Bulk SMS to Malawi

Each SMS segment to Malawi costs $0.04784. 1,000 single-segment messages cost $47.84, 10,000 cost $478.40, and a $40 top-up covers about 836 messages. Messages that cannot be delivered are refunded to your balance.

A typical mobile number in Malawi has 9 digits after the calling code +265. At home people write it with a leading 0, as in 0991 23 45 67, and that 0 is dropped in the international form: +265 991 23 45 67. Spaces, dots, dashes and brackets in your list are removed automatically.

English is written with letters that all belong to the GSM-7 alphabet, so a plain message to Malawi carries 160 characters in one SMS and 153 in each part of a longer text. An emoji, or curly quotes pasted from a word processor, turn the whole message into Unicode with 70 characters per SMS, and the composer shows which character caused it.

Malawi keeps UTC+2 all year, with no clock change, so 10:00 in Blantyre is always 08:00 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.

English and Chichewa are commonly used for SMS in Malawi, as they are widely understood by residents. Messages targeting rural areas often use Chichewa.

Yes, the agricultural season from November to April is a peak period for SMS campaigns. Many businesses focus on messaging farmers during this time.

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.