One SMS can have a maximum of 160 ASCII characters or 70 Unicode characters. If there are more than 160 characters, a charge for multiple SMS will be applied.
Message character limits and number of SMS required:
1 SMS required | 2 SMS required | 3 SMS required | |
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ASCII | 160 characters or less | 306 characters or less | 459 characters or less |
Unicode | 70 characters or less | 134 characters or less | 201 characters or less |
NOTESpecial characters such as Chinese may be considered more than 1 character.
The following ASCII characters counts as 2 characters when determining message length
ASCII characters | |
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\n | Line feed |
[ | Left square bracket |
] | Right square bracket |
\ | Backslash |
^ | Circumflex accent |
{ | Left curly bracket |
} | Right curly bracket |
| | Vertical bar |
€ | Euro sign |