So, I was idling around here in the alleged high-tech world (in practice: in a windowless meeting room in Canada), and I was wondering about the cell phone coverage in Central Asia....
Well... here we go.
Seems things are pretty good in Iran: MCI appears to cover all the main areas, city & transportation routes (MCI is the one with the largest roaming agreements, at least based on the GSMA website). There's also other operators, but with more limited coverage or roaming agreements.
On the other hand, not much coverage in Turkmenistan at the moment, it seems. MTS has plenty of roaming agreements but just 3 coverage spots in the country. A second network from another operators is reported to be in the making.
Uzbekistan has 3 operators all of them with quite good coverage along the main routes & cities.
(Needless to say, this covers GSM - if you wander the world with a satellite phone it's not even fair)
(written in Montreal)
1 commenti:
Have you checked if there is internet connection along the itinerary?
If not this blog is DEAD ON ARRIVAL!
Sergey Brin
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