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Re: [Announcement] BIG NEWS: You can now text shortcodes! 🎉
Hi I gather from a few other posts that these are not possible at the moment!
I found this in some information blurb from SMARTY -
" At some point you'll be able to send other kinds of messages which will be chargeable. This will include premium-rate texts and short-codes, which are used for entering competitions, buying ringtones and voting on reality TV shows, and paying for parking."
As other people say they don't indicate when this will be available! I agree with the others that it should be no problem with a decent quality service!
I too, like some other people may well be switching to another provider which doesn't have this problem!
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Finally Smarty are allowing short SMS. Just entered the 6 nations competition!
I receive txt messages following hospital appointments when they txt for me asses their service I'm unable to send my response even though the message says it is a free service Smarty does not let me reply. What must I do to fix this situation?
EileenB_2976700 Unfortunately nothing you can do because Smarty does not support the short code text system.
I suggest calling the hospital appointments office.
As of today, SMARTY now support short codes.
I think the evidence is that Smarty have no intention of providing short form text service. The fact that they no longer reply to comments is indicative that the Smarty business will simply be folded into Voxi or Vodafone once the 3 Business has been assimilated by Vodafone UK over the coming months.
AndrewT_1896481 You may well have a point there. On the other hand, the business may continue as it is - hard to tell at the minute. If that were the case, then Voda/Voxi or whatever would need to consider changing things for over a million customers suddenly.
I think the system and product change freeze with the short code texts tells you just how it's going to go. But let's watch this space. 😁
