"Russia has an upper-middle income mixed economy with enormous natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas. It has the 12th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the 6th largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Since the turn of the 21st century, higher domestic consumption and greater political stability have bolstered economic growth in Russia." - Wikipedia.

1s2u's local direct connection is now live for Russia. This covers all Russian networks (under MCC 250) but excludes Kazakhstan and Abkhazia.

Russia is an extremely large SMS market and filters are in place. In many cases, even legitimate A2P traffic is blocked, and the so cheap signaling/roaming links do not deliver well, and using a direct connection is imperative.

We are using Adaptive Routing throughout Russia which will ensure several routes are constantly being tested and the optimum one will be used for your traffic. Therefore occasionally your traffic will be sent over non-direct backup routes to ensure delivery at times when the direct routes are experiencing issues.

Sender ID:  

Network Coverage Sender ID More Information
Rostelecom Pre-registration  
Don Telecom Overwritten  
Baykalvestkom Overwritten  
New Telephone Company Overwritten  
SMARTS Overwritten  
Altaysvyaz Overwritten  
AKOS Pre-registration  
Eniseytelekom (ETK) Pre-registration  
Extel (Bee Line) Pre-registration  
MegaFon Pre-registration  
Mobile TeleSystems Pre-registration  
MOTIV (Ekaterinburg 2000 GSM) Pre-registration  
Nizhny Novgorod Cellular Communications Pre-registration  
TELE2 Teleset Pre-registration  

Know more about types of Sender IDs here.

Regulations & Restrictions:

Besides our Service Usage Policy, we would like to emphasize the restrictions of the followings:

  • Social invites: Social invites are forbidden by the operators and so any traffic of this type is unlikely to be delivered.
  • Gambling: Gambling traffic is forbidden by the operators and so any traffic of this type is unlikely to be delivered.
  •  Spam filters: Operators may block message that contains an URL as those messages are frequently classified as spam and potentially virus-sending by them.

Note:  Kazakhstan and Abkhazia are not covered by our Russian routes. It is important to abide by all restrictions imposed by the hosted country.