At $0.0228 per segment, Mauritius sits in the middle of the range in Africa: 30th of 56 destinations by price, 25% below the regional average. Worldwide, 117 destinations are cheaper and 110 cost more.
Closest in price nearby: Ghana ($0.0223), Guinea ($0.0223), Mayotte ($0.0233).
02Route notes
Mauritius: operators, encoding, timing.
Operators
my.t
Emtel
The route reaches subscribers of my.t and Emtel. All of them deliver alphanumeric senders as typed, so your brand name appears on the handset without registration. Each operator is monitored separately; when one degrades it shows on the status page under Routes: Middle East & Africa.
Encoding and length
GSM-7 covers everyday Mauritius traffic: 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per part. Watch for smart quotes and emoji, which force Unicode and halve the segment length.
Timing and format
Marketing campaigns are held outside 08:00 to 20:00 local time by default. Transactional messages such as codes and receipts bypass the window. Numbers are dialled with +230, for example +230 998 555 892.
Delivery receipts
Operators in Mauritius return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
03Sender ID
How your sender appears in Mauritius.
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.
GSM-7 covers everyday Mauritius 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?
my.t and Emtel, with delivery rate and receipt behaviour measured for each.
Is delivery confirmed?
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 Mauritius cost?
$228.00 at $0.0228 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 $490.00.
How will recipients in Mauritius 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 Mauritius?
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.
07More products
Everything else in the toolkit.
One account, one balance, one rate card. Every product below is included; none costs extra.