====== SMS templating ====== In connection with the transition of the mobile operator OOO "COSCOM" "Ucell" to the **A2P platform**, it is necessary to provide all the SMS templates that you send to your customers for further registration on the **A2P platform "Ucell"**.\\ \\ All SMS texts will be filtered according to the templates provided by you, if the text does not match the template, SMS will be charged as **advertising**, according to the new tariffs that came into force on **August 1, 2022.** \\ Required for review:\\ [[en:usefull_information:templates|Memo on drawing up templates for Ucell]] ====== Parts of SMS ====== **Dear partner!**\\ We inform you that messages are divided into parts depending on the number of characters and encoding. GSM encoding (Latin, 7 bit) and Unicode (Cyrillic, extended character set). Up to 160 characters in GSM encoding will be counted as 1 SMS, up to 306 characters 2 SMS, up to 459 characters 3 SMS. Unicode encoding up to 70 characters 1 SMS, up to 134 characters 2 SMS, up to 201 characters 3 SMS. If there is at least one character that is not related to GSM encoding, the SMS message will be sent in Unicode encoding.\\ **Frequently used characters not included in GSM encoding:**\\ ’ “ ” — `. They can be replaced with the characters ' " " – ', these characters are included in the GSM encoding. It should also be borne in mind that in GSM-7 encoding there are several characters that are counted as two characters when calculating the length of SMS, below is a table of such characters: ^ { } \ [ ~ ] | € We kindly ask you with ost\\ For more information, go to the links