A system and method for enabling a user to request and receive product
information, participate in voting or polling activities, reprint an
article or other publication, request and authorize a purchase of a
magazine subscription, music sound clip, or other product, and/or share
personal information with other users. The service request and
information delivery may provided over a mobile phone. The user dials a
series of digits into their phone and enters them into the disclosed
system, for example by pressing the send key on a mobile phone. The
digits entered by the user include a prefix or routing code, and a data
code. The dialed digits are transferred to a call switching system, which
determines, based on the prefix code, a processing system to which a
message is sent including the originally dialed digits as well as
identification of the user or phone that placed the call. The processing
system may then determine, based on the identification of the mobile
phone that placed the call, a user account. The processing system further
determines, based on the data code of the dialed digits, the product
information or other service such as entry of a polling response, vote,
or product purchase, that is to be provided. The user account information
may then be used to determine a delivery technique, such as electronic
mail using an electronic mail address associated with the phone that made
the call, SMS/MMS/EMS Text messaging, or WAP push, through which the
product information associated with the data code may be forwarded to the
requesting user.