Bulk campaigns and API messages to Kiribati at one published rate, the 17th cheapest in Oceania. Your name as the sender; quiet hours 08:00 to 20:00 local time. Paid in crypto, no identity checks.
Sending to Kiribati costs $0.0419 per segment, which places it 17th of 20 in Oceania and 186th of 228 overall, 14% above what the region costs on average.
Every licensed mobile operator in Kiribati is reachable on this route. All of them deliver alphanumeric senders as typed, so your brand name appears on the handset without registration. Delivery is measured per operator and incidents appear on the status page under the regional route.
Encoding and length
The GSM-7 alphabet fits Kiribati traffic in segments of 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated). A transactional message with a code and a link usually fits in one segment.
Timing and format
Quiet hours for Kiribati are set to 08:00 to 20:00 local, editable per campaign. Import numbers in E.164 with the +686 prefix, like +686 138 045 057; local formats are normalised when the country is known.
Delivery receipts
Operators in Kiribati return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
03Sender ID
How your sender appears in Kiribati.
Type a name of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space and it is what recipients see. No registration step for this destination; if a single carrier refuses the name, that message falls back to a numeric sender and the report says so.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
How much do 10,000 SMS to Kiribati cost?
$419.00 at $0.0419 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 $900.00.
How will recipients in Kiribati see the sender?
Type a name of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space and it is what recipients see. No registration step for this destination; if a single carrier refuses the name, that message falls back to a numeric sender and the report says so.
Are there quiet hours for Kiribati?
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.
Which encoding applies?
GSM-7 covers everyday Kiribati traffic: 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per part. Watch for smart quotes and emoji, which force Unicode and halve the segment length.
Which carriers are on the route?
All licensed operators in Kiribati, with delivery rate and receipt behaviour measured for each.
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