SMS delivery facts by country
Delivery-intelligence fact sheets for 40 countries: what sender-ID class works, which charset native text uses, how numbers are formatted, and the dated published rate. Every fact carries a source and retrieval date. Machine-readable: countries.json (CC-BY 4.0), or use the interactive explorer. Updated 2026-07-27.
| Country | Code | Alphanumeric sender ID | Native charset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | +61 | pre registration | GSM-7 |
| Austria | +43 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| Belgium | +32 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Brazil | +55 | allowed | UCS-2 |
| Canada | +1 | not supported | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Czechia | +420 | allowed | UCS-2 |
| Denmark | +45 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| Egypt | +20 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Finland | +358 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| France | +33 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Germany | +49 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| Hong Kong | +852 | allowed | UCS-2 |
| India | +91 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Ireland | +353 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Italy | +39 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Japan | +81 | not supported | UCS-2 |
| Malaysia | +60 | pre registration | GSM-7 |
| Mexico | +52 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Netherlands | +31 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| New Zealand | +64 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Nigeria | +234 | pre registration | GSM-7 |
| Norway | +47 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| Pakistan | +92 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Philippines | +63 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| Poland | +48 | allowed | UCS-2 |
| Portugal | +351 | allowed | UCS-2 |
| Qatar | +974 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Russia | +7 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Saudi Arabia | +966 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Singapore | +65 | pre registration | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| South Africa | +27 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| South Korea | +82 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| Spain | +34 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Sweden | +46 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| Switzerland | +41 | allowed | GSM-7 (with caveats) |
| Turkey | +90 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| United Arab Emirates | +971 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
| United Kingdom | +44 | allowed | GSM-7 |
| United States | +1 | not supported | GSM-7 |
| Vietnam | +84 | pre registration | UCS-2 |
Scope: these are informational fact sheets. Sending, current rates and account operations live on the main site’s per-country rate cards. Countries appear here only when both a published rate and a sourced sender-ID regime exist; more are added as sources are verified.