A2P SMS regulations in Algeria.
Compliance with ARPCE rules and sender-ID registration.
A2P SMS to Algeria is regulated by the Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Communications Électroniques (ARPCE). Sender IDs require ARPCE + operator approval. Arabic and French primary; Latin acceptable, with approval typically taking 10-14 business days. Algerian Data Protection Law 18-07 applies. BroadNet carries this traffic over direct operator connections.
Who regulates A2P SMS in Algeria?
Application-to-person messaging to Algeria is overseen by the Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Communications Électroniques (ARPCE), which licenses the operators that terminate A2P traffic and sets the conditions those routes run under. BroadNet delivers into Algeria over direct operator connections — Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo Algeria — rather than through resold or grey routes, so the sender ID, the delivery receipt and the audit trail all come back from the licensed path.
- Telecoms regulator: Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Communications Électroniques (ARPCE).
- Direct operator routes: Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo Algeria.
- Sender-ID registration: Sender IDs require ARPCE + operator approval. Arabic and French primary; Latin acceptable.
- Typical lead time: 10-14 business days.
Sender ID registration in Algeria
Sender IDs require ARPCE + operator approval. Arabic and French primary; Latin acceptable. Registration is not a formality — an unregistered or mismatched sender ID is the most common reason otherwise-valid traffic is filtered, and the failure is usually silent rather than a hard rejection. Plan 10-14 business days for approval and register before you need the route, not during a launch.
- Lead time: 10-14 business days.
- BroadNet files sender IDs on your behalf through the ARPCE-licensed operators.
- Arabic + French: UCS-2 routes at parity; French diacritics supported in GSM-7.
- Time to production: Live in 11–19 business days from test-access request to production (set by the sender-ID lead time).
Consent, content and timing rules
Algerian Data Protection Law 18-07 applies. Cross-border data transfers restricted. Local entity recommended for direct billing. Promotional traffic requires a consent record you can produce on request, and an opt-out that is honoured immediately and permanently. Transactional messages — one-time passcodes, delivery and account alerts — are treated differently from marketing, but the distinction is decided by the content of the message rather than by how the campaign is labelled.
- ARPCE sender ID: Sender IDs require ARPCE + operator approval. BroadNet manages.
- Arabic + French: UCS-2 routes at parity; French diacritics supported in GSM-7.
- Law 18-07 PII: Algerian Data Protection Law — consent, retention, cross-border restrictions.
- Content restrictions: Political and religious content reviewed at operator firewall.
- Law No. 18-07 of 10 June 2018 is enforced by the ANPDP (Autorité Nationale de Protection des Données à caractère Personnel), operational since 2023.
What this means for your integration
Practically, three things decide whether traffic to Algeria performs: a registered sender ID on an ARPCE-licensed route, a consent and opt-out record you can evidence, and message content that matches the category it was registered under. BroadNet's compliance engine checks each submission against the Algeria ruleset before it reaches the operator, so a non-compliant send is rejected back to you rather than filtered silently downstream — which is the difference between a fixable error and traffic that quietly disappears.
- Every message returns a delivery receipt (DLR); BroadNet does not publish per-country delivery percentages.
- Indicative list pricing: EUR 0.04 – 0.07 per message.
- Addressable mobile base: 47M subscribers.
- Law 18-07 PII: Algerian Data Protection Law — consent, retention, cross-border restrictions.
- Submit your KYC packTrade licence, authorisation letter and sample messages
- BroadNet files the applicationWith the operators or the regulator, as the market requires
- Review and approvalTypical lead time10-14 business days
- Send under your brandYour approved sender ID on every message
Technical facts for Algeria
Network codes, message lengths and sender-ID rules in one table. Segment lengths are the GSM standard values (3GPP TS 23.038).
| Mobile country code (MCC) | 603 |
|---|---|
| Dialling code | +213 |
| Operators (MCC-MNC) |
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| SMS length, GSM-7 (Latin alphabet) | 160 characters in a single SMS; 153 per part when concatenated |
| SMS length, UCS-2 (Arabic, Cyrillic and other scripts) | 70 characters in a single SMS; 67 per part when concatenated |
| Regulator | ARPCE (Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Communications Électroniques) |
| Sender-ID rules | Sender IDs require ARPCE + operator approval. Arabic and French primary; Latin acceptable. |
| Sender-ID lead time | 10-14 business days |
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Algeria rules: promotional vs. transactional SMS
| Capability | Promotional / marketing | Transactional / service (OTP, alerts) |
|---|---|---|
| Registered sender ID required | ||
| Prior consent required | — | |
| Opt-out instruction required | — | |
| Timing restrictions apply | — | |
| Delivery receipts available |
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