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'''Common Short Codes''' are abnormallysubscriber shortidentification numbers that are significantly shorter than full telephone numbers, and which can receivebe used to address [[Short Message Service|SMS]] and [[Multimedia Messaging System|MMS]] messages from [[mobile telephone]]s. They are designed to be shorter to read out and easier to remember than a normal length [[telephone number]]. Like phone numbers, they are unique across all supporting infrastructure providers so that they can be used to send messages between subscribers of disparate services.

Short codes are widely used for television [[voting]], ordering [[ringtone]]s, [[charity]] [[donation]]s and mobile services (such as [[Google]]'s SMS [[search]] service). Messages sent to short code numbers are generally billed at a higher rate than a standard SMS.