTH easy recharge are available. Best part they support paypal.com
So come be a part of rechargeguru.com
Also promote rechargeguru.com by becoming its affiliate http://www.affiliateraja.com and earn free prepaid recharge.
Regards
Posted 27 Sep 2009 at 9:36 pm ¶Rohan.
I did not find recgarge option by e-banking in Airtel’s site and had to go out in search of a recharge voucher every time I need. On the other hand BSNL & Vodafon have excelent option for recharge through e-banking. Airtel should go BSNL/ Vodafon way for easy recharge.
Posted 06 Nov 2009 at 7:10 pm ¶Hi,
I found recently a website http://www.babuchak.com which recharges all the Indian Service providers & thats too for free of cost.
I recharges our mobiles at MRP & dosent charges any payment gateway fees or internet additional fees for recharging the mobile.
It also offers prizes worth rs.30000 daily for recharging your mobile.
It also provides business sms at 1paise/sms
The lowest pack it offered is 1000sms @ Rs.10,,,, while others charges Rs.150+ for the same 1000 sms..
Isnt it great service from Babuchak.com
It recharges Tata Docomo, MTS, MTNL< BPL, Airtel, Aircel, Garuda, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, Reliance GSM & CDMA & lots more.
Its the Indias first web site providing mobile recharges at MRP price. . .
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