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ALLedgedly free SMS shortcodes

stevelikessaving · 2005-05-23 14:59:56

Ok the moan is this Radio 1,2,3, etc have short code text numbers like 88291 for radio 2 ( Martin are you watching this.....! ) they claim they cost the same as normal text numbers ( eg your full mobile number ) however they show as premium rate text band 1 and charge you at standard text rate.... SEEMS fair so…

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thefirs Posts: 705 Forumite

30 January 2006 at 4:16PM

We visited this subject in the first part of last year, and I'm glad it's getting another airing. As I said then, there seem to be a lot of parallels with inclusive voice minutes packages excluding non-geographical numbers, and the same has effectively happened with the short-code texts.

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