Short Code SMS
What is Premium Rate or Short Code SMS?
Short Code SMS services are premium rate services and cost more
than standard text rates. The services are advertised on
television, in magazines and newspapers and allow mobile users to
send and receive SMS messages to and from information and content
providers.
Some of the services will charge a premium over ordinary text
messages when you send a message to the short code, for example a
voting line. Other services will charge you to receive a text
message, for example, news headlines, weather reports or
horoscopes. These are known as subscription services.
What Short Codes are available?
The table below lists the Short Code SMS numbers and their
charges that are available from your Manx Telecom mobile.
| Short Code |
Sending Charge |
Receiving Charge |
Content Provider |
| 118118 |
£0.10 |
£1.00 |
Various |
| 118275 |
£0.10 |
£0.35 |
Various |
| 118888 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 50194 |
£0.00 |
£0.25 |
Telesolutions Ltd |
| 60002 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 60024 |
£0.10 |
£0.00 |
BBC |
| 60777 |
£0.10 |
£0.75 |
Text You |
| 61114 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 61700 |
£0.20 |
£0.10 |
Sponge Ltd |
| 61759 |
£0.10 |
£0.25 |
Flytxt |
| 62000 |
£0.20 |
£1.50 |
BBC |
| 62222 |
£0.10 |
£0.00 |
BBC |
| 62223 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 62277 |
£0.10 |
£0.00 |
BBC |
| 63399 |
£0.25 |
£1.00 |
BBC |
| 64046 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 64477 |
£0.10 |
£0.25 |
Various |
| 65006 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Incentivated |
| 65125 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 66550 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 66602 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 66655 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 66656 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 66662 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 66665 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 66670 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 68680 |
£0.20 |
£0.25 |
Various |
| 69080 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 69155 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
BBC |
| 78444 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 80035 |
£0.20 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 80144 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 80151 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 80252 |
£0.20 |
£0.25 |
Various |
| 80295 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 81010 |
£0.25 |
£1.00 |
BBC |
| 81111 |
£0.10 |
£0.10 |
BBC |
| 81199 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 81222 |
£0.10 |
£0.00 |
Various |
| 81771 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 81869 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 82002 |
£0.10 |
£0.10 |
BBC |
| 82055 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 82100 |
£0.10 |
£0.25 |
Sponge Ltd |
| 82222 |
£0.10 |
£0.25 |
Various |
| 82232 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 82237 |
£0.10 |
£0.00 |
BBC |
| 82344 |
£0.10 |
£2.50 |
Various |
| 82772 |
£0.10 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 83080 |
£0.10 |
£0.25 |
Various |
| 83111 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 83199 |
£0.10 |
£0.10 |
BBC |
| 83222 |
£0.10 |
£0.50 |
Various |
| 83340 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 83981 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 84040 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 84222 |
£0.10 |
£1.00 |
Various |
| 84410 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 84747 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
BBC |
| 84844 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 85040 |
£0.20 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 85058 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 85101 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 85185 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 85222 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 85558 |
£0.10 |
£0.10 |
Trust 5 |
| 85560 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 85570 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 85800 |
£0.10 |
£0.10 |
Sponge Ltd |
| 85888 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Sponge Ltd |
| 86222 |
£0.10 |
£0.10 |
Various |
| 87080 |
£0.10 |
£0.50 |
Various |
| 87222 |
£0.10 |
£0.25 |
Various |
| 88080 |
£0.10 |
£1.00 |
Various |
| 88111 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 88291 |
£0.10 |
£0.15 |
BBC |
| 88600 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 88787 |
£0.20 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 88822 |
£0.20 |
£0.10 |
BBC |
| 88850 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 88858 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 88860 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 88870 |
£0.20 |
£3.00 |
Various |
| 89080 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 89944 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
| 89995 |
£0.10 |
£1.50 |
Various |
Prices include 17.5% VAT
* Shared codes are used by various companies for competitions,
voting and information services
Manx Telecom is working with our service providers to open
additional short code numbers. If there is a number that you would
like to be able access from your Manx Telecom mobile then please
let us know.
Cancelling a Premium Rate SMS Service
If you would like to unsubscribe from a premium rate message
service then please check the content of the message for
information about how to cancel further messages from being sent to
your mobile. If this is not available then please reply to the
message and text ‘STOP’; this is an industry agreed command and the
content provider should cease on receiving this instruction.
Complaints about Premium Rate SMS Services
Premium rate services including their promotion are supervised
by PhonepayPlus. If you have a complaint about a premium rate
service or its content then you should contact PhonepayPlus. You
can find contact details here on our website.
Contact
If you would like to submit a request to access a short code
SMS, please contact
Products and Tariffs (Open Monday to Friday 09:00 to
17:00)
Manx Telecom Ltd
Isle of Man Business Park
Cooil Road
Braddan
Isle of Man
IM99 1HX
or telephone 44(1)624 624624
Alternatively you can submit a request to access a Short Code SMS number
here.