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.

Before committing volume to any destination, the route quality metrics guide covers what to measure - and the DLR status-code reference decodes what delivery reports actually assert.