Africa
SMS to EthiopiaReach Ethio Telecom and Safaricom subscribers in Ethiopia at $0.1010 per message, around the regional average. Registered name or shared sender. No KYC, no contract.
01Rate
At $0.1010 per segment, Ethiopia sits among the dearer routes in Africa: 56th of 56 destinations by price, 232% above the regional average. Worldwide, 225 destinations are cheaper and 2 cost more.
02Route notes
Traffic to Ethiopia terminates on Ethio Telecom and Safaricom. 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. Delivery rates and receipt behaviour are measured per operator, and the report names the reason whenever one of them rejects a message.
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.
Quiet hours for Ethiopia are set to 08:00 to 20:00 local, editable per campaign. Import numbers in E.164 with the +251 prefix, like +251 837 536 340; local formats are normalised when the country is known.
Operators in Ethiopia return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
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 tableEthiopiaregistered name or shared sender04At a glance
05Nearby
06Questions, answered
$1,010.00 at $0.1010 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 $2,170.00.
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 Ethiopia: 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.
Ethio Telecom and Safaricom, 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.
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