RCS countries & availability

Where RCS is available

RCS needs an operator in each market, so it isn't everywhere: the list grows country by country as we open coverage.

RCS is currently available in 27 countries. In each of them your agent is registered for that country; the second column says whether the market asks for anything on top of that registration.

Country	ISO	Prefix	Beyond the agent registration
🇦🇹 Austria	AT	+43	Content in the local language · Authorisation letter
🇧🇷 Brazil	BR	+55	Brand verification by a third party
🇨🇦 Canada	CA	+1	Proof of consent · Authorisation letter
🇨🇴 Colombia	CO	+57	Content in the local language
🇨🇿 Czechia	CZ	+420	Nothing else
🇩🇰 Denmark	DK	+45	Nothing else
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	DO	+1	Nothing else
🇫🇷 France	FR	+33	A public inbox somebody watches
🇩🇪 Germany	DE	+49	Content in the local language · Authorisation letter
🇬🇷 Greece	GR	+30	Nothing else
🇬🇹 Guatemala	GT	+502	Nothing else
🇮🇳 India	IN	+91	Proof of consent · Keyword opt-out · Brand verification by a third party
🇮🇩 Indonesia	ID	+62	Local legal entity
🇮🇹 Italy	IT	+39	Nothing else
🇲🇽 Mexico	MX	+52	Content in the local language · Keyword opt-out
🇳🇱 Netherlands	NL	+31	Email to the operator
🇳🇬 Nigeria	NG	+234	Nothing else
🇳🇴 Norway	NO	+47	Nothing else
🇵🇪 Peru	PE	+51	Proof of consent
🇵🇱 Poland	PL	+48	Nothing else
🇸🇬 Singapore	SG	+65	Local legal entity · Authorisation letter
🇸🇰 Slovakia	SK	+421	Nothing else
🇪🇸 Spain	ES	+34	Registration with a regulator
🇸🇪 Sweden	SE	+46	Nothing else
🇺🇦 Ukraine	UA	+380	Local legal entity
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	GB	+44	Brand verification by a third party · Email to the operator · A public inbox somebody watches
🇺🇸 United States	US	+1	Authorisation letter

What each of these requirements involves is explained in What RCS registration may ask for.

Being on this list is not the same as being able to send. Every country still needs its own approved agent: until yours is approved there, RCS messages don't go out to that destination. What your contacts receive then depends on the send — with SMS fallback enabled they get it as an SMS, and without it they get nothing at all. Your panel is the only place that answers this for your own sender, country by country.

For every other destination, and for what happens on SMS, the Countries & regulation table shows both channels side by side.

How it works

RCS is rolling out gradually. Two things decide whether a message goes out as RCS: the country it's available in, and whether each contact's phone can receive it. This page explains both, and where to see your reachable audience.

Is RCS enabled for your project

SMS is always available, and RCS sits alongside it. To begin sending RCS, you first create your sender. Then you register and approve the RCS agent in each country where you want to operate. Until the agent is approved in a country, you can't send RCS messages to that destination. Once the agent is approved, RCS becomes available for that project and that country. See RCS senders & verification to register yours.

Who can receive RCS

A contact receives RCS when their phone and messaging app support it, in a country where your agent is approved. Instasent tracks this per contact, so each one is one of:

• Supported — confirmed able to receive RCS.
• Not supported — confirmed unable; they'll get the SMS fallback instead.
• Unknown — not yet determined.

Supported contacts receive your message as RCS. For Not supported and Unknown contacts, if fallback is enabled, delivery is attempted by SMS, which is billed under the SMS channel's conditions; how each case is charged is detailed in SMS fallback.

See how many contacts are reachable

When you pick the audience for a campaign or automation, the summary shows a Breakdown by RCS support — how many contacts are Supported, Not supported or Unknown — alongside the Available audience for RCS + SMS. This tells you, before you send, how much of your audience RCS will reach directly.

To set up the sender that lets you send in a country, see RCS senders & verification.