Country code +60

Sending SMS to Malaysia

Malaysia is a multilingual market where the same campaign may need Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil variants — and the moment Chinese or Tamil script appears, the message becomes unicode and the segment length drops from 160 characters to 70. That single fact drives most Malaysian campaign design.

Sender ID

How your name appears in Malaysia

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

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Text Message

Your verification code is 4172. Valid for 10 minutes.

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Delivered on +60

Sender ID rules for +60

Alphanumeric sender IDs are supported and should be registered with the operators.

Number format+60 1X XXX XXXX — mobile numbers begin 01 nationally.

Delivers across every major network in Malaysia: Maxis, Celcom, Digi, U Mobile.

What people send most: Banking and e-wallet alerts · Retail promotions · Logistics 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 Malaysia as part of onboarding.

Before you send

What Malaysia requires

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

Requirement 1 of 4: MCMC regulates the sector and operators filter unregistered senders.

Requirement 1 of 4

MCMC regulates the sector and operators filter unregistered senders.

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

Networks

Mobile operators in Malaysia

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

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MaxisLive route

CelcomLive route

DigiLive route

U MobileLive route

Traffic

What businesses send in Malaysia

Banking and e-wallet alerts

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

Retail promotions

Needs clear consent and a working opt-out — the requirements above apply directly to this traffic.

Logistics notifications

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

Dialling

How to dial Malaysia

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

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60Country code

1X XXX XXXXNational number

+60 — +60 1X XXX XXXX — mobile numbers begin 01 nationally.

From abroad, replace your exit code with +, then 60, 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 (+60…) and they work from any country and any API.

At a glance