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Call forwarding. Barring of Outgoing Calls. Barring of Incoming Calls. Advice of Charge (AoC). This GSM service estimates the call cost for display on the user's mobile phone. [1] This helps users by preventing bill shock [2] and reduces the load on the mobile network operator's customer service department. However, in practice, this GSM ...
ETSI and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards, such as GSM and LTE, define supplementary service codes that make it possible to query and set certain service parameters (e.g., call forwarding) directly from mobile devices.
Fixed Dialing Number (FDN) is a service mode of a GSM mobile phone's SIM card. [1] Numbers are added to the FDN list, and when activated, FDN restricts outgoing calls to only those numbers listed, or to numbers with certain prefixes. [1] A notable exception is that emergency calls to 000, 112, 911, 999 and the like are exempt. [2]
USSD on a Sony Ericsson mobile phone (2005). Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), sometimes referred to as "quick codes" or "feature codes", is a communications protocol used by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with the mobile network operator's computers.
[1] [2] Such devices and services enable the user to block a call as it is in progress or alternatively block the number after the call is made. These devices rely on caller ID information and thus a phone blocker requires a caller ID service active on the line for blocking to function. Treatment of blocked calls may include:
The MSC sets up and releases the end-to-end connection, handles mobility and hand-over requirements during the call and takes care of charging and real-time prepaid account monitoring. In the GSM mobile phone system, in contrast with earlier analogue services, fax and data information is sent digitally encoded directly to the MSC.
If Caller ID is subscribed to or enabled on the line receiving the call, the unblocked phone number and registered name is displayed – unable to determine that the caller subscribes to outgoing callerID blocking or that *82 has been dialed to temporarily override that subscription. *82 can be dialed from U.S. land-line house phones and ...
[1]: §21.1.2 181 Call is Being Forwarded Servers can optionally send this response to indicate a call is being forwarded. [1]: §21.1.3 182 Queued Indicates that the destination was temporarily unavailable, so the server has queued the call until the destination is available. A server may send multiple 182 responses to update progress of the ...