I was wondering if anyone know where you can buy or lease your own text message number, you know those 5 digit numbers you can send a text to with a message to recieve ringtones, wallpapers, horoscopes or whatever. Ive been looking all over and cant seem to find any info it?
i use a net based service and they do that, you have to prepay to send a text and they also supply them numbers and it has a web interface so you can hook it up to a website and reply via email or online, or have it redirected to your own phone number if you want. The IntelliSoftware SMS Gateway enables you to send and receive SMS messages from your Web browser or Email client. Our SMS Gateway service is reliable, fast, low-cost and covers almost all operators in the world. Outbound SMS can be sent from your application to mobile devices using HTTP, SMTP or COM/DotNet Component interface. IntelliSoftware also offers Virtual Dedicated Numbers for receiving inbound SMS messages. Using the SMS Gateway you can send and receive text messages in programming languages such as: ASP, VB, C++, C#, VB.Net, JScript, VBScript (via COM Component interface) and Command Line. The IntelliSoftware Premium Rate SMS Service enables you to generate revenue on delivery of SMS content. This service provides MT (Mobile Terminate) reverse billing on SMS messages to O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin, Vodafone and Three networks. Shared shortcodes are available on 25p, 50p, £1.00, £1.50, £3.00 and £5.00 tariffs. Shared shortcode are accessed by an individually allocated keyword of your choice. i guess thats what you want? this is a uk based site, but i can send sms worldwide with it. http://intellisoftware.co.uk/ not sure if the shortcode works outside the uk, but you can talk to them when you call them on a landline.