Africa
SMS to South AfricaBulk campaigns and API messages to South Africa at one published rate, the 3rd cheapest in Africa. Your name as the sender; quiet hours 08:00 to 20:00 local time. Paid in crypto, no identity checks.
01Rate
South Africa is the 3rd cheapest of the 56 Africa destinations we serve. Its $0.0121 rate is 60% below the average for the region, and only 25 of our 228 destinations are priced lower.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $12.10 | $26.00 |
| 10,000 | $121.00 | $260.00 |
| 100,000 | $1,210.00 | $2,600.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $12,100.00 | $26,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Rwanda ($0.0121), Central African Republic ($0.0112), Sierra Leone ($0.0130).
02Route notes
Traffic to South Africa terminates on Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom. 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.
The GSM-7 alphabet fits South Africa traffic in segments of 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated). A transactional message with a code and a link usually fits in one segment.
The default delivery window for South Africa runs from 08:00 to 20:00, local time; schedule by local hour and the campaign opens when South Africa does. International format uses +27: +27 854 730 463.
Operators in South Africa return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
03Sender ID
Alphanumeric senders pass as typed here. Brand names, product names and short codes of letters all work, without a registration file, and the numeric fallback only kicks in when an operator rejects the name.
Alphanumeric delivered
Sender types explained Sender ID rule of every country, in one tableSouth Africayour name as the sender04At a glance
05Nearby
06Questions, answered
Alphanumeric senders pass as typed here. Brand names, product names and short codes of letters all work, without a registration file, and the numeric fallback only kicks in when an operator rejects the name.
By default between 08:00 and 20:00 local time. The window is editable per campaign; codes and alerts can bypass it.
All major networks: Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom. Delivery is measured per operator and the report names the one that failed when a message does not land.
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. Up to 6 parts per message.
Operators in South Africa return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
$0.0121 per 160-character segment, the 3rd cheapest of 56 Africa destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.0260, so ours is about 53% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
07More products
One account, one balance, one rate card. Every product below is included; none costs extra.
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