Bosnia-Herzegovina
Power & telecom standards in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Bosnia-Herzegovina. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Bosnia-Herzegovina for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Bosnia-Herzegovina 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 Bosnia-Herzegovina 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 Bosnia-Herzegovina 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.
Bosnia-Herzegovina at a Glance
- Capital
- Sarajevo
- Phone Code
- +387
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, F
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Marka
- Dial-up
- $0.155/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina uses 220V/50Hz with Type C and Type F outlets. The phone jack is RJ-11. The country's post-Dayton telecom landscape is divided across three regional operators reflecting the constitutional entity structure: BH Telecom (Federation), Telekom Srpske / m:tel (Republika Srpska, owned by Telekom Srbija), and HT Mostar (Federation/Croat-majority cantons).
Bosnian commercial Internet emerged in 1996 through the postwar reconstruction period. Per-minute metered dial-up through the regional operators dominated the late 1990s and early 2000s. The 1992-1995 Bosnian War devastated telecom infrastructure; the post-Dayton period focused on reconstruction. ADSL rolled out through the mid-2000s; mobile data dominates current Internet access.
Bosnian cardphone deployment was modest in the postwar period. The Bosnian prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s and 2010s served the very large Bosnian diaspora — the 1990s war drove approximately 2 million Bosnians abroad (an unusually high proportion for a country of ~4 million), concentrated in Germany, Austria, Sweden, the United States (St. Louis hosts the largest Bosnian community outside Bosnia), and Croatia.
Tempest Telecom served Bosnia and Herzegovina through dial-up POPs in Sarajevo. Iridium satphones served the substantial international broadcast, NGO, and humanitarian customer base operating during and after the 1992-1995 war — the Sarajevo press corps was one of the most concentrated international media customer bases of the 1990s.
Modern Bosnia and Herzegovina has expanding 4G LTE coverage in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar, and Tuzla; FTTH is concentrated in the larger cities.
Tempest's services across Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Bosnia-Herzegovina 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 Bosnia-Herzegovina from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
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