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Do you know the meaning of Prefix used in Bulk SMS For India?

 

In December 2008, TRAI mandated the policy of sending Bulk SMS. Where they shared various key points that one should remember before sending messages as mentioned below:

1. Firstly check that your SMS sender ID in India would be a total of 9 characters.

2. It is mandatory that your Sender Id should be approved on DLT.

3. These sender ids should be in the format **-******. These nine characters should be like, first two characters to be alphabets and the third, a hyphen or dash and the last 6 characters again alphabets.

4. The first two Characters would be the first character that will be denoting the operator name i.e who is originating the SMS, the Second Character denoting the telecom circle.

5. After hyphen or dash, there should be 6 characters that can be alphabets or numeric. The users can’t use alphanumeric characters in the sender ID.

6. The sender id should be by the name of a person or business so that the user can easily identify the business name through the sender id.

7. These user ids are the combination of prefix and sender names like BP-XXXXXX.

8. Here, BP is prefix and used with the combination of the next 6 alphabets like XXXXXX. These are called sender id. Through this combination users receive messages.

 

 

In this SMS Prefix format, the first character will be the operator's name & the second character will be the circle name. Find below some important sender id prefix formats:

a) AD - Airtel Delhi

b) BP - BSNL Punjab

c) VK - Vodafone Kolkata

d) VM - Vodafone Mumbai

e) JD - Jio Delhi

f) CP - Videocon Punjab

g) AX - Airtel Karnataka

h) VZ - Vodafone Maharashtra and Goa

i) JM - Jio Mumbai

j) BT - BSNL TamilNadu incl. Chennai

k) BR - BSNL Rajasthan

l) VD - Vodafone Delhi

m) MD - MTNL Delhi

n) JG - Jio Gujarat

o) JX - Jio Karnataka

 

Below are some important codes of Service Providers as well as the areas.

Service Provider Codes

i) A: Bharti Airtel and Bharti Hexacom

ii) B: BSNL

iii) C: Datacom

iv) D: Aircel and Dishnet Wireless

v) E: Reliance Telecom

vi) H: HFCL

vii) I: Idea Cellular, Aditya Birla Telecom

viii) J: Jio

ix) L: Loop Telecom and BPL

x) M: MTNL

xi) P: Spice Communications

xii) R: Reliance Communications

xiii) S: S. Tel Ltd

xiv) T: Tata Teleservices, Tata Teleservices Maharashtra

xv) U: Unitech Group of Companies (Telenor)

xvi) V: Vodafone Group of Companies

xvii) W: Swan Telecom

xviii) Y: Shyam Telecom

 

Service Area Codes

1) A: Andhra Pradesh

2) B: Bihar

3) D: Delhi

4) E: UP (East)

5) G: Gujarat

6) H: Haryana

7) I: Himachal Pradesh

8) J: Jammu & Kashmir

9) K: Kolkata

10) L: Kerala

11) M: Mumbai

12) N: North East

13) O: Orissa

14) P: Punjab

15) R: Rajasthan

16) S: Assam

17) T: Tamil Nadu, including Chennai

18) V: West Bengal

19) W: UP (West)

20) X: Karnataka

21) Y: Madhya Pradesh

22) Z: Maharashtra


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