Disabling Answering Service on your landline
PTCL has quietly activated answering service on its phone lines. I called various places in Karachi today for official purposes and ended up at listening to the answering service prompt.
If your home or office phone number gets a bill of Rs 1,400 per month or more, your line has been crowned with this unsolicited ‘facility’. Of course it is not necessary for PTCL to tell you how to retrieve the messages that your dear callers have deposited in your mailbox by paying Rs 2.01 each time your phone number was engaged and they were presented with an prompt in English language!
To disable the recent gift aimed at turning each engaged tone generation into a sweet little Rs 2.01 for PTCL, get yourself acquainted with the commands that manage this service. Please disable this service from your phone line and save your callers a few hundred therwise-wasted rupees a month!
Here is the complete procedure for all kinds of Call Transfers/Forwarding.
1) call Forwading Unconditional/Immediate
To activate
*21*Telephone number#To deactivate
*21#2) For Busy
To activate:
*09*Telephone number#To deactivate
*09#3) For No Reply
To activate:
*06*Telephone number#To deactivate
*06#
Credits: PTCLDude@TGP
The KMB author’s IQ is going down by the minute. We see same intellectual decline as the societies that lack freedom…may I suggest Pakistan as an example? Pretty soon everyone here will loose respect for everyone of the authors, if they haven’t already,…and then authors will have nothing but a bunch of petty comments everyday they’ll have to run after like dogs to delete…
Awab Alwi is just one such example…and now Mansoor has joined him…
Self: this is actually not a bad topic.
True, but has already been covered to death elsewhere. Anyways I am leaving this one alone :)
What are you talking about ? I m glad to have this service. I am in US and when ever I call Pakistan, if some body does not answer then I always want to leave voice message because of 12 hrs difference. If caller does not want to incur charges, he could drop after few bells and try again but please don’t tell people it is an evil. And by the way why do you bother if it costs 2 Rs to a caller. This is a caller responsibility to take care of this thing. It also tells much about Pakistani society, here 2 Rs are more important than some one else time. Do you have any idea how frustrated it is when you want to convey some message to some one and you have to keep trying till that person is home or awake. Very disappointing attitude.
The problems with the PTCL voice mail “service” are as follows:
1) It doesn’t wait for a few rings to go through. The moment your call gets connected, the answering machine thingum kicks in.
2) There’s no way you can retreive the messages left on your voice mailbox.
>>> Do you have any idea how frustrated it is when you want to convey some message to some one and you have to keep trying till that person is home or awake. Very disappointing attitude.
They have a name for it: OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder ). Get some treatment
“I am now closing the comments as I have had enough of these idiots, go bark somewhere else”
Above is quoted from a comment post that Teeth Maestro did.
Such are our authors! sheeshh
If our authors can be THAT much of an ass, why can’t PTCL :D
“I am now closing the comments as I have had enough of these idiots, go bark somewhere else”
yeah I wish awab would only bark on his own rag of a blog and not here…
TEmm bhai, I was told that ptcl still charges money for CLI service?
I would like to have SIP telephone sets rather land line.
Would like to learn network ppl like TEmm bhai itself,zee and others to tell about using Internet on SIP phones.
on a side note, topic made by TeeEmm so obviously better than previous topics. :-)
AWAB is a doctor right? If he does this to his readers, I can only wonder how he must be treating his victims…errr…. patients!
>>> can only wonder how he must be treating his victims…errr…. patients!
With a hammer on the teeth….
u know what who become dentists? Its like going into polytechnical college, when u can’t get into Engg university
@Alam
don’t be so rude to dentists if you have teeth in your mouth (bcoz u may need to see a dentist in near future), dentists have other ways of taking revenge :p
@Tariq Khanani
I am anti-dentite, and I am in favor of giving them a gas chamber. (my root canal is scheduled on this friday)
MailBoxes re activated:
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