# Canada 🇨🇦

## **Country Summary**

| **Country Name**              | Canada   |
| ----------------------------- | -------- |
| **Region**                    | Americas |
| **ISO**                       | CA       |
| **Dialing code**              | +1       |
| **MCC (Mobile country code)** | 302      |

## Sender ID Guidelines

### **Alphanumeric Sender ID**

<table><thead><tr><th width="247">Network (MCCMNC)</th><th>Features</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>All networks</td><td>Alphanumeric Sender IDs are not supported.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### **Numeric Sender ID**

<table><thead><tr><th width="239">Network (MCCMNC)</th><th>Features</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>All networks</td><td><ul><li>All SMS sent to Canada must originate from either a US or Canadian pre-approved long number, a CA short code, or a US or CA Toll Free number</li><li>Limited numeric sender only.</li><li>In the “from” field you need to specify your pre-approved Canadian (or US) virtual number in international format, for example, 18479121345.</li><li>Otherwise your message will get rejected with the API response code 15 Illegal Sender Address - rejected.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

### **Generic Sender ID**

<table><thead><tr><th width="226">Network (MCCMNC)</th><th>Features</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>All networks</td><td>Generic sender IDs such as INFO, SMS, NOTICE etc are prohibited.</td></tr></tbody></table>