BSNL Mobile customers can enjoy Missed Call Alert (MCA) Service absolutely free. This facility is available to BSNL’s prepaid and postpaid mobile customers in all the telecom circles except North Zone. With BSNL Missed Call Alert Service, you can retrieve missed call details via SMS.
North Zone includes – Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, UP East, UP West and Uttaranchal telecom circles. Customers in those areas can also subscribe to BSNL Missed Call Alert service at a nominal charge of just Rs 15 per month. This value added service from BSNL is totally free to BSNL mobile customers in all other telecom circles.
Here’s How you can Activate / De-Activate BSNL Missed Call Alert Service on your Mobile Number
All you need to do to activate BSNL’s Missed Call Alert Service is to ‘divert voice calls when out of coverage area’ to the number ‘+9117010’.
Step by step procedure to Activate BSNL Missed Call Alert service
Go to Settings (or Open Dial pad)
Select : Call settings
Select : Call divert/Call Forward
Select : ‘Divert when Out of Coverage Area’ (Options may differ from phone to phone )
Type the Number +9117010
Save the settings
Open ‘Settings’, then search for ‘Call Settings’
Or
Open your Phone ‘Dial pad’
Tap on ‘Options’ tab
Open ‘Call forwarding settings’,
and select the option – ‘When unreachable’
Then enter the number +9117010 and tap on ‘Turn on‘
Missed Call Alert Service Activation via USSD Short Code
Most of the latest mobile handsets allows customers to activate Missed Call Alert (MCA) Service by dialing the USSD code:**62*+9117010#
Step by step procedure to De-activate BSNL Missed Call Alert service
Go to Settings (or Open Dial pad)
Select : Call settings
Select : Call divert / Call Forward
Select : When Unreachable
Delete the number +9117010
Save the settings
Open ‘Settings’, ‘Call Settings’, ‘Call Forwarding settings’
then select ‘When Unreachable’
Tap on ‘Turn off’ to deactivate BSNL Missed Call Alert Service
Missed Call Alert Service De-Activation via USSD Short Code
Some handsets allows the customers to de-activate the Missed Call Alert(MCA) Service by dialing the USSD code: ##002#
BSNL Free Missed Call alert service is extremely useful when your mobile handset is Switched Off or Out of Coverage area or out of reach. If you had activated Missed Call Alert Service for all those different options, then you will get SMS notification whenever you came back in BSNL coverage area.
BSNL Missed Call Alert SMS
The received SMS will contain the mobile number, the day and time of call, and the count of calls missed. While all private operators are charging their customers for this facility, BSNL Mobile customers (except North Zone) can get the same absolutely free.
The above activation / de-activation procedure is the same for all prepaid and postpaid BSNL Mobile users of all BSNL circles across India. So readers, please do share this valuable information with your friends so that they may also get benefited with this service.
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