Dicta SMS is a service that Vodafone offers to its customers. Basically, it consists of converting an incoming voice call into an SMS message that the user receives. An alternative to the answering machine that can be quite comfortable, but it has a big drawback. Vodafone charges 30 cents to the customer who has made the call (plus the cost of the call itself if there is no flat rate). If you have this service and you do not want to provoke any other anger among your friends or family, we will tell you how to deactivate the Vodafone SMS service in a few steps.
There are two main ways to deactivate the Dicta SMS service from Vodafone. The most common of them today is through the web platform, although you can also directly use the phone with a specific code. In case of opting for the first option, the procedures are carried out through "My Vodafone". In the box on the left under the label "Hello" we enter our username and password (the password is a four-digit PIN code) and then click on the "Enter" button.
Once inside, under "Contracted Products" on the left we will see a list of the mobile lines we have with Vodafone. We select the one for which we are going to configure the Dicta SMS service. At the top of the screen there are a series of tabs with the different menus that the mobile configuration has. The one that interests us is the one that says "Options and configuration". Within the options submenu we have “Restrictions of your line”, “Answering machine”, “Consumption control” and finally “Advanced services”. We click on the latter and open the first drop-down with the title "Call options".
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Here we find a series of options that can be more or less useful. Among them is the Dicta SMS service . If we see that this service is marked in the box with a tick, we must deselect it and then click on “Save changes”. In this way, we can get rid of this feature that can annoy our friends a lot. By the way, it must be taken into account that Dicta SMS only works on calls we receive from customers who share an operator (which are from Vodafone). At any time we can return to this configuration to activate the service by selecting the option and saving the changes again.
We summarize the steps to follow:
My Vodafone â † 'Contracted products â †' Choose desired mobile line â † 'Options and configuration â †' Advanced services â † 'Call options â †' Deactivate Dicta SMS
In case we prefer to deactivate this service directly with the mobile without having to dive through the web, there are several codes that are used to configure this function. To deactivate the Vodafone Dicta SMS service we have to enter the following combination "# 203 * 1 #" without the quotes and then press on the call button. To reactivate the function, use the code "* 203 * 1 #" also without the quotation marks.
