Bulk campaigns and API messages to Afghanistan at one published rate, the 22nd cheapest in Asia. Your name as the sender; quiet hours 09:00 to 21:00 local time. Paid in crypto, no identity checks.
At $0.0512 per segment, Afghanistan sits among the dearer routes in Asia: 22nd of 32 destinations by price, 30% above the regional average. Worldwide, 198 destinations are cheaper and 29 cost more.
Closest in price nearby: Mongolia ($0.0544), Brunei ($0.0559), Bhutan ($0.0461).
02Route notes
Market notes for Afghanistan.
Operators
Roshan
AWCC
Etisalat
MTN
The route reaches subscribers of Roshan, AWCC, Etisalat and MTN. All of them deliver alphanumeric senders as typed, so your brand name appears on the handset without registration. Each operator is monitored separately; when one degrades it shows on the status page under Routes: Asia-Pacific.
Encoding and length
Because the local alphabet is not in the GSM-7 set, messages to Afghanistan are billed in Unicode segments of 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). Codes, alerts and short confirmations fit in one.
Timing and format
Quiet hours for Afghanistan are set to 09:00 to 21:00 local, editable per campaign. Import numbers in E.164 with the +93 prefix, like +93 171 148 769; local formats are normalised when the country is known.
Delivery receipts
Afghanistan gives full handset receipts, which makes list hygiene easy: unknown numbers are flagged at the first send.
03Sender ID
How your sender appears in Afghanistan.
Alphanumeric senders of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space are delivered as typed. No registration is needed; the platform still falls back to a numeric sender if a carrier rejects the name.
Operators in Afghanistan return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
How much does an SMS to Afghanistan cost?
$0.0512 per 160-character segment, the 22nd cheapest of 32 Asia destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.1100, so ours is about 53% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
Will my sender name show in Afghanistan?
Alphanumeric senders of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space are delivered as typed. No registration is needed; the platform still falls back to a numeric sender if a carrier rejects the name.
When are marketing messages delivered in Afghanistan?
By default between 09:00 and 21:00 local time. The window is editable per campaign; codes and alerts can bypass it.
Which operators does the route cover?
All major networks: Roshan, AWCC, Etisalat and MTN. Delivery is measured per operator and the report names the one that failed when a message does not land.
How long can a message to Afghanistan be?
Messages written in the local script are Unicode, so a single segment holds 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). Latin-only text stays in GSM-7 at 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated). The composer shows which encoding applies as you type. Up to 6 parts per message.
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