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What is the limitation of 160 characters per message?
Most SMS messages have a limit of 160 characters. If an agent types a message that is more than 160 characters, then Genesys Cloud automatically breaks it into multiple SMS messages.
Can you send a text longer than 160 characters?
Yes. The maximum length of text message that you can send is 918 characters. However, if you send more than 160 characters then your message will be broken down in to chunks of 153 characters before being sent to the recipient’s handset. So a message of 420 characters will be sent and charged as three text messages.
What is the character limit for a text message?
160 characters
The maximum length of a text message is 160 characters as long as you use standard 7 bit characters. Once you use a character that is not in the 7 bit encoding list, your maximum number of characters in a text message drops to 70.
How do I get rid of SMS limit on Android?
Root the phone and remove or change the SMS sending limit: You can completely remove the SMS sending limit by rooting your phone using apps like KingoRoot and using an app like SMS Limit Unlock to remove or change limit.
What happens if you send a text over 160 characters?
When you send a SMS message over 160 characters, the message will be split. Large messages are segmented into 153 character segments and sent individually, then rebuilt by the recipient’s device.
How can I increase my SMS limit?
To avoid this limit, the easiest way is to install SMS Expansion Packs. There are 29 SMS Expansion Packs, each allowing Telerivet Gateway to send an additional 100 SMS messages per hour (on older versions of Android) or 30 SMS messages per 30 minutes (on newer versions of Android).
How can I send more than 100 messages per day?
As per the new order by TRAI, users will now be able to send more than 100 SMSs a day to any number as part of their prepaid plans. This means that Airtel, Jio, Vodafone-Idea, BSNL, and MTNL will soon have to add changes to their respective prepaid plans to remove the per day limit set for text messaging.