Below are carrier surcharge fees per message. Surcharges are additional fees on top of your “base” message delivery rates. Carrier fees, where applicable, are charged per message segment. Aerialink passes such fees through to our customers. The tables below are categorized by route type, message type and whether the fees are applied by-carrier, or by-country.

Long Code - U.S. & Canada

Surcharges by Carrier via +1 Originating Number

The following carriers support higher A2P send rates of greater than 1 message per second but have not provided details on specific capacity or limitation at this time. Until all carriers support A2P capacity, we recommend that Aerialink customers adhere to using the lowest common denominator throughput rate of 1 message per second across all carriers in the destination countries of U.S. and Canada.

Updated 10/28/2024

Long Code SMS - International

Surcharges by Country via +1 Originating Number

The carrier-imposed surcharge fees and credits in the table below apply only to originating codes/numbers with a +1 country code, configured to a route which enables the delivery of messages to the destinations in the table below. Refer to your routing configuration and assigned rates for details. These surcharges are passed through from surcharge carriers to Aerialink customers after all applicable fees (including currency exchanges) have been applied.

When leasing a long code from Aerialink, customers may choose between default and surcharge-enabled routes for their +1-originated long codes. A customer may have any combination of these code types within their account.

• Default Codes can deliver successfully to +1 destinations and countries without surcharge fees. If a message is sent from a Default Code to a surcharge-imposing country it will be blocked and no surcharge fees will be applied.
• Surcharge-Enabled Codes support messaging to all countries in our reach list, and will be billed accordingly for the surcharge rates of destination countries as-applicable. All messages sent to surcharge countries via surcharge-enabled long codes will be charged the appropriate surcharge fees.

Messaging traffic to +1 destinations will always be subject to those related surcharges regardless of whether the code is configured for surcharge or non-surcharge reach. The only exception to this is for 8XX numbers terminating to U.S. destinations. Please see the table below for more details. For more information about 8XX reach, see the 8XX tab in the reach list downloadable here.

Aerialink updates this page monthly based on the latest information from international operators and carrier hubs. Some of these destinations will provide a credit for inbound “return” messages if there is a corresponding outbound message (see the inbound credit column). For a complete reach list of countries and carriers around the world (regardless of surcharge status), see our Delivery Reach article.

Effective Date 7/15/2022

Toll-Free - U.S. & Canada

Surcharges via Toll-Free Originating Number

Short Code - U.S.

Surcharges by Carrier via Short Code

All dedicated short codes incur a minimum surcharge fee of $0.0015 USD per outbound (MT) message to all carriers. Some carriers apply higher surcharge rates. See the table below for more details.

* Includes MetroPCS
** Refers to a group of carriers rather than a single entity

Carrier Surcharge Passthrough Fee

Carrier surcharge fees will be passed through to customers at the same rate charged to Aerialink by the carrier. Customers agree to pay these charges. Pass-through fees may change from time to time.

Short Code - Canada

Surcharges by Carrier via Short Code

* Formerly WIND

Canadian carrier passthrough fees can be found here.

Short Code FTEU Passthrough Fees

For details about what constitutes an FTEU program, see the check out our glossary entry about FTEU (Free to End-User) programs.

Note: Carrier fees are subject to change.