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YulianK
21-02-2025SMARTY Community Manager
[Announcement] BIG NEWS: You can now text shortcodes! 🎉
Yes, we heard you loud and clear—it’s been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over...SMARTY now supports shortcode messaging.
So, what’s the big deal with shortcodes?
They’...
MSF
07-07-2023SMARTY Guru
JJP2 Could that be because your service is being supplied by a local network that does support short codes?
SmartyTrousers
09-07-2023SMARTY Centurion
Smarty has always supported incoming SMS from (non premium rate) short codes - it's sending to short codes that isn't supported (although there are a few exceptions, such as texting 65075 to request a PAC).
- MSF09-07-2023SMARTY Guru
SmartyTrousers @With respect, customers are more concerned (and have complained more vociferously) about exactly that!
- SmartyTrousers09-07-2023SMARTY Centurion
I know - the point I was making was that receiving a message from a short code, as JJP2 had, has always been possible on Smarty, and was not necessarily just due to the fact that he or she was roaming.
- MSF13-07-2023SMARTY Guru
SmartyTrousers Receiving, yes but sending, no.