Sounds like SMS short codes, right? But there's a big difference: to get data from the Zoove service, you dial your phone. That is you press a code, like "**coke," then the Talk key. It's just ...

Well, a similar scramble is now under way to get SMS “short-codes,” which are shorter in length and easier to remember for mobile-phone users, as compared to the full-length phone number.

This would bring the cost of short codes down and get businesses up and running in the same day. Do you not think SMS marketing would at least double in size?

How short code text messages can be safer than texts from regular phone numbers By Matt Gephardt, KSL-TV | Posted - June 8, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

Ken Colburn from the Data Doctors lays out the best ways to protect yourself from falling victim to an SMS scam, starting with how to recognize one.

Students this month may be voting on a referendum calling for the purchase of a university SMS code to facilitate communication and information dissemination on the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus.