Gone are the days when basic telephones was used only to make and receive calls. With the aid of state-of-the-art digital exchanges, BSNL offers you a host of phone plus services, converting your old basic telephones to a sophisticated tool which can be used for a variety of applications.
All the Phone Plus facilities are available  free of cost with effect from January 22nd, 2003.

This facility lets you receive incoming calls even when your telephone is busy. You will get a short duration pip-pip tone when you are busy talking , indicating that another call is waiting for you , provided you have activated this facility. You can talk to any one of the callers keeping the other waiting. Complete secrecy of communication between the two callers is maintained.

Procedure for activation/deactivation:

You may be calling a few people very frequently. It is possible to program these numbers as abbreviated codes of 1 or 2 digits. A maximum of 20 numbers can be programmed for abbreviated dialing. It is ideal for STD/ISD.

Procedure:

Step1	Select your short code	Choose a short code for the number you dial frequently e.g. '15' for the number  xxxxxx. (if it's std no. std code+xxxxxx)
Step 2	Register short code for a telephone no.	On your telephone dial 110 then the short code followed by the subscriber's number  i.e. dial 110 15 xxxxxx. You will shortly here an acceptance tone indicating that your code is registered.
Step 3	To dial the number using abbreviated code	Dial 111 then the short code to dial the number i.e dial 111 15 this will dial xxxxxx.
To cancel or re-allot the same number		dial 110 15 yyyyyy (new tel. no) this will store code 15 for new number yyyyyy overwriting the earlier no. xxxxxx.

You may want to be connected directly to a pre-determined number as soon as you lift the hand set even without dialing. At the same time you may want to have the flexibility to dial any other number of your choice. It is possible to have this facility in the digital exchanges by the delayed hotline feature. The number of your choice can be programmed by the exchange staff at your request. After doing so if you lift the telephone and do not dial within 5 seconds , you will be automatically connected to the programmed number. However if you start dialing with in 5 seconds , you can make an outgoing call as usual.

Useful for very mobile persons who may not want to miss incoming calls. Using this facility Calls can be forwarded to another telephone number designated by you.

Procedure for activation/deactivation:

When you want to be given reminder at a specific time, all you have to do is to call the exchange and leave the time you want to be reminded. The facility allows you to initiate a call automatically by the exchange at a fixed time specified by the user of the telephone.
 

	Dial 116 (the registration code) followed by the time you wish to be reminded or worken-up at 06.15am(06.15hrs), you will dial 1160615.
	Dial 117 (the cancellation code) followed by the time you booked the call.