A quick operational read on Venezuela. Anything marked route-dependent is decided by the supplier and operator path your traffic uses. Anything marked law applies whichever supplier you pick.
- SMS to mobile
Carrier or route policy- Supported on selected contracted A2P routes
- Number format
Law / regulation- +58 followed by the ten national digits; the domestic trunk zero is removed when normalising to E.164
- Country code and MCC
Law / regulation- Country code 58, mobile country code 734, national significant number ten digits
- Number validation
Flowstates recommendation- Confirm the destination is Venezuelan, messaging-capable mobile before sending
- New mobile range
Law / regulation- CONATEL introduced national destination code 422, assigned to Corporación Digitel, with effect from 7 February 2025
- Standard consumer mobile ranges
Law / regulation- National destination codes 412, 414, 416, 422, 424 and 426 carry standard consumer mobile numbers
- Mobile satellite range
Law / regulation- The 415 range is allocated to Globalstar mobile satellite service rather than to a terrestrial mobile network
- 415 handling
Flowstates recommendation- Validate 415 destinations separately; do not assume terrestrial A2P mobile delivery for them
- Number portability
Carrier or route policy- Twilio marks number portability as unavailable on its current Venezuela route
- Portability re-check
Flowstates recommendation- No active nationwide portability service was identified in the sources reviewed; re-check before launch and before relying on any NDC or operator mapping
- Visible sender presentation
Carrier or route policy- Route-assigned, preserved or replaced according to the selected provider and operator path
- Alphanumeric sender
Carrier or route policy- On one major provider's current route, a registered alphanumeric sender is preserved only towards Digitel; other paths overwrite it
- Sender rewriting
Carrier or route policy- Unregistered senders can be replaced with a route-assigned or randomised number outside your control
- International numeric sender
Carrier or route policy- Not preserved and rewritten on Twilio's current Venezuela route
- Domestic long code
Carrier or route policy- Unsupported on Twilio's current Venezuela route
- Dedicated or local short code
Carrier or route policy- Operator-capable in Venezuela, but not offered by Twilio's current service
- Sender confirmation
Flowstates recommendation- Confirm the actual visible sender, per operator path, before launch
- Two-way SMS
Carrier or route policy- One-way only on that provider's current Venezuela route; two-way SMS is not supported
- Inbound programmes
Flowstates recommendation- Treat replies, STOP handling by reply and any inbound requirement as unavailable until explicitly confirmed and tested on the path you buy
- Concatenation
Carrier or route policy- Not supported on that provider's current Venezuela route
- Message length
Flowstates recommendation- Design for a single segment; long copy can be truncated or split unpredictably where concatenation is unavailable
- Unicode / UCS-2
Carrier or route policy- Support varies by sender and operator path on that provider's route, and the Movistar path carries a risk of accented characters being flattened
- Encoding validation
Flowstates recommendation- Test your real Spanish copy, and its real segment count, on the exact route before launch
- MMS
Carrier or route policy- That provider converts MMS into an SMS containing a URL
- Constitutional privacy duties
Law / regulation- Constitution articles 28, 48 and 60 cover access to and rectification of personal data, secrecy of private communications, and limits on the use of information technology
- Consumer information
Law / regulation- Constitution article 117 recognises a right to adequate and non-deceptive information about goods and services
- Permission standard
Flowstates recommendation- Send promotional SMS only on prior express permission that is clear, specific, recorded and evidenceable
- Opt-out standard
Flowstates recommendation- Offer a free and simple opt-out that does not depend on a reply
- Suppression standard
Flowstates recommendation- Honour every opt-out with immediate suppression across every sending system and list
- Contact timing standard
Flowstates recommendation- Send promotional traffic in recipient-local daytime hours as our own operating standard
- Last reviewed
Flowstates recommendation- 1 August 2026