Premium Rate SMS

Premium Rate Reverse Billing SMS Marketing and Promotions

Premium rate SMS provides flexibility for marketing via media from magazines and TV through to on-pack promotional campaigns.

With charges being reverse billed to the consumer's mobile account, premium SMS is an ideal vehicle for self funded or even revenue generating promotional campaigns. We offer a range of short codes at multiple price points from 25p to £5 on shared or unique codes.

Premium Rate SMS Applications:

SMS Competitions

On-pack competitions are an ideal way to promote a new or updated product. The consumer sends a displayed keyword into the associated short code for a chance to win the prize. Their mobile phone bill is then charged at the advertised tariff. For example 'SMS XGAME to 82200 for a chance to win the new X-game from...'

SMS Text Chat

Text Chat services are widely used by the dating and adult industries. With subscribers chatting anonymously via SMS text messages set at a short code price point, text chat services can produce significant income streams. Our innovative service includes a mechanism for originator number spoofing which enables subscribers to exchange messages with many contacts as if they had a mobile number for each contact.

We provide the mechanism for some of the UK's largest Text Chat services.

SMS Subscription

SMS Subscription services can be highly profitable as subscribers sign up for a service that sends a new SMS text message each day, for example such as a daily horoscope, until they choose to unsubscribe. SMS-Messaging can set up a SMS Subscription service where you control the content and the frequency of delivery.

SMS Voting

SMS Voting is a useful research tool and can be integrated into a marketing campaign. Voting via SMS provides the opportunity to obtain peoples' opinions and generate revenue simultaneously without resorting to forms and questionnaires.

SMS Auction

An SMS Auction can be run via TV or magazine promotion where contestants can win a prize by texting in the highest bid. A Reverse SMS Auction awards the prize to the contestant who texted in the lowest unique bid. SMS-Messaging detects when a contestant has been outbid and sends a 'You've been outbid' SMS encouraging a higher bid.

SMS and MMS Content

SMS and MMS Content including ringtones, pictures, videos, audio and slide shows can be delivered to mobiles when a consumer texts the order code or name. The content is delivered via WAP push (an encoded message which includes a link to a WAP address) or as an MMS message. Consumers can either be billed when they request content, or on a subscription basis where subscribers are billed and credited a fixed amount, for example £5/week.