{"id":95,"date":"2013-06-19T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2015-07-03T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:09:52","slug":"short-long-code-text-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/short-long-code-text-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Text-Numbers. Long, short code &#038; shared. The Differences."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text numbers<\/strong> are the route by which you can receive text messages on your computer.\u00a0 A sender sends a message to your text number and that message is delivered to you by email or web &#8216;inbox&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here at Text-Connect our clients usually choose to use one of our standard <strong><a title=\"Text-number. Receive text messages on your computer.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.text-connect.co.uk\/options_sms-text_text-number.php\" target=\"_blank\">Text-Numbers<\/a><\/strong> which give them the following advantages:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good Value.<\/strong> A years rental costs as much as 1 months use of a shared short code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dedicated<\/strong>. All messages sent to your number are delivered to your Text-Connect account. No need for key words and your number is not shared with many other organisations so no lost or misdirected message traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good for your clients<\/strong>. Our text-numbers are UK mobile numbers so your clients or staff pay as per their normal contract to send messages. No premium fee&#8217;s and we don&#8217;t take any cut.<\/p>\n<p>Our Text-Numbers are 11 characters long. For example our company text-number is 07781472088. Sometimes these numbers are known as &#8216;Long Code&#8217; numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Other text-number types to be aware of include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long Code UK<\/strong> text numbers which are based <em>outside<\/em> of the mainland UK. Senders on some networks may pay International texting rates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dedicated Short Code<\/strong> Text Numbers. These are typically 5 digit numbers. For example the BBC text number is 61124.\u00a0 Large media organisations will use a dedicated short code number, the costs for which are usually prohibitive for small or medium sized business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shared Short Code <\/strong>Text Numbers. Typically 5 digit numbers which are shared between hundreds or thousands of organisations. Messages are routed by the sender prefixing a &#8216;Key Word&#8217; to their message. Software interprets the keyword and sends the text message as email to the correct company. Numbers are rented on a monthly basis with costs typically less than \u00a3100 per month. Please call for our pricing.<\/p>\n<p>Both short code variants can be set up as Revenue Share. The sender pays a premium rate for sending a text to the number and the revenue is shared between you and the mobile networks.<\/p>\n<p>Other generic terms used to cover Text-Numbers include &#8216;Virtual Reply Numbers&#8217; and &#8216;MSISDNs&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text numbers are the route by which you can receive text messages on your computer.\u00a0 A sender sends a message to your text number and that message is delivered to you by email or web &#8216;inbox&#8217;. Here at Text-Connect our &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/short-long-code-text-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,40,44,41,39,27,38,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}