SMS and Common Short Codes
You use Common Short Codes every time you key in a short number to send an SMS on your mobile phone. Who knew?
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Long popular in Europe, Comon Short Codes — short strings of numbers to which text messages can be addressed — allow wireless subscribers to access applications on all participating wireless carriers’ networks , at any time.
The possibilities are endless: voting and polling, contests, surveys, direct marketing, chat, games, and the like.