Across India maximum number of mobile customers of all Telecom companies suffer from the unwanted marketing messages and calls.These messages and calls are extremely annoying, and there is no way proper information on how to activate this service.
This service was formerly called DND (Do Not Disturb), which now transformed to NCPR (National Consumer Preference Register) by the TRAI (The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India).
Previously, people who subscribed to DND had chances to receive the unsolicited promotions calls from their mobile network operators. With NCPR, the chances of receiving these unwanted messages is almost zero
According to NCPR, a mobile customer in India can stop all the unwanted marketing calls and messages whenever he/she wants.
This service can provide mobile user for choosing various options according to their requirement.
This process of activating Do-Not-Disturb service is all same for Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Tata DoCoMo,Idea Cellular, Loop Mobile, MTNL, Reliance Communications, MTS India, Tata Indicom, Uninor, Vodafone and etc.
For Blocking of all Category Category calls
Send SMS at START 0 to 1909 or Call at 1909
For Partial Blocking Category procedure
- Send SMS at START 1 to 1909 to block Banking – Insurance – Financial Products – Credit Cards
- Send SMS at START 2 to 1909 to block Real Estate
- Send SMS at START 3 to 1909 to block Education
- Send SMS at START 4 to 1909 to block Health
- Send SMS at START 5 to 1909 to block Consumer Goods and Automobiles
- Send SMS at START 6 to 1909 to block Communication – Broadcasting – Entertainment – IT
- Send SMS at START 7 to 1909 to block Tourism
De-Register the DND service to receive the marketing calls and messages in future.
Procedure For Blocking of all Category Category calls
Just send SMS to 1909 USSD code as STOP . You can also call 1909 to cancel the service.
Key points to remember with DND registration:
DND (NCPR) cannot block your bank SMS alerts, bank communications, online bookings, third party personal calling, and etc. It takes minimum 7 days to process your request to stop the unwanted messages. You should have atcleast 3 months of time before applying to new DND request after the previous one.
Calls and messages to 1909 is completely toll free, and you don’t have to pay anything.
