Africa
SMS to EgyptOne rate for Egypt, $0.0605, 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
Egypt is the 52nd cheapest of the 56 Africa destinations we serve. Its $0.0605 rate is 99% above the average for the region, and only 205 of our 228 destinations are priced lower.
02Route notes
Recipients in Egypt are on Vodafone, Orange, Etisalat by e& and WE. 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. We keep one route for the destination and swap it when an operator's delivery rate drops, without changing your rate mid-campaign.
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.
Marketing campaigns are held outside 08:00 to 20:00 local time by default. Transactional messages such as codes and receipts bypass the window. Numbers are dialled with +20, for example +20 071 855 665.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
03Sender ID
Operators here require alphanumeric senders to be registered before they deliver them. While the registration is pending, messages go out from a shared numeric sender; once approved, your name is used. Support handles the file with you.
Registration required
Sender types explained Sender ID rule of every country, in one tableEgyptregistered name or shared sender04At a glance
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06Questions, answered
Operators here require alphanumeric senders to be registered before they deliver them. While the registration is pending, messages go out from a shared numeric sender; once approved, your name is used. Support handles the file with you.
Yes: marketing traffic is held outside 08:00 to 20:00 local time by default. Transactional messages can bypass the window, and the default is editable per campaign.
Expect Unicode encoding for Egypt: 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.
Vodafone, Orange, Etisalat by e& and WE, with delivery rate and receipt behaviour measured for each.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
$605.00 at $0.0605 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 $1,300.00.
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