Ban MTS short numbers. What does the “Content Ban” service from MTS affect, how to activate it and how it works. MTS Content Ban service - what is it?

Surely everyone at least once in their life has found themselves in similar situation– the money on the balance sheet runs out very quickly, and where it goes is unknown. The "Content Ban" service on MTS will solve this problem as effectively as possible - what it is, how to activate or disable it, how much it costs, read this useful article.

Mobile operator subscribers often cannot understand where the money is going from their account. The most common reason for this phenomenon is connection to various services, services, entertainment portals, etc. Moreover, the subscriber cannot immediately figure out what is the reason for the constant debiting of funds. If you find unnecessary subscriptions to paid services and don’t know how to disable them, then MTS has created a service called “Content Ban” especially for such cases. The option has existed since 2012 and many of the company’s clients successfully use it.

Paid content– multimedia files (pictures, videos, ringtones), or access to entertainment portals (dating, jokes, horoscopes), the use of which is charged according to the terms of the service provider. The service can be either one-time or on a subscription basis. Often the user mobile services doesn’t even realize that he’s paying for something he doesn’t use at all.

Spam– messages, files primarily of an advertising nature. Constantly receiving this kind of content on your phone is called spamming. Spam is usually sent free of charge, but the owner of the phone may soon become very tired of messages with calls for a purchase or a visit, which will constantly be sent to the number.

Keep in mind that some spam files may contain viruses, which will be automatically installed on your phone after opening the message. Viruses pose a great threat to the phone system and can not only cause minor problems, but also completely destroy the device. In order not to risk the condition of your mobile phone, we strongly recommend that you do not open suspicious files from unknown users, but it is better to delete them immediately.

Important! The “Content Ban” service is available to all users tariff packages, except for corporate communication numbers.

This option will undoubtedly be useful for those who want complete control over their mobile expenses and be sure that money is spent only on what is actually necessary. In addition, “Content Ban” will be useful for older people and children who are not very knowledgeable about mobile phone and will not be able to disable unnecessary services on their own.

How to view your subscriptions

Attention! If no paid subscriptions If you don’t have one, you will receive an SMS message from the mobile operator MTS with the text “There are no active subscriptions” on your phone.

How is the service useful?

1. Blocks outgoing SMS messages sent to special short numbers.
2. Prohibits making outgoing calls to short numbers.
3. Disables advertising and spam.
4. Automatically disables all paid and free subscriptions to portals, services, etc.
5. Prohibits the receipt of incoming SMS to the subscriber number.

Date: 14 Feb 2018

The other day I was reviewing the new interactive game “Blitz” from MTS and, in order to play, I decided to disable the “Content Ban” service. The problem was not with this service - mine tariff plan was not eligible to participate in the game. But that’s not what upset me at all - for half an hour I couldn’t find a way to activate the “Content Ban” service back.

In this article I will tell you what “Content Ban” from MTS is, why it is needed, how much it costs and whether MTS subscribers should activate it.

MTS Content Ban service. What it is?

"Content Ban" is a service of the mobile operator MTS, which prohibits the registration of mobile subscriptions on your number (prohibition of mobile subscriptions to MTS). If you are using Mobile Internet to search for information or just like to surf the Internet, then, most likely, you have already encountered mobile subscriptions. These are nasty money eaters from your balance. Typically, subscriptions cost 20-30 rubles per day, and you can disable them in the operator’s personal account or by sending an SMS with a deactivation code. And it’s extremely easy to sign up for such a subscription – just by clicking on a WAP.

“Content ban” is a service that will not allow a mobile subscription to be issued to your number. In light of the fact that mobile subscriptions no one plans to cancel it, I consider the “Content Ban” service one of the most useful among all services and options mobile operators.

How much does the “Content Ban” service from MTS cost?

This service is free. We are talking about a service specifically for individuals, for corporate clients there is also a “Content Ban”, but that service is paid and is not of interest to us.

How to enable “Content Ban” on MTS?

If you do not have the “Content Ban” service activated, then I strongly recommend that you do so. On the official MTS website and in the operator’s personal account, this free service disappeared somewhere, but I contacted technical support MTS and one of my friends who stores all USSD requests from various operators.

You can enable MTS “Content Ban” using the USSD request *984#📞

How to disable “Content ban” on MTS?

If for some reason you want to disable the service, for example, if some service does not want to work with your number due to the fact that “the Content Ban service is activated on your number.” This can also happen... But personally I haven’t.

You can turn off MTS “Content Ban” using the USSD request *985#📞

Subscriptions to paid periodic notifications remove a significant amount from your mobile account each month. Most people do not suspect that when they send an SMS to some advertising number, they also activate subscriptions to its news, which is the reason for the lack of money in the account in the future. The “Content Ban” service from the MTS operator will help you block incoming messages and calls from service numbers, and this will help you avoid unnecessary expenses.

This feature is useful for those who unknowingly connected subscriptions or simply do not want to receive notifications and calls anymore. You can activate the service on your phone, and also help a child or elderly person who does not understand the settings and operating principles of activating advertising SMS.

Why was the “Content Ban” service created on MTS?

Have you noticed that the money in your account is quickly running out, and you don’t call anywhere? This happens if you are subscribed to many paid advertising and information updates or if scammers have reached you. If your phone is often taken by children or you are not sure that you will not mistakenly send unnecessary SMS to subscriptions or call a paid advertising phone, enable the “Content Ban” service from MTS. The function blocks all access to short service numbers, both calls and SMS sending, and will protect against unnecessary spending of money from your balance.

Using the service you can:

• Block calls to short numbers;
• Block sending SMS to them;
• Block receiving messages from them.

It is important that blocking occurs only "unnecessary" services in the future, and SMS banking and sending requests to mobile operator numbers will remain available. By blocking content, you are completely disconnected from MTS Info updates.

In the future, all attempts to send requests to short service numbers or make calls to channels or other services using these phones will be blocked. You won't have to worry about your kids or grandma accidentally withdrawing a ton of money from your phone unknowingly.


If you unsubscribe and are blocked, but they continue to send you SMS, write a complaint on the MTS category resource "Antispam". To do this, you need to forward the received SMS to MTS number 6333. The operator’s service numbers are not blocked in any case, so the message will reach. You should expect a response within 24 hours. You will receive an SMS with ways to unsubscribe from advertising.

How to activate the “Content Ban” service on MTS

To connect to the service, you go to the MTS subscriber department at the nearest address and write an application. Another way is to call MTS technical support by phone 0890. You can connect or disconnect the service only if the owner of the number is present; it is impossible to do this for him. Therefore, take your child or grandmother with you to the MTS office or be near them during the call if they require your help.

How to disable the “Content Ban” service on MTS

To disconnect, the same methods apply as for connecting - contacting the customer service department or calling 0890. Permission to make calls or send SMS may be needed if you need to make a specific request for a short number.

Today I would like to tell you about the MTS Content Ban service.

Perhaps you already have the sad experience of losing money from your account “thanks” to paid subscriptions. If you are thinking about how to protect yourself from such losses in the future, then the most reasonable solution would be MTS from your phone. This is exactly what this article will talk about, but first a few words about who these content providers are and what services they provide.

Content- this is any information that is disseminated through the media, including via the Internet. The content can be either text ( printed publications, SMS mailings, websites and WAP sites), and media. Media content includes images, music, ringtones, and video files.

Content provider(content provider, content provider) is the one who owns the content and distributes it to the audience. In the field cellular communication, the content provider sells its content to subscribers through an operator or independently.

Content services- these are services that provide subscribers with access to various content (ringtones, music, videos, games, mobile applications) or services provided based on content (dating, horoscope, exchange rates, weather, posters, jokes, etc.).

MTS Content Ban service - what is it?

The “Content Deny” option restricts the subscriber’s access to various infotainment subscriptions provided by content providers. Therefore, if you want to disable access to the services of MTS content providers, you cannot do without “Content Ban”.

How it works?

The “Content Blocking” service blocks sending SMS messages and outgoing calls to paid short numbers. At the same time, the ban on calls and SMS does not apply to internal MTS services activated by short numbers - all of them will function as before.

Why is this necessary?

Often, sending just one SMS to a short number activates a paid subscription, when the Nth amount of money is debited from the subscriber’s account daily in exchange for providing access to some Internet resource (most often of dubious content). The bill for several days of such a subscription can amount to a very large amount - up to several thousand rubles. In addition, there are telephone viruses that send SMS to short numbers without the knowledge of the phone owner. The application can send several dozen paid SMS per day, emptying your balance, or simply activate a paid subscription.

Thanks to the “Content Ban” service, sending SMS to short numbers will become impossible, and, therefore, you will not be able to become a subscriber to a paid service or lose money by paying for dozens of expensive messages.

With the “Content Ban” service, you will protect your wallet from unplanned expenses, and you will also be able to limit children’s access to paid content on sites inappropriate for their age.

How much does the MTS Content Ban service cost?

The service is provided free of charge for all MTS subscribers. The operator does not charge a fee for either connection or use of the service.

How to activate the “Content Ban” service on MTS?

The command to activate the service is ✶ 984 #.

You can also activate the “Content Ban” in your “Personal Account” on the MTS website, from your mobile phone number 0890 or 8-800-250-0890 (if you are not calling from an MTS phone) or by personally contacting the MTS service office.

How to disable “Content ban” on MTS?

You can disable the “Content Ban” on MTS yourself using the USSD command ✶ 985 #, or in your “Personal Account”.

You can also deactivate the “Content Ban” by calling the support service at 0890 and 8-800-250-0890 or at the nearest MTS office, where this service will be disabled by a customer service specialist.

When switching to a corporate tariff plan, the “Content Ban” service is disabled automatically.

Cancellation of paid content subscriptions to MTS in Russia

It's no secret that cellular operators, in common parlance OpSoS, like to connect their subscribers to various paid Additional services . In particular, expensive subscriptions on an ongoing basis that provide the consumer with extremely valuable information, for example, an astrological forecast or photos of girls in swimsuits.

Inexperienced cellular users, including children and the elderly, may one day experience unexpected reset, only a recently replenished account. And all this, thanks to charges for paid subscriptions to so-called infotainment services connected by the operator without the knowledge or explicit consent of the user.

How to deal with this scourge that looks like outright fraud in its essence. Although it is packaged legally flawed offer form about the provision of services.

Implying implicit consent, that is, if the subscriber loudly, using all the opportunities provided to him by the operator, did not declare his disagreement with receiving paid SMS mailings, then he agrees with everything and simply dreams of finding out something from the series “50 positions for making love” in a hammock."

Widespread epidemic paid subscriptions(content services generate up to 10% of operators’ revenue) forced government agencies overseeing the telecommunications industry to influence operators and take measures to reduce the amount of content arbitrariness.

And although these intentions have not fully become comprehensive and widespread, since the actions of mobile operators in the field of reducing the market content services, reminiscent of the classic “fight between bees and honey”, however, there are certain positive developments on this front.

MTS content ban - say no to paid subscriptions

One of the manifestations of these good undertakings is the introduction by MTS, which is extremely useful for subscribers free service"Content ban". On some tariffs it is enabled by default, without requiring any physical movements to activate it. Among the initial lucky ones were the tariff Smart line, as well as tariffs aimed at schoolchildren and teenagers.

Indeed, in addition to the extremely unpleasant, sudden account reset, paid mailings contain a threat distribution of erotic or frankly pornographic content to persons under 18 years of age.

Operating principle services are simple. After its activation, the subscriber’s ability to make calls and send SMS to short “content” numbers is blocked. Thus, the possibility of accidentally subscribing to paid SMS/mms mailing lists, as well as sending a message costing several hundred rubles per item or calling a short number with a similar tariff, is practically eliminated.

At the same time, the ability to send standard messages and make calls to regular numbers remains in full, but your child will no longer be able to call “phone sex”. The ban will not affect the operation of internal services of Mobile TeleSystems, which ensure uninterrupted operation of the network.

Activation of the “Content Ban” service

Unlike most other services, for which MTS offers activation in a large number in various ways, such as calling Contact Center,IVR, Personal Area in the Internet Assistant, sending SMS and USSD requests, activating the “Content Ban” service is only possible two ways:

1. Call to the Contact Center to number 0890 and activate the service by communicating with a live operator.
2. If phone call you are not satisfied you can drive up to any nearest office of the company and connect the desired service with the help of a customer service employee. Don't forget to bring your identification document with you!

Such a small selection of options for activating the Content Ban implies on the part of MTS a restriction on the “excessive” distribution of the service among “non-targeted” subscribers. But forewarned is forearmed, and now you know how you can enable such an option as banning content.

Disabling the Content Ban service

But you can disable “Content Ban” not only by calling 0890, but also using the Internet assistant. It is not at all necessary to visit a dealer or operator’s office to disable this option.

Deactivation is free and does not apply to short numbers of internal services. Why and who needs the MTS Content Ban service. To summarize the above, we can say that “Content Ban” is an extremely necessary and in demand service that should be activated for almost any subscriber.

And if the subscribers are children or teenagers, as well as elderly people, then the Content Ban service, which protects the wallets of parents and loved ones from paying for unnecessary mailings or financial fraud, must be activated without fail.

Unfortunately, the distribution of the service, its independent activation and deactivation limited for corporate numbers. In this case, the issue must be resolved with the corporation administrator. As a rule, technically, such a possibility is provided, since MTS is interested in loyalty from business users.