Find Your Freinds Location Using MTNL Location Finder

MTNL Location Finder is a location based application from MTNL Mumbai that helps you to find the mobile location. If you are a mobile customer,  click on the “Mobile User” link . Login with your username & password and enjoy host of the services.  This service will be charged at the rate of Rs.1/- PER REQUEST.[source]

General Services

• Find Me: The “Find Me” feature helps mobile users to identify their own geographical location. FDM is the keyword for Find Me request. Syntax: Send sms FDM to 50123. The response will be a sms on the user’s mobile.
• Find Friend: The “Find Friend” feature helps the mobile user to find the geographical location of a friend. FDF is the keyword for Find Friend request. Syntax: Send sms FDF <friend’s mobile number> to 50123. If the friend has set a codeword in the settings, then the sms syntax should be, FDF < friend’s mobile number > CW <codeword> to 50123 where codeword is the codeword of the friend whose location is to be found.
• Inputting friend’s mobile number is mandatory and should be prefixed with 91.
• Inform My Friend: The “Inform My Friend” feature helps the mobile user to inform the self geographical location to a friend. IMF is the keyword for Inform My Friend request. Syntax: Send sms IMF <Friend’s mobile number> to 50123.
• Find POI: The Find POI feature helps the mobile user to find the location of a point of interest like cinema, bank, Atm etc. from the current geographical spot. FDP is the keyword for Find Point of Interest request. Syntax: Send sms FDP <poi type> <range in meters> to 50123 where poi type is the point of interest like bank, cinema, etc. and range in meters is the range for search(in Meters). This is optional; the system takes the default range as 5000 mts.

City Sight Seeing Services

City Sight seeing:[advt] The City Sight Seeing feature helps the mobile user to find a sight seeing location from the current geographical spot. CSS is the keyword for City Sight Seeing request. Syntax is sms CSS <poi type> to 50123 where the poi type is the point of interest like park, temple,museum,etc.

Navigation Services

Navigation: The Navigation feature helps the mobile user to know the route to a particular point of interest

There are 2 options under navigation:

1. NAVPT – Navigation to a particular point of interest <poi type>

2. NAVPN – Navigation to a particular point of interest name <poi name>

The syntax is Sms NAVPT <poi type> to 50123 where poi type is ATM, petrol pump, hotel etc.

Sms NAVPN <poi name> to 50123 where poi name is the name of a specific location like ICICI_bank, taj_hotel etc.