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#LOCAL NUMBER PRESS REGISTER REGISTRATION#

Twilio can help you through the registration process, which will often involve validating proof of company registration and messaging use case. Furthermore, many of these laws specify that your messages cannot contain content that is considered to be advertising, marketing or solicitation.

Pre-registered Alphanumeric - Laws mandate that you must register your alphanumeric sender ID with local authorities in some countries.

Sender IDs are supported in two different ways:

When you’re making your API Request, rather than using an E.164 formatted Twilio Phone number for the 'From' value, you can use a custom text string like your company's name, as shown below: You don’t need a phone number to send a message using a Sender ID. Sender IDs, otherwise referred to as “Alphanumeric Sender ID”, “Dynamic Sender ID” or just “Alpha”, allow you to send messages using alphanumeric characters, usually a personalized sender name (instead of using a Twilio phone number). The most important thing to remember as you start to scale into International markets is to identify each country’s unique number types and choose the number type that’s right for your use case. In addition to this, Twilio does not currently support every country that does, but we’re working on it!

#LOCAL NUMBER PRESS REGISTER CODE#

However not all countries offer SMS messaging through short code numbers. That means they’re great for sending high-volume and/or time-sensitive messages. These numbers are pre-approved by carriers and allow high throughput. Also, they are not always 10 digits long. These number types may have different meanings in each country where they exist. In other countries, you might see “long code” equivalent numbers, such as There are two different types of long code numbers: Here in the United States we have: Long codeĪ standard 10 digit phone number. Number types are different in each Country.

It will also cover sender IDs, another way to send your SMS messages! Number Types This blog will guide you through the best practices and nuances of using different types of phone numbers in different countries. At the same time, we want to make things easy. Twilio follows regulations diligently so we can protect our customers from getting penalized. Global telecommunications regulations vary from country to country and are always changing.

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