Bulk SMS prices in West and Central Africa

Twenty-five destinations from Senegal and Nigeria to Cameroon, the Congo basin and Angola. Per-message prices run from $0.00595 in Togo to $0.06855 in Sao Tome and Principe, all on one prepaid credit balance.

Mobile money, microfinance, betting, agricultural cooperatives, schools, churches and NGOs send large lists in this zone, where a text reaches people far from bank branches and on basic phones without data. Nigeria and Ghana carry the largest English-language lists, while most other countries read French or Portuguese.

English texts fit GSM-7; French accents and Portuguese letters such as ã or ç switch to Unicode. The zone mostly sits on UTC+0 and UTC+1, so a single send time often works for a whole regional list.