Middle East
SMS to United Arab EmiratesOne rate for United Arab Emirates, $0.0074, from the first message to the millionth. Unicode segments for the local script, registered name or shared sender, handset receipts. Funded in crypto, without identity checks.
01Rate
At $0.0074 per segment, United Arab Emirates sits among the cheaper routes in Middle East: 2nd of 15 destinations by price, 80% below the regional average. Worldwide, 8 destinations are cheaper and 219 cost more.
02Route notes
The route reaches subscribers of Etisalat by e& and du. They deliver alphanumeric senders only after registration; until then your messages leave from a shared numeric sender, and support prepares the registration file with you. Each operator is monitored separately; when one degrades it shows on the status page under Routes: Middle East & Africa.
Expect Unicode encoding for United Arab Emirates: 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated) per part rather than 160. Long confirmations are still fine, they simply use more segments, and the cost preview reflects it.
The default delivery window for United Arab Emirates runs from 07:00 to 21:00, local time; schedule by local hour and the campaign opens when United Arab Emirates does. International format uses +971: +971 527 018 710.
United Arab Emirates gives full handset receipts, which makes list hygiene easy: unknown numbers are flagged at the first send.
03Sender ID
Registration comes first in this destination: an unregistered brand name is swapped for a shared numeric sender so the message still lands, and your registered name takes over once the operators approve it.
Registration required
Sender types explained Sender ID rule of every country, in one tableUnited Arab Emiratesregistered name or shared sender04At a glance
05Nearby
06Questions, answered
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
$74.00 at $0.0074 per segment, the same unit price as for one message or one million. At the lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track, the same send would cost about $160.00.
Registration comes first in this destination: an unregistered brand name is swapped for a shared numeric sender so the message still lands, and your registered name takes over once the operators approve it.
Yes: marketing traffic is held outside 07:00 to 21:00 local time by default. Transactional messages can bypass the window, and the default is editable per campaign.
Expect Unicode encoding for United Arab Emirates: 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated) per part rather than 160. Long confirmations are still fine, they simply use more segments, and the cost preview reflects it.
Etisalat by e& and du, with delivery rate and receipt behaviour measured for each.
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