Bulk SMS prices in East and Southeast Asia

China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Mongolia, with the eleven countries of Southeast Asia. Per-message prices run from $0.00265 in South Korea to $0.05475 in North Korea, all on one prepaid credit balance.

E-commerce platforms, banks, delivery apps, airlines and education providers send heavy volumes here, mostly codes, order updates and service alerts. Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand carry large consumer lists, while Japan, Korea and Taiwan see more transactional traffic.

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese are Unicode at 70 characters per segment. Indonesian, Malay and Filipino texts fit GSM-7, and Vietnamese uses tone marks that switch to Unicode. The zone runs from UTC+6:30 in Myanmar to UTC+9 in Japan and Korea.