Georgia
Power & telecom standards in Georgia
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Georgia. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Georgia for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Georgia 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 Georgia 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 Georgia 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.
Georgia at a Glance
- Capital
- Tbilisi
- Phone Code
- +995
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, F
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Lari
- Dial-up
- $0.155/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Georgia
Georgia uses 220V/50Hz with Type C and Type F outlets. The phone jack is RJ-11. The Georgian telecom sector is contested by Magti (founded 1996, the country's largest mobile operator), Silknet, and Cellfie (formerly Geocell). The post-Rose Revolution (2003) reforms shaped a comparatively competitive Georgian telecom market.
Georgian commercial Internet emerged in 1994 through the academic GRENA network. Commercial dial-up followed through the mid-1990s with multiple regional ISPs. Per-minute metered dial-up dominated the late 1990s. Post-2003 reforms accelerated investment; ADSL and broadband adoption grew through the 2000s. The 2008 Russo-Georgian War disrupted telecom infrastructure briefly. Mobile data dominates current Internet access.
Cardphone deployment was modest. The Georgian prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s and 2010s served the Georgian outbound diaspora — concentrated in Russia (the historic destination), Greece, Turkey, Israel (the substantial post-1991 Georgian-Jewish aliyah), Germany, and the United States.
Tempest Telecom served Georgia through dial-up POPs in Tbilisi. Iridium satphones served the Caucasus mountain expedition customer base, the BTC pipeline corridor energy logistics, and broadcast journalists covering the 2008 war.
Modern Georgia has expanding 4G LTE coverage with FTTH concentrated in Tbilisi, Batumi, and Kutaisi.
Tempest's services across Georgia, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Georgia between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Georgia 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 Georgia from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
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