BUT…it is only for visitors, residents from abroad!!! Seriously…so the 1million N.Koreans who are using their mobiles won’t have access to this service…! Am so glad I don’t live there!!!
"**North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
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Egyptian telecoms firm Orascom, which is a partner in Koryolink, estimates that more than 1 million North Koreans use mobile phones.
They will not be able to use the new service, according to reports.
Orascom launched a 3G phone network inside North Korea in 2008, but users can only use it to make phone calls. International calls, including calls to South Korea, are banned.
In January 2013 the government began allowing foreign visitors to bring their own mobile devices into the country with them for the first time."
N. Korea doesnt even have DSL internet. You have to have a valid reason to get an internet connection, before you are assigned one, (like a govt employee at a high level) and even then it is censored beyond belief. Students get internet at their universities, but the sites they can visit are shrunk to a small list.
Orascom own Mobilink in Pakistan too I believe. Why on earth would anyone invest in NK. :-s (I’m sure there is a rational commercial explanation but still… arrgh)
I’ll be missing out on so much fun..and meeting all you funny ppl here…