Country code +20

Sending SMS to Egypt

Egypt is the largest mobile market in North Africa, and Arabic-language messaging is the default rather than the exception. That makes unicode segment maths central to campaign cost here: a 160-character English message and a 70-character Arabic one cost the same per segment.

Sender ID

How your name appears in Egypt

What shows up in the recipient’s inbox, and what has to be true before it can.

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Text Message

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Delivered on +20

Sender ID rules for +20

Alphanumeric sender IDs require registration with the operators and NTRA oversight.

Number format+20 1XX XXX XXXX — mobile numbers begin 01 nationally.

Delivers across every major network in Egypt: Vodafone Egypt, Orange Egypt, Etisalat Misr, WE (Telecom Egypt).

What people send most: Banking alerts · E-commerce order updates · Telco notifications.

Message length: under the standard SMS encoding, a segment typically holds 160 GSM-7 characters, or 70 once a message uses Unicode — Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, emoji. Longer messages split into several segments automatically and are billed per segment; exact limits are confirmed for Egypt as part of onboarding.

Before you send

What Egypt requires

These are the constraints that decide whether a message is delivered, filtered or blocked — not general best practice.

Requirement 1 of 4: Sender ID registration is required and handled per operator under NTRA regulation.

Requirement 1 of 4

Sender ID registration is required and handled per operator under NTRA regulation.

Checked automatically on every message we send to Egypt — nothing for you to track by hand.

Networks

Mobile operators in Egypt

We deliver to every network below. Route quality is measured per operator, not averaged across the country.

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Vodafone EgyptLive route

Orange EgyptLive route

Etisalat MisrLive route

WE (Telecom Egypt)Live route

Traffic

What businesses send in Egypt

Banking alerts

Sent the instant the triggering event happens — trusted for anything time-sensitive tied to money.

E-commerce order updates

Keeps the recipient's attention without needing an app open, for the moment they actually care about the update.

Telco notifications

One of the use cases we see repeatedly in this market — SMS still outperforms other channels for anything that needs to be read quickly.

Dialling

How to dial Egypt

Every part of the number, laid out separately, then the same thing written the way an API expects it.

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20Country code

1XX XXX XXXXNational number

+20 — +20 1XX XXX XXXX — mobile numbers begin 01 nationally.

From abroad, replace your exit code with +, then 20, then the national number — dropping the national trunk prefix if the country uses one (a leading 0 in most, though not in the +1 numbering plan). Store numbers in E.164 (+20…) and they work from any country and any API.

At a glance