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mauricio bendeck New member Username: Mauriceab Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2006 |
We are nearing the end of our evaluation of NowSMS (thus far great experience!), but now we are in a technical uncertainty that could affect our business. Below is a description of our question: We would like to know if we could assign alias shortcodes such that there is a fixed or master shortcode belonging to Permita (our company) followed by an extension of that shortcode (for our clients - we have 700+) - see example below: 123456789: first six positions is Permita's shortcode, with next three positions (789) to the client. Each client will be assinged an alias number (e.g. 789, 790, 791...) We have 700+ clients where we do not want to purchase 700 shortcodes. Any thoughts? Thanks, | |||
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 6457 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi, You'd have to ask this question of your SMS service provider or mobile operator. What you are suggesting would seem to make sense, but I can't say that I recall ever seeing this type of offering before. The Nokia CIMD2 protocol does have a concept like this, where there can be an account prefix, and then you have different shortcode numbers beneath that prefix. Nokia SMSCs are fairly uncommon outside of Scandanavia. The best I can suggest is to ask your provider or mobile operator. This would indeed be extremely useful ... but I haven't encountered such a setup being available anywhere yet. If you are working directly with a mobile operator, I would think there is a better chance that they might be able to support such a configuration. However, if you need to have cross operator short codes, I would be less optimistic. -bn |