| Phone Plus Facility |
Gone are the days when basic telephones was used only to make and receive calls. With the aid of state-of-the-art digital exchanges, BSNL offers you a host of phone plus services, converting your old basic telephones to a sophisticated tool which can be used for a variety of applications.
All the Phone Plus facilities are available free of cost with effect from January 22nd, 2003. |
| | Call Waiting |
| | This facility lets you receive incoming calls even when your telephone is busy. You will get a short duration pip-pip tone when you are busy talking , indicating that another call is waiting for you , provided you have activated this facility. You can talk to any one of the callers keeping the other waiting. Complete secrecy of communication between the two callers is maintained. This facility is FREE of charge. |
| | Abbreviated Dialing |
| | You may be calling a few people very frequently. It is possible to program these numbers as abbreviated codes of 1 or 2 digits. A maximum of 20 numbers can be programmed for abbreviated dialing. It is ideal for STD/ISD. This facility is FREE of charge. |
| | Hot Line |
| | You may want to be connected directly to a pre-determined number as soon as you lift the hand set even without dialing . At the same time you may want to have the flexibility to dial any other number of your choice. It is possible to have this facility in the digital exchanges by the delayed hotline feature. The number of your choice can be programmed by the exchange staff at your request. After doing so if you lift the telephone and do not dial within 5 seconds , you will be automatically connected to the programmed number. However if you start dialing with in 5 seconds, you can make an outgoing call as usual. This facility is FREE of charge. |
| | Call Transfer (Call Forward) |
| | Useful for very mobile persons who may not want to miss incoming calls. Using this facility Calls can be forwarded to another telephone number designated by you. This facility is FREE of charge. |
| | Automatic Wake-Up/Reminder Call Service |
| | When you want to be given reminder at a specific time, all you have to do is to call the exchange and leave the time you want to be reminded. The facility allows you to initiate a call automatically by the exchange at a fixed time specified by the user of the telephone. |
| | Number/Call Hunting Service |
| | If you have more than one telephone line, this facility is very helpful for your caller. If the called line is engaged, your caller does not have to disconnect and dial other line(s). This facility automatically transfers the incoming call to whichever line is free. |
| | Calling Line Identification Presentation (CLIP) |
| | The subscriber has to buy separately the CLIP display device from market. Using this facility you can see the number of the calling party before lifting your telephone. Very useful to trace malicious caller. However, the CLIP instrument shall be procured and installed by the users themselves. |
| | Calling Line Identification (CLI) Announcement Service |
| | Dial 164 and listen to the number of the phone line that you have used to make the call. Very useful when in doubt about your phone number. This facility is FREE of charge.
You can also know the type of your exchange using this facility. |
| | Phone Bell Check |
| | Dial 162 for EWSD type exchanges and 165 for all other type of exchanges and after a few second replace the hand set. Your phone will ring very soon. Useful for checking functioning or adjusting volume of bell of your phone. This facility is FREE of charge. |
| | Electronic Locking For STD/ISD |
| | For 100% protection against improper use, you can lock your telephone electronically. Here, you only know the secret code. You can lock/allow Local, STD or ISD calls in many way viz. all calls allowed, only local calls allowed, only STD & Local calls allowed, all outgoing calls barred etc. |
| | Three-Party teleconference |
| | Say, party "A" & "B" first enter into conversation in the normal way. Say, "A" is having the facility. For joining in conference with a third party "C", "A" taps his phone set Hook Switch. "A" gets special dial tone and dials "C". When "A" & "C" are connected, "A" again taps his Hook Switch, gets special dial tone & dials "3". "A", "B" & "C" all three enter into conference. |
| | Tone Dialling Facility |
| | In tone dialing, for each digit a 2-tone combination is assigned. While dialing, this 2-tone combination is sent for each digit dialed. It is faster dialing and more accurate dialing. |
| | SMS on Land Line |
| | Procedure of Registration, Activation and Deactivation for getting SMS service on PSTN Help Line :
For help Line about the SMS Send SMS to 770 number. Registration and Activation :
For Registration and Activation of SMS, subscriber has to send any SMS from FSMS set to 771 number. Deactivation :
If you don't like to get the SMS service from your fixed Telephone LIne, you have to deactivate the line for SMS service. To do that send any SMS from your FSMS set to 772 number. |
