Locale Summary
Locale name | India |
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ISO code | IN |
Region | Asia |
Mobile country code | 404, 405 |
Dialing code | +91 |
Guidelines
Two-way SMS supported | No |
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Number portability available | Yes |
Twilio concatenated message support | Yes |
Message length | 160 characters |
Twilio MMS support | Converted to SMS with embedded URL |
Sending SMS to landline numbers | You cannot send SMS to a landline destination number: the Twilio REST API will throw a 400 response with error code 21614, the message will not appear in the logs, and the account will not be charged. |
Compliance considerations | To ensure Twilio is in compliance with local regulation, domestic transactional, domestic promotional, and international SMS messages are sent through mobile operators’ International Long Distance Operator (ILDO) connections. Pre-registered Alphanumeric Sender IDs are not supported and messages are delivered with random ILDO-approved short codes in the format
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Phone Numbers & Sender ID
Alphanumeric | Long Code | Short Code | |||
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Pre-registration | Dynamic | Domestic | International | ||
Operator network capability | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Supported |
Twilio supported | Not Supported | --- | --- | Supported | Not Supported |
Sender ID preserved | --- | --- | --- | No | --- |
Provisioning time | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
UCS-2 support | N/A | N/A | N/A | Supported | N/A |
Use case restrictions | N/A | N/A | N/A | Any Numeric Sender ID sent to Indian mobile subscribers will be overwritten with a random short number between five and nine digits long of the format | N/A |
Best practices | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Alphanumeric - Pre-registration | |
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Operator network capability | Not Supported |
Twilio supported | Not Supported |
Sender ID preserved | --- |
Provisioning time | N/A |
UCS-2 support | N/A |
Use case restrictions | N/A |
Best practices | N/A |
Alphanumeric - Dynamic | |
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Operator network capability | Not Supported |
Twilio supported | --- |
Sender ID preserved | --- |
Provisioning time | N/A |
UCS-2 support | N/A |
Use case restrictions | N/A |
Best practices | N/A |
Long Code - Domestic | |
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Operator network capability | Not Supported |
Twilio supported | --- |
Sender ID preserved | --- |
Provisioning time | N/A |
UCS-2 support | N/A |
Use case restrictions | N/A |
Best practices | N/A |
Long Code - International | |
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Operator network capability | Not Supported |
Twilio supported | Supported |
Sender ID preserved | No |
Provisioning time | N/A |
UCS-2 support | Supported |
Use case restrictions | Any Numeric Sender ID sent to Indian mobile subscribers will be overwritten with a random short number between five and nine digits long of the format |
Best practices | N/A |
Short Code | |
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Operator network capability | Supported |
Twilio supported | Not Supported |
Sender ID preserved | --- |
Provisioning time | N/A |
UCS-2 support | N/A |
Use case restrictions | N/A |
Best practices | N/A |
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