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Opportunities and limitations - Canada
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Overview
Canada has very specific messaging restrictions and a direct connection is necessary to ensure message delivery to the many networks. SureSMS uses an extremely high quality direct connection to deliver your SMS to Canada.
Sender
All SMS messages sent to Canada must originate from either a US or Canadian pre-authorized long number associated with your SureSMS API account. Alpha sender pages are not supported.
Limited numeric sender only. In the "from" field, you must enter your pre-authorized Canadian (or US) virtual number in international format, e.g. 18479121345. Otherwise, your message will be rejected with the API response code Illegal sender address - rejected.
You can purchase pre-authorized long virtual numbers by writing to [email protected].
Contents
P2P: Person-to-person traffic can be sent to Canada from a long virtual number using the SMS API. SMS can come from a mobile phone, a computer application or an internet-based service, but the message must be initiated by human interaction.
A2P: Application-to-Person (A2P) traffic can be sent to Canada using Short Code.
The traffic must not
Related to drugs, marijuana, steroids or other controlled substances, drug paraphernalia, ammunition, firearms, adult-oriented content or services
Involve real estate purchases, annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking, or transactions to finance or refinance debt funded by a credit card
Offering goods for sale before the sender has control or possession of the goods
Offer traveler's checks or money orders, currency exchange or check cashing for sale
Providing credit repair or debt relief
Incoming numbers
Nothing to note
Delivery receipts
All carriers send handset delivery receipts except Eastlink.
Other features and restrictions
Nothing to note.