New improvised Missed Call Intimation service from Vodafone India

If you are a Vodafone India subscriber you might already be aware of the MCI (Missed Call Intimation) service. Its a very cheap service priced at Rs.10 monthly, which gives you the number of any caller who tried reaching you when your Cell was switched off or outside the coverage area.

Initially when they started the service some 3-4 years back it came in a different form. For eg, if any caller tried reaching you when your Cell was unreachable, you would receive an SMS from the number 303 with some message like this..."You have 2 missed calls at 7:30 PM & 5 missed calls at 7:39 PM. To get more information send an SMS GET to 303.". After sending this SMS you could get the phone number of the caller trying to reach you. But this service costed Rs.30 monthly with addition cost of Rs.2 for sending the GET SMS.

About a year back they made a few changes to the MCI service -

• The free MCI service would provide you an intimation about a caller who tried reaching you, without any number details. And also that you could not receive this information by sending any further SMS. It is supposed to be preactivated for all subscribers.
  
• The paid MCI service would just cost you just Rs.10 monthly & would provide you initimation SMS'es like this... "You have 2 missed calls from +919812345678 at 7:30 PM.".

Until recently for both the free & paid MCI service would send you intimations from the number 303. I have recently found a very useful improvisement in the pai MCI service. For eg, if a caller tried reaching me from the number +919812345678 & could not reach me, I would receive an SMS from the number +919812345678 itself saying... "You missed a call from me at 9:40 PM.". The obvious advantage is, since the sender's number shown is the actual number & not originating from number 303, you save your time not searching for the number from your Contacts, which earlier had to be done.

Thanks to Vodafone India for bringing in such minor improvisements. Hope to see more of such interesting things in near future.