SMS API for Falkland Islands: bulk SMS to +500 numbers
Falkland Islands
Calling code +500
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01817
- Messages for $100
- 5,503
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to the Falkland Islands costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01817 | $0.03634 |
| 1,000 | $18.17 | $36.34 |
| 10,000 | $181.70 | $363.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,817.00 | $3,634.00 |
Number format in Falkland Islands
Mobile numbers in the Falkland Islands have 5 digits after +500 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 51234 becomes +500 51234 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to the Falkland Islands holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
The Falkland Islands keeps UTC-3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Stanley is always 12:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Falkland Islands with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (FK) 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": "+50051234", "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: "+50051234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01817", country: "FK"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+50051234", "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"]) # "0.01817"What developers send to the Falkland Islands
Flight updates
Travelers in Stanley receive SMS notifications about changes to their flight schedules due to weather conditions.
Shipment arrivals
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Community alerts
Residents in Goose Green receive SMS notifications about upcoming community meetings or events.
Tour bookings
Tourists in Port Howard receive SMS confirmations for their wildlife tour bookings and pickup details.
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SMS to Falkland Islands: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to the Falkland Islands?
How many SMS to the Falkland Islands does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Falkland Islands numbers for the API?
How does SMS work in remote areas?
What are peak SMS usage times?
Start sending to The Falkland Islands
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the Falkland Islands at $0.01817 per segment, from the console or with one API call.