Virtual SMS Numbers / MSISDN

For many business applications, having a virtual, dedicated SMS number is required. These cases are important for business/corporate users who want to collect information from their partners, employees or customers. The traditional option is to use Short Codes. Unfortunately, Short Codes are expensive, take months to setup and are country specific. Many of our customers are looking for a solution that will allow them to receive incoming SMS messages but are not prepared to spend thousands of dollars each month and wait 3-4 months just to get started.

For this reason, Upside developed a unique solution called Virtual SMS. This solution provides a dedicated SMS number with about 90% of functionality available with Short Codes, but at about 10% of the cost. Also, they are available almost instantly. We can setup this low cost alternative to short codes within a day. Click here to see how it works.

The applications are limitless. Some of them include:

• Non Premium SMS campaigns - Perfect for prototyping, beta launches or initial production services, Virtual SMS can be setup within a day at a cost that is 5-10 times lower comparing to having a short code.
  
• Pooling - publish your dedicated number and collect opinion from your customers. See how a global radio station uses a private virtual SMS number to communicate with over 2 billion people around the world.



• Marketing - through implementing giveaways and contests, you receive consent from customers to send them SMS advertising.



• Medical trials (clinical trials) - you can ask members of the panel to SMS their results to your dedicated SMS number. The collected information goes straight into your database, inducing ultimate efficiency.



• Call-back long distance - publish your virtual SMS number overseas. Your customers can send a number of the person in the USA that they want to talk to through your virtual SMS number. The number of the sender and the number of the other party are then sent to your application and a voice call is established at a low international tariff between those two numbers.

We sell virtual SMS numbers in many countries. US, Canadian, UK Virtual SMS numbers are available within 24 hours. Please contact us if you need a Virtual SMS number in another country.

To learn more about the technology behind Virtual SMS numbers please go to our Mobile Messaging Concentrator (MMC) page.