Content provider is an organization that provides information of the required type for a fee. This term can be found when faced with mobile payments and connections of all kinds of service subscriptions.
What is a content provider
Before this organization gets access to give out content to people, it coordinates all the nuances directly with the cellular operator. Money for services is debited directly from the number's account by connecting billing - a payment processing system. That is, a chain is built up of an operator, a content provider, billing and someone who helps sell these services.
Access to services means a daily subscription or a one-time write-off of funds from an account by sending an SMS to a short number. This access provides you with a username and password to enter any site, or you are sent some information to your phone in an SMS or push notification - an instant response to the screen.
The services provided can be very different from getting a horoscope or weather forecast for today to accessing a catalog of applications, music or video for your phone.
Ways of payment
Today, access to such services is possible in 4 ways: premium SMS, pseudo-subscription, MT-subscription and wap-click. The first method is the most inconvenient and involves sending the code you dialed to the specified short number of a certain cost from 3 to 300 rubles per message, a one-time fee. Pseudosubscriptions work better. To make such a payment, it is enough to send a message with any text in response to the one that came to you.
Payment is also made once. MT-subscriptions are available for 3 popular Russian operators: Megafon, MTS and Beeline and are carried out immediately on the website on the Internet. You need to enter the phone number and enter the code received in the SMS on the site. The validity period is unlimited, once in a certain period of time from 3 to 20 rubles will be debited from you.
WAP-click is a completely new access payment format, and is available only for Megafon and Beeline. If you went to the Internet from a phone or tablet, you are simply shown a button that confirms the connection. Payment is made daily if there is money on the account from 5 to 12 rubles.
It often happens that people do not know how much it costs to connect to a service. If you are asked on the Internet to enter a phone number, promising some result after that, it is better to read the cost information somewhere on the page. Usually it is at the bottom of the page and, of course, in small print.
Each content provider who has received approval from the operators values it very much, because what you pay for through the phone will certainly be useful.
