Reach CTM, 3 and China Telecom subscribers in Macao at $0.0279 per message, 29% below the regional average. Your name as the sender. No KYC, no contract.
At $0.0279 per segment, Macao sits in the middle of the range in Asia: 16th of 32 destinations by price, 29% below the regional average. Worldwide, 148 destinations are cheaper and 79 cost more.
Closest in price nearby: India ($0.0256), Vietnam ($0.0233), Taiwan ($0.0210).
02Route notes
What is specific to sending in Macao.
Operators
CTM
3
China Telecom
Traffic to Macao terminates on CTM, 3 and China Telecom. All of them deliver alphanumeric senders as typed, so your brand name appears on the handset without registration. Delivery rates and receipt behaviour are measured per operator, and the report names the reason whenever one of them rejects a message.
Encoding and length
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.
Timing and format
Marketing campaigns are held outside 09:00 to 21:00 local time by default. Transactional messages such as codes and receipts bypass the window. Numbers are dialled with +853, for example +853 925 718 980.
Delivery receipts
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
03Sender ID
How your sender appears in Macao.
Alphanumeric senders of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space are delivered as typed. No registration is needed; the platform still falls back to a numeric sender if a carrier rejects the name.
Operators in Macao return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
How much does an SMS to Macao cost?
$0.0279 per 160-character segment, the 16th cheapest of 32 Asia destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.0600, so ours is about 53% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
Will my sender name show in Macao?
Alphanumeric senders of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space are delivered as typed. No registration is needed; the platform still falls back to a numeric sender if a carrier rejects the name.
When are marketing messages delivered in Macao?
By default between 09:00 and 21:00 local time. The window is editable per campaign; codes and alerts can bypass it.
Which operators does the route cover?
All major networks: CTM, 3 and China Telecom. Delivery is measured per operator and the report names the one that failed when a message does not land.
How long can a message to Macao be?
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.
07More products
Everything else in the toolkit.
One account, one balance, one rate card. Every product below is included; none costs extra.