Guinea
Power & telecom standards in Guinea
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Guinea. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Guinea for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Guinea uses 220V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type C, F, K and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Tempest Telecom provided local dial-up access numbers in Guinea at $0.255/minute. Travelers could connect using any standard modem with an RJ-11 telephone adapter.
WiFi Hotspot Access
Tempest Telecom provided WiFi hotspot access in Guinea 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.
Guinea at a Glance
- Capital
- Conakry
- Phone Code
- +224
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, F, K
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Franc
- Dial-up
- $0.255/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Guinea
Guinea uses 220V/50Hz with Type C, Type F, and Type K outlets — French colonial-era and post-independence installations. The phone jack is RJ-11. Orange Guinea, MTN Guinea, and Cellcom (now Guicell) compete in the country's telecom market.
Guinean commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s through limited state operator operations. Mobile data has driven essentially all subsequent connectivity growth.
The Guinean prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the modest Guinean diaspora — concentrated in France, Senegal, the United States (the Bronx hosts a notable Guinean community), and across the West African ECOWAS labor circuit.
Tempest Telecom served Guinea through dial-up POPs in Conakry. The substantial bauxite and iron-ore mining sectors (Guinea holds the world's largest bauxite reserves), the Atlantic-coast maritime industry, and humanitarian operators across the 2014-2015 Ebola response sustained Iridium customer demand.
Modern Guinea has expanding mobile-data coverage in Conakry and the regional centers.
Tempest's services across Guinea, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Guinea between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Guinea 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 Guinea from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
Nearby countries in Africa
Ethiopia · Gabon · Gambia · Ghana · Guinea-Bissau · Ivory Coast · Kenya · Lesotho