Bulk SMS to Laos

Each SMS segment to Laos costs $0.00904. 1,000 single-segment messages cost $9.04, 10,000 cost $90.40, and a $40 top-up covers about 4,424 messages. Messages that cannot be delivered are refunded to your balance.

A typical mobile number in Laos has 10 digits after the calling code +856. At home people write it with a leading 0, as in 020 23 123 456, and that 0 is dropped in the international form: +856 20 23 123 456. Spaces, dots, dashes and brackets in your list are removed automatically.

Most people in Laos read Lao, and text in Lao always travels as Unicode: 70 characters fit in one SMS and longer messages are split into parts of 67 characters. A 140-character text in Lao costs two segments, while English or other plain Latin text to the same numbers fits 160 characters per SMS.

Laos keeps UTC+7 all year, with no clock change, so 10:00 in Vientiane is always 03:00 UTC. Late morning and early evening on working days are the usual hours for marketing texts there, while codes and alerts go out the moment they are needed. The scheduler works in your browser's time zone and shows the conversion.

Messages should be in Lao, as it is the official language, but English is also understood in tourist areas.

Messages are most effective during the dry season, especially in the mornings and evenings when people are planning their activities.

Yes. A campaign can mix numbers from any of the 227 destinations. The console reads each calling code, prices every number at its own country's rate and shows the cost per country before you send.