SMS API for Angola: bulk SMS to +244 numbers
Angola
Calling code +244
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00987
- Messages for $100
- 10,131
- Local language
- Portuguese
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Angola costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00987 | $0.01974 |
| 1,000 | $9.87 | $19.74 |
| 10,000 | $98.70 | $197.40 |
| 100,000 | $987.00 | $1,974.00 |
Number format in Angola
Mobile numbers in Angola have 9 digits after +244 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 923 123 456 becomes +244 923 123 456 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Portuguese fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use á, â, ã, ç, ê, í, ó, ô, õ and ú: those letters are outside GSM-7 and turn the message into Unicode at 70 characters per segment (67 per part). For short alerts, write them without those letters to keep one segment; for longer texts, the console names each letter that changed the encoding.
Time zone and timing
Angola keeps UTC+1 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Luanda is always 08:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Angola with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (AO) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+244923123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+244923123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00987", country: "AO"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+244923123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.00987"What developers send to Angola
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SMS to Angola: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Angola?
How many SMS to Angola does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Angola numbers for the API?
Which language should SMS be in for Angola?
Start sending to Angola
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Angola at $0.00987 per segment, from the console or with one API call.