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realone1128



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:17 pm    Post subject: Text Messaging numbers Reply with quote

How are these various company's aquiring these 5 to 6 digit text messaging numbers? For example, Z100 (a local NY radio station) says to text message all the requests to 55100. Can somebody please tell me how these are acquired?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These unique numbers are assigned by the wireless carrier as a marketing tool.



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="OzCom"]These unique numbers are assigned by the wireless carrier as a marketing tool.[/quote]

So, companies get these numbers from the wireless carriers, but then is there software to receive the incoming messages, or are these messages sent to someones phone?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends on your endpoint goal - in the case of your radio station example - I'll bet that when a listener text messages a request to the advertised number - it gets translated and emailed to the station - or they pick it up via a web connection with database import - the sky is the limit.



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