I thought this piece of info would be useful to you all, in-case you have not got hold of these till now:
Service Provider | Code | Service Area | Code |
Aircel, Dishnet Wireless | D | Andhra Pradesh | A |
Bharti Airtel | A | Assam | S |
BSNL | B | Bihar | B |
BPL Mobile/Loop Telecom | L | Delhi | D |
Datacom Solutions | C | Gujarat | G |
HFCL Infotel | H | Haryana | H |
Idea Cellular | I | Himachal Pradesh | I |
MTNL | M | Jammu & Kashmir | J |
Reliance Communications | R | Karnataka | X |
Reliance Telecom | E | Kerala | L |
S tel | S | Kolkata | K |
Shyam Telecom | Y | Madhya Pradesh | Y |
Spice Telecom | P | Maharashtra | Z |
Swan Telecom | W | Mumbai | M |
Tata Teleservices | T | North East | N |
Unitech Group | U | Orissa | O |
Vodafone Group | V | Punjab | P |
Rajasthan | R | ||
Tamil Nadu | T | ||
UP-East | E | ||
UP-West | W | ||
West Bengal | V |
So, combination of these two constitutes the first two digit of “Sender” followed by an hyphen (-) & actual sender name.