SMS · AfricaSMS pricing in Ethiopia
SMS to Ethiopia costs from $0.052 per message (indicative list rate, reviewed 2026-09-24) over 2 direct operators (Ethio Telecom, Safaricom Ethiopia); sender IDs are registered with the ECA in 10-14 business days.
Across 2 direct operators · regulator ECA
How much does SMS to Ethiopia cost?
SMS to Ethiopia costs from $0.052 per message (indicative list rate, reviewed 2026-09-24) over 2 direct operators. Direct binds, registered sender IDs and ECA-approved routes. List-tier rates shown — Growth, Volume and Enterprise discounts apply automatically.
| Operator | Rate (USD per SMS) | Send window |
|---|---|---|
Ethio Telecom Direct bind · A2P registered | $ 0.0542 per SMS | — |
Safaricom Ethiopia Direct bind · A2P registered | $ 0.0520 per SMS | — |
- Sender IDs registered through Ethio Telecom (and now Safaricom Ethiopia).
- Amharic and English supported.
- Long messages (>160 GSM-7 chars) split into segments — billed per segment.
- Concatenation, Unicode and Latin all priced identically per segment.
- Delivery receipts (DLRs) included — no per-DLR fee.
SMS in Ethiopia: routes, rules and timing.
The same operator, regulator and timing data as our Ethiopia coverage page, so both pages always agree.
| Regulator | Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) |
|---|---|
| Operator routes | 2 · Ethio Telecom, Safaricom Ethiopia |
| Sender-ID lead time | 10-14 business days |
| Typical OTP latency | 3.7 s |
| Mobile subscribers | 75M |
| Dialling code · MCC | +251 · 636 |
| Time to launch | Live in 11–19 business days from test-access request to production (set by the sender-ID lead time) |
| Billing currencies | USD |
| Published SMS band | USD 0.04 – 0.07 |
SMS to Ethiopia: common questions
Which operators carry SMS to Ethiopia, and at what rate?
What does the SMS price include?
Do I need to register a sender ID in Ethiopia?
How do I get test access for Ethiopia?
Tiers upgrade automatically — the moment you cross the line.
Your effective rate is recalculated every billing cycle from the volume you sent that month. No paperwork, no renegotiation. Discounts apply automatically.
List rate. No commitment, no minimums.
Auto-applies on traffic above 100K/mo.
Includes monthly route review + Slack channel.
Direct operator pricing, signed SLAs, optional private cloud.
| Tier | Monthly volume | Discount | Effective rate (USD per SMS) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | 0 – 100K messages / month | List rate | $ 0.0520 |
| Growth | 100K – 1M messages / month | −12% | $ 0.0458 |
| Volume | 1M – 5M messages / month | −26% | $ 0.0385 |
| Enterprise | 5M+ messages / month | −40% | $ 0.0312 |
More on Ethiopia
Above 1M / month, pricing becomes a conversation.
Per-country rate cards negotiated against your traffic mix, dedicated SMPP binds, named account management, signed delivery SLAs and optional on-premise or private-cloud deployment. Most quotes come back within two business days.
- Custom per-country rate cards
- Dedicated SMPP binds (capacity agreed per bind, up to 30,000 SMS/s per node)
- Named account manager + on-call engineer
- Signed delivery SLA — 99.99% uptime
- On-prem or private-cloud deployment
- Quarterly route review and benchmark
Launch SMS in Ethiopia on approved routes.
Test access on request, with a reply within one business day. Live in 11–19 business days from test-access request to production (set by the sender-ID lead time). Billed in AED, SAR, USD, EUR or GBP.
$ curl -X POST https://api.broadnet.me/sms/sendSms -H "Authorization: Bearer $BROADNET_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"senderId":"BroadNet","destinationNumber":"447700900123","message":"Hello from BroadNet","messageType":"TEXT"}'