What are Premium SMS and MMS?
SMS & MMS Premium services are micro-payment services by SMS. These services allow you to receive information (e.g. finance, sports, news, etc.) and download ringtones, logos and games to your mobile phone via SMS & MMS.
They are usually more expensive than standard SMS and MMS messages.
Premium SMS & MMS services allow you to purchase or subscribe to various services or digital content on a per-use basis using a short 3 to 5 digit number.
- on a per-use basis: you send a keyword to a premium SMS number and in return, the publisher delivers the requested service or content
- by subscription: you send a keyword to a premium SMS number. You then receive a subscription confirmation request to which you reply OK. Once you have
subscribed, you will receive your content regularly.
These purchases appear on your mobile invoice or are deducted from your credit for prepaid cards.
Many SMS and MMS content providers distribute their products on the Orange mobile network using their own brands. By contract, Orange allows the
distribution of these products and their billing to its customers.
For these third party value-added services, Orange only acts as an intermediary by providing the network connection and billing.