Use cases: A2P SMS termination, transactional and bulk messaging.
Authentication: Token.
IP security: Source IP whitelisting not required.
Host and port: contact support or your account manager.
Message concatenation: enabled by default. (limits message part to 153 for GSM-7 coded messages and 63 charchters for Unicode non GSM-7 bit coded messages due to SMS protocols. )
Key Features
๐ฉ Send SMS messages via API
๐ Scaleable and high throughput
Message length and encoding
A single SMS can carry 140 octets. Since each octet is 8 bits, this gives 140 x 8 = 1120 bits. Using GSM-7 encoding, which packs 7 bits per character, the total number of characters per SMS is 1120 รท 7 = 160 characters..