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How Telco Pricing Works

Learn about Talkpush's Telco Pricing for WhatsApp, SMS, and Live Calls

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Written by Carolina Navarro
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Updated Feb, 2026

Talkpush Prepaid Telecommunication Services

Talkpush offers the option to activate telecommunication services to clients in most parts of the world. You can refer to the following service rates. These services must be purchased before their usage (prepaid plans).

Country

SMS Outbound (USD)

Voice rate (USD)

WhatsApp

Australia

0.061

0.198

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Austria

0.115

0.422

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Brazil

0.070

0.073

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Bulgaria

0.171

0.534

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Canada

0.020

0.168

Cost plus 8% surcharge

China

0.060

0.378

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Colombia

0.062

0.077

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Costa Rica

0.059

0.135

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Dominican Republic

0.111

0.151

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Denmark

0.065

0.056

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Egypt

0.446

0.206

Cost plus 8% surcharge

France

0.094

0.606

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Georgia

0.193

0.453

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Germany

0.126

0.414

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Greece

0.073

0.358

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Guatemala

0.285

0.272

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Hong Kong

0.083

0.054

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Honduras

0.279

0.275

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Hungary

0.107

0.374

Cost plus 8% surcharge

India

0.096

0.037

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Indonesia

0.103

0.148

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Jamaica

0.237

0.081

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Japan

0.058

0.067

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Jordan

0.155

0.295

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Kosovo

0.132

0.354

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Latvia

0.121

0.532

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Mexico

0.027

0.089

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Malaysia

0.121

0.165

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Nicaragua

0.130

0.410

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Netherlands

0.099

0.390

Cost plus 8% surcharge

New Zealand

0.062

0.152

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Panama

0.084

0.235

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Philippines

0.059

0.170

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Peru

0.072

0.224

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Poland

0.100

0.332

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Portugal

0.116

0.331

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Romania

0.103

0.363

Cost plus 8% surcharge

South Africa

0.201

0.230

Cost plus 8% surcharge

South Korea

0.052

0.040

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Spain

0.104

0.639

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Sweden

0.092

0.255

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Thailand

0.071

0.135

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Trinidad and Tobago

0.337

0.387

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Turkey

0.036

0.132

Cost plus 8% surcharge

United States

0.009 – 0.0154

0.104

Cost plus 8% surcharge

United Kingdom

0.062

1.153

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Uruguay

0.104

0.358

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Vietnam

0.219

0.152

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Morocco

0.258

0.917

Cost plus 8% surcharge

El Salvador

0.268

0.319

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Discount Rates for Bulk Purchases for SMS in USD

Country

Add 500K SMS

Add 1M SMS

Add 3M SMS

Australia

0.059

0.058

0.057

Austria

0.112

0.110

0.109

Brazil

0.069

0.067

0.067

Bulgaria

0.167

0.163

0.162

Canada

0.019

0.019

0.019

China

0.058

0.057

0.056

Colombia

0.060

0.059

0.058

Costa Rica

0.058

0.057

0.056

Dominican Republic

0.108

0.106

0.105

Denmark

0.063

0.062

0.061

Egypt

0.434

0.425

0.421

France

0.091

0.090

0.089

Georgia

0.187

0.184

0.182

Germany

0.123

0.120

0.119

Greece

0.071

0.070

0.069

Guatemala

0.277

0.272

0.269

Hong Kong

0.081

0.079

0.079

Honduras

0.271

0.266

0.263

Hungary

0.104

0.102

0.101

India

0.093

0.091

0.091

Indonesia

0.496

0.486

0.482

Jamaica

0.309

0.303

0.300

Japan

0.096

0.094

0.093

Jordan

0.426

0.417

0.413

Kosovo

0.242

0.238

0.235

Latvia

0.088

0.086

0.085

Morocco

0.251

0.246

0.244

Mexico

0.184

0.180

0.178

Malaysia

0.284

0.279

0.276

Nicaragua

0.140

0.137

0.136

Netherlands

0.133

0.130

0.129

New Zealand

0.120

0.118

0.117

Panama

0.198

0.194

0.192

Philippines

0.173

0.170

0.168

Peru

0.247

0.243

0.240

Poland

0.049

0.048

0.048

Portugal

0.057

0.056

0.056

Romania

0.084

0.083

0.082

South Africa

0.196

0.192

0.190

South Korea

0.057

0.055

0.055

Spain

0.100

0.098

0.097

Sweden

0.070

0.068

0.068

Thailand

0.035

0.034

0.034

Trinidad and Tobago

0.328

0.322

0.318

Turkey

0.035

0.034

0.034

United Kingdom

0.060

0.059

0.058

Uruguay

0.102

0.100

0.099

Vietnam

0.213

0.209

0.207

El Salvador

0.260

0.255

0.253

Note: These are estimated costs and can vary.

If you are interested in purchasing an SMS or voice minutes, please contact your Account Manager. You can also inquire about prices for countries not listed in the above tables.

Terminology

Definition

Condition

Message

Each SMS message contains 160 characters in length. If the message contains more than 160 characters, the SMS shall be segmented into multiple messages according to the local carrier segmentation criteria.

Messages are charged by unites of messages SENT.

  • Any SMS sent outside the country's vicinity will incur additional charges.

  • Any excess SMS units cannot be carried over upon renewal of your contract.

  • Additional long code has a $100 fee per long code per annum.

Voice call

Voice conversation with two endpoints in real-time.

Voice fees are based on EFFECTIVE MINUTES used.

  • Any calls made outside the country's vicinity will incur additional charges.

  • Any excess SMS units cannot be carried over upon contract renewal.

  • Additional long code has a $50 fee per long code per annum

Some considerations:

  • Your Account Manager will be in charge of invoicing the charges of your Telco Plan.

  • Your Account Manager will notify you once you've consumed 50% of your prepaid credits.

  • The charges above are applied for usage within the country. Any charges incurred outside the country will be charged in accordance with the standard pricing.

  • WhatsApp Messages are counted by the Total number of messages (received, sent, template, all messages in WhatsApp).

  • Once an account has replenished its SMS credits (after reaching the credit limit), Talkpush does not retry sending the pending SMS (resulting from when the account had no SMS credits remaining). This is to avoid the sudden charges upon credit limit replenishment.

  • The maximum SMS body length is 140 bytes, which equates to 160 GSM-encoded characters (7 bits each) or 70 unicode-encoded characters (2 bytes each). If you are seeing a maximum message length of only 70 characters, this is an indication that you are requesting unicode encoding. The majority of accented French characters are included in the GSM character set. If you are sending in a Western European language we would recommend forcing the message body type to text (that is, not including the &type=unicode in your API request).


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