System for schools managing SMS credits using mobile reverse charge technology

A method of billing or charging a receiver for a mobile communication being a message, the method including the steps of:

• a receiver electing to receive a message from a telecommunications carrier;
• an at least one first party collating information on a subject, wherein the subject is a student, and constructing a message based on the collated information, the first party having a credit pool, and wherein the receiver is related to the subject;
• determining a status of the credit pool of the first party;
• determining a status of the receiver according to pre-set schedule;
• adding or subtracting a credit to the credit pool in accordance to the status of the receiver
• the first party forwarding the message to a premium Short Message Service (SMS) aggregator to aggregate messages;
• the premium SMS aggregator submitting aggregated messages to a telecommunications carrier;
• forwarding of the messages to the receiver by the telecommunications carriers network;
• the telecommunications carrier registering a charge against the receiver of the messages in relation to a pre-set scale;
• the receiver paying the charge direct to the telecommunications carrier;
• the telecommunications carrier aggregates a revenue share based on messages sent to receivers;
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• paying a percentage of the revenue share to the premium SMS aggregator.