What are the restrictions when sending messages to Dubai?

When sending messages to international destinations text messages can be subject of local restrictions/filtering imposed both at government and local network levels. Unfortunately we cannot influence these decisions so in order to maximise the potential of a successful delivery please follow the regulations. We have listed known restrictions per country but please note that these are not exhaustive and can change as new restrictions are applied – in most cases the local networks do not make notification of changes, we will update restrictions as and when they become known to us.

Delivery Receipts are not supported on Etisalat. For transactional messaging originators will be overwritten with a short code and for marketing messages a formal request is required.