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Recently, from almost a month SMSs from Banks, Service Providers, Companies have started prefixing something like ID, AT, VK…etc. What’s all this after all!!? Here I am to explain you what it is! Normally these SMSs originates from a Bulk SMS provider where you can use 11 digit Alpha-Numeric characters as "Sender". But there were some security risks in this method. I was able to give a phone number as "Sender" & it appears as that person at the recipient end. Basically there was a chance to send SMSs as a different person! I was actually using this to fool my friends.

But the new TRAI regulation insisted bulk SMS providers to restrict the "Sender ID" to 8 characters. Other three characters should be used to specify who is the service provider & where it’s originated from. Say for example: HDFCBANK sends an SMS to you using bulk SMS provider located at Tamil Nadu which uses Airtel. You will receive it as AT-HDFCBANK. First character specifies which service provider the message is being originated & the second character specifies from which location it’s originated. Here is the table which has details of these SMS codes:

Service Provider Codes:

Service Provider Code
Aircel, Dishnet Wireless D
Bharti Airtel A
BSNL B
BPL Mobile/Loop Telecom L
Datacom Solutions C
HFCL Infotel H
Idea Cellular I
MTNL M
Reliance Communications R
Reliance Telecom E
S tel S
Shyam Telecom Y
Spice Telecom P
Swan Telecom W
Tata Teleservices T
Unitech Group U
Vodafone Group V

 

 

Service Area Code
Andhra Pradesh A
Assam S
Bihar B
Delhi D
Gujarat G
Haryana H
Himachal Pradesh I
Jammu & Kashmir J
Karnataka X
Kerala L
Kolkata K
Madhya Pradesh Y
Maharashtra Z
Mumbai M
North East N
Orissa O
Punjab P
Rajasthan R
Tamil Nadu T
UP-East E
UP-West W
West Bengal V

So, combination of these two constitutes the first two digit of ?Sender? followed by an hyphen (-) & actual sender name.


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View Comments to “You have been receiving SMS codes: TA-ICICI, AX-Airtel…and wondering what’s it?”

  1. Thanks for the explanation dude. Lovely post.

  2. The codes were introduced by TRAI to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication conducted by some miscreant Bulk SMS Providers and to effectively enforce the NDNC.
    With these codes implemented, subscribers can now actually trace out the Sender ID/Bulk SMS Aggregator in India and the Mobile Operator can take suitable action.

  3. Can I also send the sms

  4. Cool. Thanks for the info.

  5. Very informative post! Thanks!

  6. If you could give information on how to block these SMS will be very useful

  7. Please provide info about blocking these SMS..
    Its very irritating.. Thanks

  8. Hope you don’t mind if I use it on my blog. Tables ofcourse..

  9. Good information but will you please tell of one thing that now a days so many software are also available there on net by which we can send unlimited free sms to anywhere in the world through internet and for this purpose we do not need any type of operator to send there sms them how will we know about location and sender information

  10. Hi Anil, I dont think there is any such website which allows you unconditional Free SMS. Either it has poor or no delivery or it would carry an advertisement in the ending 20-40 characters of the SMS. Real brands and corporates never sign up for any such things, not only does it give a very poor impression on the recipient but also there is no mechanism provided like Delivery Reports in most of these providers.

  11. hi.ur knowleg is good but not showing detailing TA-also useing smsgupshup.com group. wich can receiving in every service provider,
    some international provider is also sending sms by TA. so how can i know where from they sent sms?

  12. Hi,

    Can any tell me how can i send this kind of SMS starting with TA or anything with low price to my customers.

    Please help me finding a solution.

    Thanks
    Raja
    rajadpk@gmail.com

  13. Thank You for the information.

  14. I Want to send sms as per above name


  15. BG ORTHOMAX

  16. Thanks….

  17. Besides everyone needs to maintain some “liquid” assets for emergencies and as a buffer in the event of a cashflow crunch. I experienced this first-hand when in April this year I decided to quit my comfortable job to finish off my CFP and then to take a short hiatus from working life.

  18. Thanks!!! Cool Info……

  19. I am also receiving these bulk smss like TA-rert, TC-wert .. I got some solution here funjokey.com..
    I thk u like this great site
    kumar

  20. I am also receiving these bulk smss like TA-rert, TC-wert .. I got some solution here funjokey.com..
    I thk u like this great site
    kumar

  21. Hi, Need to send some 5000 sms to the mobile numbers which i dont have. Can u help me out.

  22. Get your avatar Abdus Salam AnsariApril 16th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    This reallly very informative

  23. Thank you for sharing with us.

  24. So Plz Buy Bulk sms

  25. plz tell me i want send sms from ta-amit etc plz reply me my id is raj_zindagi@yahoo.co.in

  26. For Free Sms

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