A2P SMS Subscription

Updated quarterly.

Essential SMS intelligence from the #1 world-leading messaging market experts. Includes all the critical data and insight you need to future-proof your SMS strategy.

A2P SMS is, and will remain, the platform for business messaging for the foreseeable future, enabling rich messaging to complement its basic, but highly-effective use cases.

Published quarterly, our global A2P SMS data & market report subscription delivers a full view of the global messaging market for 2017-2029, with granular country-level data for 200 markets.

12 month subscription includes:

  • Unlimited on-demand access to our full SMS online data & forecasts for 200 countries (15M datapoints), updated quarterly
  • Quarterly data updates to reflect the fast-moving SMS market dynamics.
  • 4 x quarterly deep-dive SMS market reports
  • Added value content; SMS Healthcheck index monitoring fraud risk by market, A2P SMS termination rates overview, exclusivity ttracker & regulatory updates
  • 10 x user licences for your team

New data added for Q1 25 includes;

  • Updated SMS use case breakdowns. For the first time we mirror rich messaging use cases, to allow cross-channel messaging comparison.
  • SMS traffic lost to alternative channels split out by; RCS business messaging, WhatsApp Business (API & App), flash calling, mobile identity, and other channels.

  • Access to all Mobilesquared’s SMS historical and forecast data (15 million online data points / 75,000 datapoints per market), filter and download data on-demand
  • 4 x quarterly market reports with latest SMS market analysis
  • Country-level data for 200 markets, including total traffic/spend, fraud traffic/spend, breakdown by sector and use case, lost traffic and much more
  • Data split out by 850+ mobile operators and MVNOs
  • Forecasts to 2029
  • Our unique SMS Healthcheck index, revealing at-risk fraud markets
  • Latest A2P SMS termination rates & market analysis
  • Exclusivity Agreement tracker
  • Regulatory updates
  • 10 x user licences for your team

Data includes:

Historical data 2017 – 2024, plus forecasts 2025 – 2029.

Traffic splits:

• Total traffic / domestic traffic / international traffic

• White route traffic / grey route traffic

• Fraud traffic: AIT traffic / Smishing traffic / SIM farm traffic / other fraud traffic

• Traffic split by use case (authentication, marketing, services, utility)

• Use case traffic split by sector: Automotive / Broadcasters / Charity / Education / Enterprise software / Finance / Gambling / Healthcare / Internet streaming / Leisure & entertainment / Public services / Restaurants & fast-food / Retail & eCommerce / Social media & chat / Telecoms / Transport & logistics / Travel & tourism / Utilities / Other

• Lost traffic to: flash calling, RCS business messaging, WhatsApp (API & APP), mobile identity, all other channels)

• Harmless traffic / harmful traffic, total actual traffic / total lost traffic

• All key traffic types split out by 850 mobile operators and MVNOs

• AI insights on all A2P SMS data.

Spend

Our spend data is based on our traffic data, and follows the same splits as above. To achieve spend figures for each market, we apply the relevant A2P SMS domestic and international termination rates per market with aggregator mark-ups based on our ongoing market research. We also split out spend by value chain, by mobile operators and aggregators. We further split our spend by Annual Spend by Country, MNO, Source, Route, including wholesale, premium and direct.

Additional data

To provide you with the total mobile view, additional data includes:

SMS user data per market split by: total unique mobile users (UMUs) / total mobile subscriptions / opt-in users by market vertical / total users split out by device type: smartphone by OS/non-smartphone, businesses using SMS.

Markets covered: Top 200 global markets individually, including top 30 markets by spend; Afghanistan / Argentina / Australia / Bangladesh / Brazil / Canada / China / Egypt / Ethiopia / France / Germany / India / Indonesia / Italy / Mexico / Netherlands / Nigeria / Pakistan / Philippines / Russia / Saudi Arabia / Spain / Sri Lanka / Taiwan / Uganda / Ukraine / United Kingdom / USA / Uzbekistan / Vietnam

Market Overview / Market Analysis / Market forecasts: Traffic / Market Forecasts: Spend – Total View / Market Forecasts: Spend – Value Chain / A2P SMS traffic & spend by region, SMS Healthcheck, Exclusivity agreements tracker, the latest A2P SMS domestic and international termination rates.

Additional reports will cover Flash Calling, use case analysis, reports by sector.

Companies researched: In 2024/25, when updating our messaging data we received data and insight from >320 companies, including: 160 mobile operators and 150 aggregators, CSPs, vendors, hub providers, interconnect providers, regulators, firewall providers, and independent consultants. Companies that have helped our research, include:

A1 Slovenija / A1 Telekom Austria / 2Mobile / Adaptive Mobile / Aegis Mobile / Afghan Wireless / AI Cross / Alchemy / Anam / Andorra Telecom / Apprentice Valley / Arelion / AT&T / Bandwidth / Beep / Bell Mobility / Bharti AirTel / BH Telecom / BICS / Bouygues Telecom / BT/EE / Bulk SMS / Cequens / Cheetah Mobile / China Mobile International / China Telecom Global / Cisco / Claro Dominicana / Comcom / Commify / Comviva / de / Deutsche Telekom / Direqt / Enabld / Eir / Ethio Group / Ethio Telecom / Etisalat / Fonix Mobile / Global Point / GMS / Go4Mobility / Google / GTC / GTS / Gupshup / Haud / Hrvatski Telekom / Hutchison Drei Austria / Hutchison Group / iBasis / iConectiv / Infobip / Interop Technologies / iTouch Messaging / Kaleyra / Karix / Lanck Telecom / Libyana / LINK Mobility / LivePerson / m360 / Mavenir / MEF / MegaFon / Melita / MessageBird / Messagio / Meta / Millicom / Mitto / MMDSmart / MobiFone Telecommunication Corp. / Mobileum / Mobivity / Modica Group / Monty Mobile / Movitext / MTN / MTN Global Connect / MTN Irancell / MTN Nigeria / Neustar / Nova Iceland / Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia / O2 / Oi / OmanTel / Ooredoo / Openmind / Orange / Out There Media / Oxygen8 / Panacea Mobile / PCCW Global / Phronesis / PolkomTel / Quiubas Mobile / RD Com / RealNetworks / Reliance Communication / Route Mobile / Salesforce / Samsung / SFR / Sinch / SMS Highway / Softbank / Somos / Soprano / STC / Summit Tech / Sunrise / Swisscom / Synchronoss / Syniverse / Tatango / Tanla / Tata / Telecom Italia / Telefonica Group / Telefónica Móviles España / Telekom Slovenije / Telenor / Telesign / Telia / Telia Carrier / Telnyx / TelQ Telecom / Thales / Three / Three Ireland / TikTok / TI Sparkle / T-Mobile / T-Mobile US / Tomia Global / True Corporation / Tunisie Telecom / Turk Telekom International / Twilio / TWW / Tyntec / Uganda Telecom / Unifonic / Unitel / UnoTelos / US Cellular / Verizon / Viber / Vietnam posts and telecommunications group / VimpelCom / Vodafone / Vonage / Vovitel Communications / Vox / Wavecrest / Wavy / WhatsApp / WIND / WMC Global / XConnect / Zain / Zain Kuwait

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