International SMS can be sent to any country in the world, largely thanks to the packages offered by mobile network operators. Other solutions, particularly web-based ones, also exist for sending text messages to foreign destinations. Most of these online services are accessible for any budget, as their attractive pricing allows for cost-effective bulk messaging.

International SMS: via online messaging platforms

Use professional SMS platforms, a reliable and secure service for both your marketing needs and improving your customer service. Octopush is one of the simplest and most reliable platforms for sending SMS online to your customers' and prospects' mobile phones. Its user-friendly interface allows professionals to directly manage all their professional SMS campaign operations by offering an accessible service.

Octopush offers text credits for international SMS delivery. You can build your international SMS campaigns in just a few clicks and send them over monitored global networks, all while benefiting from competitive rates to any destination.

Sending international SMS with Octopush

Octopush is a platform that provides a professional service allowing you to send bulk text messages to any destination. After registering on the website, log in, purchase the number of text credits that suits your needs, and run your marketing campaign directly from the dedicated web interface. Several mobile text packs are available with sliding-scale pricing based on your requirements. Furthermore, your credits have no expiration date and can be used at any time with no volume limits.

Each of your text messages is sent securely and reliably. With Octopush, you can:

• Create personalized mobile text messages and customize the sender ID.
• Send a text message to every number on your mailing list.
• Receive and manage all text message replies in real time.
• Automate text message delivery via email.
• Integrate text messaging into software or a website using an API.

Octopush gives you 5 free text messages to test the platform's features before you decide.

Sending international text messages via mobile apps

Mobile apps offer the advantage of letting you send unlimited free international text messages using a Wi-Fi connection or a 3G/4G network, such as WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, or Messenger. In addition to making calls and sending international texts, you can also send files, photos, and videos to any subscribed number.

Sending international text messages from websites

There are websites that allow you to send international text messages through attractive subscription plans.

Web browsers also offer extensions for sending unlimited free text messages both domestically and internationally. For example, the downloadable Firefox extension Free Texto Gratis allows you to send international SMS without a contract.

Sending international text messages via an API

The SMS API offered by professional platforms allows you to automate all types of text message dispatches from your internal management system, your website, and more.

Easy to install, theOctopush SMS API can be used and installed in the environment of your choice (PHP, Java, VBA, etc.). A demonstration and user tutorial is available on the website. Communicate with your customers and prospects automatically from your own tools while benefiting from the features and services offered by Octopush.

International texting: using a mobile carrier plan

Mobile phone carriers offer plans for calling and sending SMS to all destinations.

Mobile carriers now offer the ability to call from or to any destination using a mobile plan tailored to your needs. Today, there are comprehensive plans that, for the most part, offer dozens or even hundreds of destinations with unlimited access at no extra cost.

More and more carriers are offering plans for unlimited international calls and/or SMS to certain destinations. It is therefore important to understand your needs and compare the different offers:

• Orange offers a high-end "Origami Jet" subscription. It is available in attractively priced plans with a 12 to 24-month commitment. It allows for unlimited calls, texts, and MMS to France, the French overseas territories, Europe, the United States, and Canada. Another subscription is specifically dedicated to professionals and allows for unlimited calls and SMS/MMS to any mobile in the USA, Canada, and Europe.
• SFR has several plans that include calls to all destinations. Each includes unlimited communications, texts, and MMS to 100 landline and mobile destinations, as well as your data allowance.
• Bouygues Telecom France offers plans that include unlimited international calls to 120 landline and mobile destinations. Some of these subscriptions also offer unlimited texting and calling while traveling throughout Europe and the French overseas territories back to France, while also including a certain volume of data.

No-contract carriers are also growing. These low-cost mobile carriers offer international calling and texting in their plans at attractive prices:

• Sosh: you have access to unlimited texting while traveling in over 60 European countries and the French overseas territories.
• B&YOU: you benefit from unlimited SMS and calls to over 120 landline destinations, as well as any mobile in the USA, Canada, and China. The World & You app allows you to make unlimited calls from any destination to the French overseas territories and France when connected to a Wi-Fi network.
• SFR RED: the carrier provides unlimited communications from all destinations to over 52 landline destinations and to the USA and Canada (mobile). The carrier offers paid options that you can easily subscribe to online if you wish to call France or connect to the web while traveling abroad.
• Free Mobile offers contract-free plans at attractive rates for all types of international communication. Their entry-level plan starts at €2, or is free for Freebox subscribers, and includes calls to 100 landline destinations, including mobile phones in North America and the French overseas territories. The operator also offers a paid add-on that provides unlimited SMS, MMS, and calls abroad for 35 days per year.
• Virgin Mobile offers unlimited plans to various destinations. Two subscription options are available, featuring unlimited calls to 67 international destinations, as well as unlimited calls, SMS, and MMS.

Last updated: February 19, 2016

International SMS: use Octopush!

Octopush's premium SMS solution is the ideal way to send text messages to mobile phones abroad. Made possible through numerous partnerships with international mobile operators, it is a comprehensive service. You can take advantage of all the features offered by the platform to send your SMS to a wide audience on their mobile devices.