Armenia
Power & telecom standards in Armenia
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Armenia. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Armenia for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Armenia uses 220V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type C, F and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Tempest Telecom provided local dial-up access numbers in Armenia at $0.155/minute. Travelers could connect using any standard modem with an RJ-11 telephone adapter.
WiFi Hotspot Access
Tempest Telecom provided WiFi hotspot access in Armenia at $19.95/day for unlimited browsing.
Adapters & Power
Travelers from North America will need a power plug adapter. European Type C/F adapters are widely compatible.
Standard RJ-11 jacks are used. Most international modems will connect without an adapter.
Armenia at a Glance
- Capital
- Yerevan
- Phone Code
- +374
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, F
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Dram
- Dial-up
- $0.155/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Armenia
Armenia uses 220V/50Hz with Type C and Type F outlets. The phone jack is RJ-11. The Armenian telecom sector is dominated by Team Telecom Armenia (the post-Beeline rebrand) and Ucom. The post-Soviet sector reorganized through the 1990s and 2000s.
Armenian commercial Internet emerged in 1994-1995 through the academic ArmenTel and limited private ISPs. Per-minute metered dial-up dominated the late 1990s. The 1994 ceasefire ended the active phase of the Nagorno-Karabakh war with Azerbaijan but left a frozen-conflict environment that shaped subsequent infrastructure investment. Mobile data dominates current Internet access; FTTH from Ucom is well-developed in Yerevan.
The Armenian prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s and 2010s served the very large Armenian diaspora — the global Armenian community (~8-10 million people, several times the resident population) is concentrated in Russia, the United States (Glendale California hosts one of the largest Armenian populations outside Armenia, plus communities in Massachusetts, NJ/NY), France (Paris and Marseille), Lebanon, and Argentina.
Tempest Telecom served Armenia through dial-up POPs in Yerevan. Iridium satphones served the post-1988-earthquake reconstruction customer base, Caucasus mountain expedition operators, archaeological research operators across the Mount Ararat region, and humanitarian operators during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict periods.
Modern Armenia has expanding 4G LTE coverage and FTTH concentrated in Yerevan. The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and subsequent regional tensions have shaped infrastructure investment patterns.
Tempest's services across Armenia, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Armenia between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Armenia drew from the same balance for pre-paid international voice calling, RADIUS-authenticated dial-up Internet roaming, metered Wi-Fi hotspot access, Iridium and Thuraya satellite voice, and Inmarsat BGAN and Thuraya data terminals. An attempted kiosk-payment federation (PATN, 1998) extended the same architecture to public Internet terminals but failed to reach scale.
Both Iridium (global LEO) and Thuraya (regional GEO) satellite voice were available in Armenia from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
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