SMS to Papua New Guinea $0.0656 per message, no KYC.
Reach Digicel and bmobile subscribers in Papua New Guinea at $0.0656 per message, around the regional average. Your name as the sender. No KYC, no contract.
Sending to Papua New Guinea costs $0.0656 per segment, which places it 19th of 20 in Oceania and 209th of 228 overall, 78% above what the region costs on average.
The route reaches subscribers of Digicel and bmobile. 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: Asia-Pacific.
Encoding and length
Latin text is sent in GSM-7, 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per segment. Add an emoji or a non-Latin character and the whole message switches to Unicode at 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). The composer shows the count before you send.
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 +675, for example +675 190 322 098.
Delivery receipts
Papua New Guinea gives full handset receipts, which makes list hygiene easy: unknown numbers are flagged at the first send.
03Sender ID
How your sender appears in Papua New Guinea.
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.
$0.0656 per segment, 78% above the Oceania average. Elsewhere the same route is published from $0.1410. Billed per message at send time, no other fees.
Is an alphanumeric sender delivered in Papua New Guinea?
Your name as 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.
Can I reply to messages sent to Papua New Guinea?
Alphanumeric senders are one-way. Rent a numeric sender with inbound enabled and replies are forwarded to your webhook.
Which networks receive the messages?
Digicel and bmobile. Each is monitored separately on the status page under the regional route.
What number format should I import?
International format with +675, for example +675 190 322 098. Local formats are normalised automatically when the destination is known.
What time do campaigns go out in Papua New Guinea?
Within the local window 08:00 to 20:00, seven days a week, unless you widen it. Scheduling by local time follows the destination's clock, daylight saving included.
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