Asia
SMS to LaosReach Lao Telecom, Unitel and ETL subscribers in Laos at $0.0140 per message, 65% below the regional average. Registered name or shared sender. No KYC, no contract.
01Rate
At $0.0140 per segment, Laos sits among the cheaper routes in Asia: 5th of 32 destinations by price, 65% below the regional average. Worldwide, 37 destinations are cheaper and 190 cost more.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $14.00 | $30.00 |
| 10,000 | $140.00 | $300.00 |
| 100,000 | $1,400.00 | $3,000.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $14,000.00 | $30,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Malaysia ($0.0149), Maldives ($0.0154), Turkmenistan ($0.0121).
02Route notes
The route reaches subscribers of Lao Telecom, Unitel and ETL. 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. Each operator is monitored separately; when one degrades it shows on the status page under Routes: Asia-Pacific.
Expect Unicode encoding for Laos: 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.
Quiet hours for Laos are set to 09:00 to 21:00 local, editable per campaign. Import numbers in E.164 with the +856 prefix, like +856 676 196 347; local formats are normalised when the country is known.
Laos gives full handset receipts, which makes list hygiene easy: unknown numbers are flagged at the first send.
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.
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06Questions, answered
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.
Operators in Laos return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
$0.0140 per 160-character segment, the 5th cheapest of 32 Asia destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.0300, so ours is about 53% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
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.
By default between 09:00 and 21:00 local time. The window is editable per campaign; codes and alerts can bypass it.
All major networks: Lao Telecom, Unitel and ETL. Delivery is measured per operator and the report names the one that failed when a message does not land.
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