A2P SMS regulations in Bolivia.
Compliance with ATT rules and sender-ID registration.
A2P SMS to Bolivia is regulated by the Autoridad de Regulación y Fiscalización de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes (ATT). ATT + operator sender ID registration. Spanish + Quechua + Aymara supported, with approval typically taking 10-14 business days. Telecommunications Law and PII rules enforced. BroadNet carries this traffic over direct operator connections.
Who regulates A2P SMS in Bolivia?
Application-to-person messaging to Bolivia is overseen by the Autoridad de Regulación y Fiscalización de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes (ATT), which licenses the operators that terminate A2P traffic and sets the conditions those routes run under. BroadNet delivers into Bolivia over direct operator connections — Entel Bolivia, Tigo Bolivia and Viva — 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: Autoridad de Regulación y Fiscalización de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes (ATT).
- Direct operator routes: Entel Bolivia, Tigo Bolivia and Viva.
- Sender-ID registration: ATT + operator sender ID registration. Spanish + Quechua + Aymara supported.
- Typical lead time: 10-14 business days.
Sender ID registration in Bolivia
ATT + operator sender ID registration. Spanish + Quechua + Aymara supported. 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 ATT-licensed operators.
- Spanish primary: Quechua/Aymara also supported.
- Time to production: Live in 11–19 business days from test-access request to production (set by the sender-ID lead time).
Consent and content rules
Telecommunications Law and PII rules enforced. 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.
- ATT sender ID: Sender IDs registered via operator route.
- Telecoms Law: PII handled per telecoms law framework.
- Spanish primary: Quechua/Aymara also supported.
What this means for your integration
Practically, three things decide whether traffic to Bolivia performs: a registered sender ID on an ATT-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 Bolivia 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: USD 0.03 – 0.055 per message.
- Addressable mobile base: 13M subscribers.
- Data handling follows the applicable Bolivia privacy regime.
- 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 Bolivia
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) | 736 |
|---|---|
| Dialling code | +591 |
| 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 | ATT (Autoridad de Regulación y Fiscalización de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes) |
| Sender-ID rules | ATT + operator sender ID registration. Spanish + Quechua + Aymara supported. |
| Sender-ID lead time | 10-14 business days |
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Bolivia rules: promotional vs. transactional SMS
| Capability | Promotional / marketing | Transactional / service (OTP, alerts) |
|---|---|---|
| Registered sender ID required | ||
| Prior consent required | — | |
| Opt-out instruction required | — | |
| Delivery receipts available |
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