>I searched Google for a definition of the term, "Short Code
>>concatenated messages" but could only find references to the service
>>issue mentioned in the Sun, 21 Apr 2019 Telecom Digest.
>
>Short Code SMS messages are premium numbers, shorter than the normal
>10 digit phone numbers, that you can SMS a text message to; like
>"text 12345 to give $5 now to blah blah blah."
>
>The Wikipedia article on SMS has a section devoted to them (under
>Premium-rated short messages).
>
>The 'Concatenated SMS' part is as you suspect.
>
>I'm sure its only an outage notice out because companies pay for this
>service above what the unwashed masses do.
Not all services support short codes.
I am currently using Callcentric. They do not officially support them. They clearly stated this when they started offering the service.
But I found that while I could not send messages to short codes, I did receive a number of messages from them over Callcentric SMS services.
That is a good thing since a lot of Web sites (especially financial sites) are using two factor authentication for security. The text messages they send for this purpose come from short codes.
Example: When logging onto a Web site, they text a message that gives you an authentication code to enter on the Web site to complete your log in. They send you this after entering your user name and password [so you can enter it into a subsequent login prompt on your Web site]. Most of you have experienced this.
When I previously tried to send messages to short codes, they would bounce.
But I just tried tweeting one to [short code removed - bh]. It actually replied to me. So perhaps they've since implemented it and not said anything about it.
Regards,
Fred
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