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