how do you charge a cell phone bill?
Jan 22, 2010
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Mobile Credit Card Processing
i need REAL answers, not anything false. but how do you charge cellphone bills for something that the buyer bought off ur WAP site? say my site has a buyer of a ringtone, i dont want their credit card or anything, but when they txt the number of the ringtone they want to my gateway, it will then process it, and my gateway charges their cellphone bill.
any advice? or site suggestions to help me? please
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Kevin C on January 22, 2010 at 6:19 pm
You are looking for something called a short code, which they would text "something" to 1xxx43, or some 5-6 digit code… This is arranged through the Common Short Code Association.
http://www.usshortcodes.com/
This is their homepage to get information on it, and how it works:
Short codes, also known short numbers or Common Short Codes (CSC) are special telephone numbers, significantly shorter than full telephone numbers, which can be used to address SMS and MMS messages from mobile telephones. They are designed to be shorter to read out and easier to remember than a normal length telephone number. While similar to telephone numbers, they are, at the technological level, unique to each operator, although providers generally have agreements to avoid overlaps.
Short codes are widely used for value-added services such as television voting, ordering ringtones, charity donations and mobile services (such as Google’s SMS search service). Messages sent to short code numbers are generally billed at a higher rate than a standard SMS.
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* 1 Regional differences
o 1.1 Canada
o 1.2 The Netherlands
o 1.3 United Kingdom
o 1.4 United States of America
o 1.5 Czech Republic
* 2 See also
* 3 References
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Regional differences
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Canada
Codes are 5 or 6 digits in length. Codes starting with 4 are not permitted due to handset incompatibilities.
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The Netherlands
Codes are 4 digits in length.
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United Kingdom
Codes are 5 digits in length, starting with 6 or 8 (codes starting in 5 and 7 exist, but are reserved for future expansion). Individual network operators may come to an agreement with customers, allowing any number to be used - except for adult content services, which must use codes starting with 69 or 89.
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United States of America
As of May 31 2006 the standard lengths for interoperable Short Codes are 5 and 6 digits. Carriers use short codes with fewer digits for carrier specific programs - e.g., text 611 to see how many minutes you have remaining on your plan. Codes starting with 1 are not permitted.
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Czech Republic
Messages sent to/from these short codes are known as Premium Rate SMS. Codes are 7 digits in length for MO and 5 (not billed) or 8 (billed) for MT direction, starting with 9, while two or three (depending on billing type=MO/MT) trailing digits express the price, e.g. sms sent to 9090930 is billed for 30 CZK. Leading 3 digits are purpose type prefixes (908=micropayments, 909=adult content, 900=all other), digits at position 4 and 5 determinates the service provider registered by a network operator. There are also other 4digit shortcodes, used by a network operators for service only purposes (operator dependent)
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See also
* Canadian Shortcode site
* USA Shortcode site
* The Global ShortCode Directory
* US Common Short Code WHOIS Directory
* US Common Short Code Directory
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References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Short_Code
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