Comoros
Power & telecom standards in Comoros
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered satellite-only service in Comoros. Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access was available for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Comoros uses 220V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type C, E and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up access was not available in Comoros. Satellite Internet was the recommended alternative.
WiFi Hotspot Access
WiFi hotspot access was not available through Tempest in Comoros.
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.
Comoros at a Glance
- Capital
- Moroni
- Phone Code
- +269
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, E
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Franc
- Dial-up
- N/A
- WiFi
- N/A
About connectivity in Comoros
Comoros uses 220V/50Hz with Type C and Type E outlets — French colonial-era wiring. The phone jack is RJ-11. Comores Telecom and Telma Comores operate the archipelago's telecom infrastructure across the three-island nation.
Comorian commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s. The country's small population (~870,000) and inter-island fragmentation shaped infrastructure development.
The Comorian prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the substantial Comorian diaspora — concentrated in France (particularly Marseille, which hosts one of the largest Comorian communities outside Comoros), Madagascar, and Mayotte (the French overseas department north of Madagascar).
Tempest Telecom served Comoros through limited dial-up arrangements. Indian Ocean maritime industry and tourism operators sustained modest Iridium customer demand.
Modern Comoros has expanding 4G LTE coverage with FTTH concentrated in Moroni.
Tempest's services across Comoros, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Comoros between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Comoros 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 Comoros from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
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