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Antonis
Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 10:20 am:   

Hi All,

Could you please inform me on the SMS length table?

For example 1 SMS = 160 chars
2 SMS = ?
3 SMS = ?

and also please let me know if in thos 160 characters ant headers are included or is it 160 characters in total for 1 single message

Thanks in advance
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 378
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 06:38 pm:   

Hi Antonis,

I think you will find the following post helpful in explaining all of the details:

http://blog.nowsms.com/2007/06/long-sms-text-messages-and-160.html

As long as you use only characters in the 7-bit GSM character set (see http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/1103.html), then the following limits would apply:

1 SMS = 160 chars
2 SMS = 306 chars (153 x 2)
3 SMS = 459 chars (153 x 3)

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Des
NowSMS Support
Antonis
New member
Username: Gowo2008

Post Number: 2
Registered: 04-2008
Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 07:04 am:   

Thank you my friend for the help