SMS API for Faroe Islands: bulk SMS to +298 numbers
Faroe Islands
Calling code +298
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00677
- Messages for $100
- 14,771
- Local language
- Danish
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to the Faroe Islands costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00677 | $0.01354 |
| 1,000 | $6.77 | $13.54 |
| 10,000 | $67.70 | $135.40 |
| 100,000 | $677.00 | $1,354.00 |
Number format in Faroe Islands
Mobile numbers in the Faroe Islands have 6 digits after +298 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 21 12 34 becomes +298 21 12 34 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Danish text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to the Faroe 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 Faroe Islands changes its clocks: Faroe is on UTC+0 in January and UTC+1 in July. 09:00 in Faroe is 09:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +00:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Faroe Islands with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (FO) 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": "+298211234", "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: "+298211234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00677", country: "FO"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+298211234", "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"]) # "0.00677"What developers send to the Faroe Islands
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SMS to Faroe 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 Faroe Islands?
How many SMS to the Faroe Islands does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Faroe Islands numbers for the API?
How does SMS work in remote areas?
What are peak SMS usage times?
Start sending to The Faroe Islands
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the Faroe Islands at $0.00677 per segment, from the console or with one API call.