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MTNL Helps You Find Your Location
Techtree News Staff, Sep 07, 2009 1847 hrs ISTWhat are you looking for?
Subscribers of MTNL Dolphin and Trump can now enjoy the Location Based Services (LBA) being offered by the state-owned telecom operator.
With this service, users can 'find' a lot of information when on the go - for example, if you're lost, you can find your own location, find a friend's location (who uses MTNL), a bank close by, etc.
Cost
The service is being offered free for a week between September 5th and September 11, 2009. Post this, users will be charged Re. 1 for per query answered via SMS.
Get Started
After you've registered for the service via the MTNL toll-free helpline (1503), and visited the website, you can start off with the following list of facilities on offer:
1. Find Me: To know the location of self.
Type 'FDM'
Send it to 50123
2. Find Friend: To know the location of friend.
Type 'FDF' followed by 91xxxxxx* (91 followed by the 10 digit MTNL number of your friend followed by an asterisk sign), send this to 50123.
Your friend would receive a message asking for his or her permission to share their location with you. On confirmation, you will receive their location information.
3. Find POI: To find nearest locations like airport, bank, hotel etc.
For example, if you want to find a hospital's location near you (you can look up for a place within 5000m of distance), type 'FDP hospital' and send it to 50123.
4. Find navigation: To find tourist destinations of city.
For example, type 'NAVPT bank' and send it to 50123.
5. City site seeing: To find nearest location like park, temple etc.
For example, type 'CSS temple' and send it to 50123.
For detailed explanation of the text codes, click here.
Conclusion
We tried out this service, both on mobile as well as on the website. Even though this is a value added service that offers a little something extra to MTNL subscribers, we found it to be overall inefficient.
Non-GPS users are likely to find this service exciting, while those unaware of the glories of Google Maps may get lured by the slow, cluttered map when trying the service on a computer connected to the internet.
Even though LBA service offers each round of information for Re. 1, it is unlikely that users addicted to 'JustDial' services available in the metro cities would consider shifting to MTNL's location based services.
With this service, users can 'find' a lot of information when on the go - for example, if you're lost, you can find your own location, find a friend's location (who uses MTNL), a bank close by, etc.
Cost
The service is being offered free for a week between September 5th and September 11, 2009. Post this, users will be charged Re. 1 for per query answered via SMS.
Get Started
After you've registered for the service via the MTNL toll-free helpline (1503), and visited the website, you can start off with the following list of facilities on offer:
1. Find Me: To know the location of self.
Type 'FDM'
Send it to 50123
2. Find Friend: To know the location of friend.
Type 'FDF' followed by 91xxxxxx* (91 followed by the 10 digit MTNL number of your friend followed by an asterisk sign), send this to 50123.
Your friend would receive a message asking for his or her permission to share their location with you. On confirmation, you will receive their location information.
3. Find POI: To find nearest locations like airport, bank, hotel etc.
For example, if you want to find a hospital's location near you (you can look up for a place within 5000m of distance), type 'FDP hospital' and send it to 50123.
4. Find navigation: To find tourist destinations of city.
For example, type 'NAVPT bank' and send it to 50123.
5. City site seeing: To find nearest location like park, temple etc.
For example, type 'CSS temple' and send it to 50123.
For detailed explanation of the text codes, click here.
Conclusion
We tried out this service, both on mobile as well as on the website. Even though this is a value added service that offers a little something extra to MTNL subscribers, we found it to be overall inefficient.
Non-GPS users are likely to find this service exciting, while those unaware of the glories of Google Maps may get lured by the slow, cluttered map when trying the service on a computer connected to the internet.
Even though LBA service offers each round of information for Re. 1, it is unlikely that users addicted to 'JustDial' services available in the metro cities would consider shifting to MTNL's location based services.
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