Where the Benbria Messaging Credit system and Fair Use Policy reference SMS Texting Zones 1-5, these zones are defined below.

A SMS (Short Message Service or 'Texting') message is classified into an SMS Zone (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) based on the country of the device the message is sent to (for Mobile-Terminate or MT messages) to or received from (for Mobile-Originated or MO messages). Benbria has five SMS Zones:

The following are the specific countries included in each region above. Uncategorized countries follow.

SMS1: SMS Text Message, Zone 1

• Canada (CA)
• United States of America (US)
• Virgin Islands, U.S. (VI)

SMS2: SMS Text Message, Zone 2

• Andorra (AD)
• Antigua and Barbuda (AG)
• Aruba (AW)
• Bahamas (BS)
• Bahrain (BH)
• Belize (BZ)
• Brunei Darussalam (BN)
• Burkina Faso (BF)
• Burundi (BI)
• Cambodia (KH)
• Central African Republic (CF)
• Congo (CG)
• Djibouti (DJ)
• El Salvador (SV)
• Equatorial Guinea (GQ)
• Faroe Islands (FO)
• French Polynesia (PF)
• Gabon (GA)
• Gambia (GM)
• Georgia (GE)
• Gibraltar (GI)
• Guam (GU)
• Guinea (GN)
• Haiti (HT)
• India (IN)
• Indonesia (ID)
• Iran, Islamic Republic of (IR)
• Israel (IL)
• Jordan (JO)
• Kazakhstan (KZ)
• Kenya (KE)
• Kuwait (KW)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic (LA)
• Latvia (LV)
• Lesotho (LS)
• Liechtenstein (LI)
• Lithuania (LT)
• Luxembourg (LU)
• Macao (MO)
• Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of (MK)
• Maldives (MV)
• Mozambique (MZ)
• Nigeria (NG)
• Niue (NU)
• Pakistan (PK)
• Paraguay (PY)
• Philippines (PH)
• Romania (RO)
• Russian Federation (RU)
• Saint Lucia (LC)
• Serbia (RS)
• Seychelles (SC)
• Singapore (SG)
• Slovenia (SI)
• South Sudan (SS)
• Suriname (SR)
• Tajikistan (TJ)
• Thailand (TH)
• Trinidad and Tobago (TT)
• Zimbabwe (ZW)

SMS3: SMS Text Message, Zone 3

• Afghanistan (AF)
• Angola (AO)
• Anguilla (AI)
• Armenia (AM)
• Azerbaijan (AZ)
• Barbados (BB)
• Belarus (BY)
• Benin (BJ)
• Bermuda (BM)
• Bhutan (BT)
• Bolivia, Plurinational State of (BO)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)
• Botswana (BW)
• Cabo Verde (CV)
• Cayman Islands (KY)
• Chad (TD)
• China (CN)
• Comoros (KM)
• Congo, the Democratic Republic of the (CD)
• Cook Islands (CK)
• Costa Rica (CR)
• Côte d'Ivoire (CI)
• Croatia (HR)
• Cuba (CU)
• Cyprus (CY)
• Czechia (CZ)
• Denmark (DK)
• Dominica (DM)
• Estonia (EE)
• Ethiopia (ET)
• Fiji (FJ)
• Ghana (GH)
• Greenland (GL)
• Grenada (GD)
• Guatemala (GT)
• Guernsey (GG)
• Guyana (GY)
• Honduras (HN)
• Hong Kong (HK)
• Iceland (IS)
• Iraq (IQ)
• Isle of Man (IM)
• Jamaica (JM)
• Jersey (JE)
• Korea, Republic of (KR)
• Kyrgyzstan (KG)
• Lebanon (LB)
• Libya (LY)
• Madagascar (MG)
• Malawi (MW)
• Malaysia (MY)
• Malta (MT)
• Martinique (MQ)
• Mauritania (MR)
• Mauritius (MU)
• Mexico (MX)
• Moldova, Republic of (MD)
• Mongolia (MN)
• Montenegro (ME)
• Montserrat (MS)
• Namibia (NA)
• Nepal (NP)
• Nicaragua (NI)
• Niger (NE)
• Norfolk Island (NF)
• Oman (OM)
• Panama (PA)
• Papua New Guinea (PG)
• Peru (PE)
• Poland (PL)
• Portugal (PT)
• Rwanda (RW)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC)
• Samoa (WS)
• Saudi Arabia (SA)
• Senegal (SN)
• Sierra Leone (SL)
• Slovakia (SK)
• Somalia (SO)
• South Africa (ZA)
• Sri Lanka (LK)
• Sudan (SD)
• Switzerland (CH)
• Tanzania, United Republic of (TZ)
• Togo (TG)
• Tonga (TO)
• Tunisia (TN)
• Turkey (TR)
• Turkmenistan (TM)
• Turks and Caicos Islands (TC)
• Uganda (UG)
• United Arab Emirates (AE)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB)
• Uruguay (UY)
• Vanuatu (VU)
• Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (VE)
• Virgin Islands, British (VG)
• Yemen (YE)
• Zambia (ZM)

SMS4: SMS Text Message, Zone 4

• Albania (AL)
• Algeria (DZ)
• American Samoa (AS)
• Argentina (AR)
• Australia (AU)
• Bangladesh (BD)
• Brazil (BR)
• Bulgaria (BG)
• Cameroon (CM)
• Chile (CL)
• Christmas Island (CX)
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CC)
• Colombia (CO)
• Dominican Republic (DO)
• Ecuador (EC)
• Egypt (EG)
• Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (FK)
• France (FR)
• Greece (GR)
• Guadeloupe (GP)
• Guinea-Bissau (GW)
• Hungary (HU)
• Ireland (IE)
• Italy (IT)
• Japan (JP)
• Liberia (LR)
• Micronesia, Federated States of (FM)
• Morocco (MA)
• Myanmar (MM)
• Norway (NO)
• Palau (PW)
• Palestine, State of (PS)
• Puerto Rico (PR)
• Qatar (QA)
• San Marino (SM)
• Solomon Islands (SB)
• Spain (ES)
• Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ)
• Swaziland (SZ)
• Sweden (SE)
• Syrian Arab Republic (SY)
• Taiwan, Province of China (TW)
• Ukraine (UA)
• Uzbekistan (UZ)
• Viet Nam (VN)
• Western Sahara (EH)

SMS5: SMS Text Message, Zone 5

• Åland Islands (AX)
• Antarctica (AQ)
• Austria (AT)
• Belgium (BE)
• Eritrea (ER)
• Finland (FI)
• French Guiana (GF)
• French Southern Territories (TF)
• Germany (DE)
• Mali (ML)
• Marshall Islands (MH)
• Mayotte (YT)
• Monaco (MC)
• Netherlands (NL)
• New Caledonia (NC)
• New Zealand (NZ)
• Réunion (RE)
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM)
• Sao Tome and Principe (ST)
• Timor-Leste (TL)

Uncategorized:

To inquire about an uncategorized country, please contact Benbria support:

• Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (BQ)
• Bouvet Island (BV)
• British Indian Ocean Territory (IO)
• Curaçao (CW)
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HM)
• Holy See (VA)
• Kiribati (KI)
• Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (KP)
• Nauru (NR)
• Northern Mariana Islands (MP)
• Pitcairn (PN)
• Saint Barthélemy (BL)
• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (SH)
• Saint Martin (French part) (MF)
• Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (SX)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GS)
• Tokelau (TK)
• Tuvalu (TV)
• United States Minor Outlying Islands (UM)
• Wallis and Futuna (WF)