Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Trending News

Promoted
?
Lv 6
? asked in Business & FinanceSmall Business · 9 years ago

How to purchase a text (SMS) line?

I know how to start a premium voice telephone line, but cannot find any information on doing a text one.

What I wish to know please, for a business, is where the consumer texts a keyword to a short code number. For competitions or for a text chat conversation to commence.

Preferably UK-specific.

Thanks in advance.

2 Answers

Relevance
  • Robert J
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    There are masses of services.

    They register the codes with the telephone system and pass on the message to a standard mobile number.

    You can either have a unique keyword on a shared number (cheap) or a unique short code to yourself (very expensive).

    See the links for a couple of examples, or google 'text short code marketing' for others.

    Source(s): http://www.smsshortcodes.co.uk/ http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/shortcode_sms.htm
  • ?
    9 years ago

    I think that Robert is correct. If you want then you may also try for a Professional Short Code SMS Service like Web2SMS and so on. Internet Sites like Yahoo are also there to help you out in solving your query. All the very best.

    Source(s): http://www.web2sms.co.in/short_code.php
Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.