Bulk SMS prices in Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Per-message prices run from $0.00705 in Turkmenistan to $0.09315 in Russia, all on one prepaid credit balance.

Retail, banking, education and delivery services send most bulk traffic here, much of it in Russian alongside the national languages. Kazakhstan shares the +7 code with Russia: numbers with 6 or 7 right after +7 are priced as Kazakhstan, the rest as Russia.

Cyrillic, Georgian and Armenian scripts are all Unicode, so a single segment carries 70 characters. Uzbek and Azerbaijani in Latin script also use letters outside GSM-7. Russia alone spans eleven time zones, so national sends often go by region.