Bulk SMS prices in East and Southern Africa

Twenty-five destinations from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to South Africa, the Indian Ocean islands and Madagascar. Per-message prices run from $0.00705 in Rwanda to $0.05945 in Ethiopia, all on one prepaid credit balance.

Mobile money and banking, retail, insurance, health programmes, universities and logistics firms send most bulk texts here. Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have some of the most text-literate audiences anywhere, and South Africa carries large retail and loyalty lists.

English and Swahili texts fit GSM-7. Amharic and Tigrinya use the Ge'ez script and are Unicode, as are French texts with accents in Madagascar, the Comoros and Djibouti. Most of the zone is between UTC+2 and UTC+4.

25 destinations in East and Southern Africa

Country	Code	Per SMS	10,000 SMS	$40 buys
Botswana	+267	$0.00865	$86.50	4,624
Burundi	+257	$0.01005	$100.50	3,980
Comoros	+269	$0.03285	$328.50	1,217
Djibouti	+253	$0.02045	$204.50	1,955
Eritrea	+291	$0.01605	$160.50	2,492
Eswatini	+268	$0.00865	$86.50	4,624
Ethiopia	+251	$0.05945	$594.50	672
Kenya	+254	$0.02075	$207.50	1,927
Lesotho	+266	$0.00785	$78.50	5,095
Madagascar	+261	$0.01915	$191.50	2,088
Malawi	+265	$0.04325	$432.50	924
Mauritius	+230	$0.01335	$133.50	2,996
Mayotte	+262	$0.01365	$136.50	2,930
Mozambique	+258	$0.01175	$117.50	3,404
Namibia	+264	$0.00895	$89.50	4,469
Reunion	+262	$0.01365	$136.50	2,930
Rwanda	+250	$0.00705	$70.50	5,673
Seychelles	+248	$0.01005	$100.50	3,980
Somalia	+252	$0.01225	$122.50	3,265
South Africa	+27	$0.00705	$70.50	5,673
South Sudan	+211	$0.01085	$108.50	3,686
Tanzania	+255	$0.00845	$84.50	4,733
Uganda	+256	$0.01275	$127.50	3,137
Zambia	+260	$0.02675	$267.50	1,495
Zimbabwe	+263	$0.01605	$160.50	2,492

Bulk SMS prices in East and Southern Africa

25 destinations in East and Southern Africa

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