How Do You Store Your India Numbers
June 3rd, 2009
I’m in Bangalore with our mobile developers right now. A design question came up and we need your help. We are working on a mobile app which will auto dial international numbers stored in your contact/address book. The app will let you select a phone number in your book, then call it through the IndiaLD gateway without any need to dial the access number, enter a PIN, or enter the destination number.
How do you guys store international/Indian phone numbers in your address book as it relates to the country code?
+91 (then number)
011 91 (then number)
91 (the number)
Or some other way? Post a comment and let us know. It will help us get this out quicker. The Windows version will be coming first in hopefully a couple weeks.
by Chris@IndiaLD
When we receive the call from india, it will be logged as +91xxxxxxxxxx
I would prefer that.
Thank you.
Hi Chris:
the correct one is 011 91 (then number)
i hope it helps.
Rajesh
In my mobile phone most of my india contact numbers are stored as starting with +91 as well as other international numbers as +(ISD Code)
We usually store like +91(number) or 91(nummber)..
We never store like 01191(number)
HI Chris, So you are with developers in Bangalore. So any updates on buying minutes or larger plans?? or may be unlimited plan?
Hi Chris:
the correct one is 011 91 (then number)
i hope it helps.
Rajesh
We store it +91(number) which is the standard format. Using this SMS can also be sent out directly
Hi Chirs – I agree to Gautam. I have noticed that whenever I get a call from India, it shows as +91(number). While using IndiaLD, I dial 91(number). So, there should be a provision for both.
+91(number). Which platforms app will support?
Are you guys going to add more Access number in India? Specifically I am looking for number in Gujarat.
My bad i didn’t read full comment about platform. It would be great to have it on symbian as it covers Nokia, Samsung and Motorola.
I used to store like 91(number)
Thanks for all the info guys. This will help us out a lot.
@Gautam The buying minutes work is being done with our billing guy in the States. We should have it out this month provided we don’t run into any snags.
As far as devices, we are doing Windows ME first. After that we need to decide on Blackberry, Iphone, and Symbian.
In terms of bigger plans, we can create a 4000 and 5000 minute plan that would be available on request to existing customers.
Hi Chris
+91(98115XXXXX) best way as I am from UK and i don’t used 01191 like the one people wud use in USA
Cheers
Hey Chris,
Not the right place but i thought of giving a shot..
I am trying to save UK nos for pinless dial (i am using the service from London) .. it doesn’t seem to work.. wats the right way to save
Cheers
I prefer +91(then number)
91 (number) and +91 (number).
Big catch here is +91 can be stored when it comes as a called ID. Some old phone models don’t allow you to add characters like + to the contact number. (eg my razr) But they don’t mind when it is received as a called ID. Funny.
Hi Chris,
Frankly I think you should allow at least 2 methods +91 and 011 91.
I think phones also allow you to specify what country your in so that the phone will know if a country code is needed.
Jim
Hi,
The BEST way to store nos. (As I do in my cell) is :
9492599999pp1p91XXXXXXXX
where ‘p’ is ‘pause. U can get this on any handset by pressing ‘*’ key long. Now, If I type/dial whole of this string then:
1. It first dials 949259999, which is IndiaLD gateway
2. Then after ’some’ pause, its sends ‘1′: means “dial a no.” in IndiaLD main menu
3. It finally sends 91XXXX and there u go!!!
I have saved all nos, who belong to my contacts in india, in the way described.
In a way, I am able to ’somewhat’ achieve the goal WITHOUT using any special “applet” etc.
@Vivek
That’s awesome dude! I never thought of that. Thanks a lot for sharing the tip. Makes life so much simpler =)
Also when a call frm India comes, it comes with +91(10digit mobile #) or 1(10digit mob#). This applies for US numbers only.
Appropriate would be +91-[city code]-NUMBER…..
@Sasi.. Did it work with you?? I mean adding ‘p-> pauses’ in between nos. while saving/dialing?
Did any else also liked the idea or facing any issues while trying to use this way?
When receiving call from an India number, both while in India locally on in the US, the caller shows the Indian numbers with +91 prefix. If calling directly from a mobile, some providers might expect to have 01191 prefixed, forcing subscribers to have their contacts setup this way.
I guess to make it work, you app should probably strip out
+91
01191 and use the rest.
I wonder if people use some other prefix?
Thanks,
Senthil
@Vivek
Well, most phones if not all, allow you to store more than 10 numbers, usually up to 30 numbers. With pauses represented by either p or , . This feature exits in the US for quite some time since people were using calling cards locally in the US.
So, consult with your manual. Even all the land line phones have this feature. I haven’t seen a phone without it.
hey r u gonna make an iphone app??? that would be really great…..
and btw i store the no. as 91XXXXX….cause if i store the no. as 01191…and by mistake dial the no. AT&T is gonna bill me for international call…..