Africa
SMS to Sao Tome and PrincipeOne rate for Sao Tome and Principe, $0.0167, from the first message to the millionth. GSM-7 segments, your name as the sender, handset receipts. Funded in crypto, without identity checks.
01Rate
At $0.0167 per segment, Sao Tome and Principe sits among the cheaper routes in Africa: 12th of 56 destinations by price, 45% below the regional average. Worldwide, 69 destinations are cheaper and 158 cost more.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $16.70 | $36.00 |
| 10,000 | $167.00 | $360.00 |
| 100,000 | $1,670.00 | $3,600.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $16,700.00 | $36,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Angola ($0.0163), Burundi ($0.0172), Seychelles ($0.0172).
02Route notes
Every licensed mobile operator in Sao Tome and Principe 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.
GSM-7 covers everyday Sao Tome and Principe traffic: 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per part. Watch for smart quotes and emoji, which force Unicode and halve the segment length.
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 +239, for example +239 510 067 337.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
03Sender ID
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.
Alphanumeric delivered
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06Questions, answered
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.
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.
GSM-7 covers everyday Sao Tome and Principe traffic: 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per part. Watch for smart quotes and emoji, which force Unicode and halve the segment length.
All licensed operators in Sao Tome and Principe, with delivery rate and receipt behaviour measured for each.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
$167.00 at $0.0167 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 $360.00.
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