Can Bulk SMS Be Traced?

Bulk SMS Service is becoming an innovative tool for sending promotional messages and conveying urgent information to our customers. It has made our connection with the target audience easy and effortless. But if we want to know from where that bulk SMS has come, is it possible? Can bulk SMS be traced? The answer to this question is yes, we can trace that from which operator and which location it has been delivered.

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Have you ever wondered what is the significance of first 2 alphabetical characters placed at the beginning of the actual Sender ID. Suppose you receive an SMS from Axis bank such as IY-AXSBNK. This means that the message has come from Idea cellular, Madhya Pradesh. The first character that is ‘I’ represents the code for Service Provider and the second character ‘Y’ represents the code for Service Area. This way we can easily determine the location and the operator from where the message is sent.

Let us understand this with an example.

The image below shows the sender ID as VK-iPaytm. Here V stands for Vodafone and K stands for Kolkata. It means that the SMS is received through Vodafone, Kolkata.

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What is the use of tracing bulk SMS?

According to TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), it is mandatory for every unsolicited bulk SMS sender to use these codes as sender names so that any malicious or illegal activities can be prevented. So if something happens against the law, its location can be traced easily.

In the below table, you will find the list of codes for service area.

Location code list

Location of service circleCode
Andhra PradeshA
BiharB
DelhiD
UP EastE
GujaratG
HaryanaH
Himachal PradeshI
Jammu and KashmirJ
KolkataK
KeralaL
MumbaiM
North EastN
OrissaO
PunjabP
RajasthanR
AssamS
Tamil NaduT
West BengalV
UP WestW
KarnatakaX
Madhya Pradesh and ChhattisgarhY
MaharashtraZ

In the following table, you will see the list of codes for service providers.

Operator code list

OperatorCode
AirtelA
BSNLB
AircelD
Reliance TelecomE
VideoconQ
Idea Cellular I
Reliance JioJ
BPL Mobile/Loop TelecomL
MTNLM
Reliance CommunicationsR
Tata TeleservicesT
UnitechU
VodafoneV

 

It will be a wise decision to take the services of a reputed bulk SMS provider, if we wish to have more engagement with our customers. Bulk SMS marketing is the best tool for advertising a business. Bulk SMS can be traced and this proves that it is the most safest and direct method to communicate with our customers. Sign up now at Fast2SMS to avail these services.

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