Middle East
SMS to IraqReach Zain, Asiacell and Korek subscribers in Iraq at $0.0368 per message, 1% below the regional average. Registered name or shared sender. No KYC, no contract.
01Rate
At $0.0368 per segment, Iraq sits among the dearer routes in Middle East: 10th of 15 destinations by price, 1% below the regional average. Worldwide, 176 destinations are cheaper and 51 cost more.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $36.80 | $79.00 |
| 10,000 | $368.00 | $790.00 |
| 100,000 | $3,680.00 | $7,900.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $36,800.00 | $79,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Jordan ($0.0372), Iran ($0.0349), Saudi Arabia ($0.0312).
02Route notes
Traffic to Iraq terminates on Zain, Asiacell and Korek. 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 Iraq are set to 07:00 to 21:00 local, editable per campaign. Import numbers in E.164 with the +964 prefix, like +964 215 041 432; local formats are normalised when the country is known.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
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 tableIraqregistered name or shared sender04At a glance
05Nearby
06Questions, answered
Zain, Asiacell and Korek. Each is monitored separately on the status page under the regional route.
International format with +964, for example +964 215 041 432. Local formats are normalised automatically when the destination is known.
Within the local window 07:00 to 21:00, seven days a week, unless you widen it. Scheduling by local time follows the destination's clock, daylight saving included.
$0.0368 per segment, 1% below the Middle East average. Elsewhere the same route is published from $0.0790. Billed per message at send time, no other fees.
Registered name or shared sender. 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.
Alphanumeric senders are one-way. Rent a numeric sender with inbound enabled and replies are forwarded to your webhook.
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