Premium Rated Short Codes are the best way to get potential customers and clients to contact you, such as:

Lead Generation & ‘Opt in’ Lists
Add a Short Code to your marketing literature and you instantly provide an additional channel for potential customers to respond to. Build your ‘opt in’ list of people that have chosen to receive SMS messages from you on their phones.

Text 2 Win
You can run Text 2 Win competitions to either generate mobile numbers for future marketing activity or to earn revenue.

Some useful facts:

• The premium rate SMS prices cannot be chosen freely. In most cases the content provider must select a price offered by the GSM service provider.
• One premium rate phone number can run several services, but can only operate with one price.
• It is not possible to send/receive premium rated SMS messages using SIM cards of foreign countries. It means that there is no such thing as premium rate roaming.
• Premium rated SMS service cannot be operated using a GSM phone attached to the PC with a phone-to-pc data cable.
• Premium rate SMS service phone numbers are often different than normal price phone numbers. They often use a special prefix, such as 33,34.