common short code

CSCs are used for additional wireless services like television voting, polling, ordering ringtones, making donations and queries to Google's SMS search engine. CSCs are typically billed at a higher rate than SMS or MMS messages.

Although CSCs have been popular in Europe for years, they only gained wide-spread adoption in the United States after their use as a voting method on the immensely popular "American Idol" television show. Cross-carrier CSCs were launched in the United States in 2003.

A similar but unrelated term, shortcode, refers to a pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems used on BINAC and UNIVAC.

Read more about common short code: - iLoop Mobile offers this academic review of CSCs as a downloadable PDF, "Understanding the Common Short Code : Its Use, Administration, and Tactical Elements." - U.S. Wireless Carriers Debut Universal Short Codes - You can find many common short codes in the US Common Short Code WHOIS Directory. - In 2006, John Edwards became the first presidential candidate to use a common short code in his campaign.

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