A2P SMS regulations in Ivory Coast.
Compliance with ARTCI rules and sender-ID registration.
A2P SMS to Ivory Coast is regulated by the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI). ARTCI sender ID registration via operator. French primary; English acceptable, with approval typically taking 7-10 business days. Ivorian Data Protection Law 2013 in force. BroadNet carries this traffic over direct operator connections.
Who regulates A2P SMS in Ivory Coast?
Application-to-person messaging to Ivory Coast is overseen by the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI), which licenses the operators that terminate A2P traffic and sets the conditions those routes run under. BroadNet delivers into Ivory Coast over direct operator connections — Orange CI, MTN CI and Moov CI — 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 des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI).
- Direct operator routes: Orange CI, MTN CI and Moov CI.
- Sender-ID registration: ARTCI sender ID registration via operator. French primary; English acceptable.
- Typical lead time: 7-10 business days.
Sender ID registration in Ivory Coast
ARTCI sender ID registration via operator. French primary; English 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 7-10 business days for approval and register before you need the route, not during a launch.
- Lead time: 7-10 business days.
- BroadNet files sender IDs on your behalf through the ARTCI-licensed operators.
- French primary: French native; English acceptable.
- Time to production: Live in 5–15 business days from test-access request to production.
Consent and content rules
Ivorian Data Protection Law 2013 in force. 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.
- ARTCI sender ID: Sender IDs registered via operator route.
- French primary: French native; English acceptable.
- DPL 2013: Ivorian Data Protection Law in force.
What this means for your integration
Practically, three things decide whether traffic to Ivory Coast performs: a registered sender ID on an ARTCI-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 Ivory Coast 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 0.03 – 0.05 per message.
- Addressable mobile base: 44M subscribers.
- DPL 2013: Ivorian Data Protection Law in force.
- 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 time7-10 business days
- Send under your brandYour approved sender ID on every message
Technical facts for Ivory Coast
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) | 612 |
|---|---|
| Dialling code | +225 |
| 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 | ARTCI (Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire) |
| Sender-ID rules | ARTCI sender ID registration via operator. French primary; English acceptable. |
| Sender-ID lead time | 7-10 business days |
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Ivory Coast 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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