EnglishSending SMS to Philippines
The Philippines was once the texting capital of the world and SMS remains central to how businesses reach customers. Since the SIM Registration Act, unregistered SIMs are deactivated, and the NTC now requires commercial senders to register — a direct response to the scale of smishing the market experienced.
How to dial Philippines
Every part of the number, laid out separately, then the same thing written the way an API expects it.
+63 — +63 9XX XXX XXXX — mobile numbers begin 09 nationally.
From abroad, replace your exit code with +, then 63, 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 (+63…) and they work from any country and any API.
Philippines by the numbers
The figures below come from public country data and set the context for how much SMS traffic Philippines actually carries.
How your name appears in Philippines
What shows up in the recipient’s inbox, and what has to be true before it can.
Delivered on +63Sender ID rules for +63
Registered alphanumeric sender IDs. Following anti-smishing measures, messages containing URLs face additional scrutiny and are frequently blocked from unregistered senders.
+63 9XX XXX XXXX — mobile numbers begin 09 nationally.Delivers across every major network in Philippines: Globe Telecom, Smart Communications, DITO Telecommunity.
What people send most: E-wallet and remittance alerts · Telco service notifications · E-commerce order updates.
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 Philippines as part of onboarding.
What Philippines requires
These are the constraints that decide whether a message is delivered, filtered or blocked — not general best practice.
Requirement 1 of 4: SIM registration is mandatory for subscribers, which has reduced but not eliminated fraud traffic.
SIM registration is mandatory for subscribers, which has reduced but not eliminated fraud traffic.
Checked automatically on every message we send to Philippines — nothing for you to track by hand.
Mobile operators in Philippines
We deliver to every network below. Route quality is measured per operator, not averaged across the country.
3NetworksWhat businesses send in Philippines
Sent the instant the triggering event happens — trusted for anything time-sensitive tied to money.
Cuts no-shows more effectively than email — most people notice a text within minutes of it arriving.
Keeps the recipient's attention without needing an app open, for the moment they actually care about the update.
All country calling codes
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AfghanistanAF+93
ArmeniaAM+374
AzerbaijanAZ+994
BahrainBH+973
BangladeshBD+880
BhutanBT+975
BruneiBN+673
CambodiaKH+855
ChinaCN+86
GeorgiaGE+995
IndiaIN+91
IndonesiaID+62
IranIR+98
IraqIQ+964
JapanJP+81
JordanJO+962
KazakhstanKZ+7
KuwaitKW+965
KyrgyzstanKG+996
LaosLA+856
LebanonLB+961
MalaysiaMY+60
MaldivesMV+960
MongoliaMN+976
MyanmarMM+95
NepalNP+977
North KoreaKP+850
OmanOM+968
PakistanPK+92
PalestinePS+970PhilippinesPH+63
QatarQA+974
RussiaRU+7
Saudi ArabiaSA+966
SingaporeSG+65
South KoreaKR+82
Sri LankaLK+94
SyriaSY+963
TajikistanTJ+992
ThailandTH+66
Timor-LesteTL+670
TürkiyeTR+90
TurkmenistanTM+993
United Arab EmiratesAE+971
UzbekistanUZ+998
VietnamVN+84
YemenYE+967Other country codes
Countries with neighbouring dialling codes.
Start sending to Philippines
Direct routes, per-operator delivery reporting and sender ID handling for +63 — from one dashboard or one API call.