Bulk SMS prices in South Asia

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, with Afghanistan, Bhutan and the Maldives. Per-message prices run from $0.00895 in Maldives to $0.04105 in Sri Lanka, all on one prepaid credit balance.

Banks, e-commerce, ride and food delivery, education, healthcare and political campaigns send some of the largest SMS lists in the world here. English texts are common for transactional messages, while marketing and public messages often use Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Sinhala, Tamil or Nepali.

Indian, Bengali, Sinhala, Urdu and Dhivehi scripts are Unicode at 70 characters per segment, so a short English version often costs less than the same text in a local script. India runs on UTC+5:30 and Nepal on UTC+5:45, two of the few half and quarter-hour time zones.