SMS API for Namibia: bulk SMS to +264 numbers
Namibia
Calling code +264
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00927
- Messages for $100
- 10,787
- Local language
- English and Afrikaans
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Namibia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00927 | $0.01854 |
| 1,000 | $9.27 | $18.54 |
| 10,000 | $92.70 | $185.40 |
| 100,000 | $927.00 | $1,854.00 |
Number format in Namibia
Mobile numbers in Namibia have 9 digits after +264. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (081 123 4567); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +264 81 123 4567.
Alphabet and segments
English and Afrikaans text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Namibia 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
Namibia keeps UTC+2 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Windhoek is always 07:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Namibia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (NA) 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": "+264811234567", "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: "+264811234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00927", country: "NA"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+264811234567", "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"]) # "0.00927"What developers send to Namibia
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SMS to Namibia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Namibia?
How many SMS to Namibia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Namibia numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be sent in?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Namibia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Namibia at $0.00927 per segment, from the console or with one API call.