Guyana
Power & telecom standards in Guyana
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Guyana. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Guyana for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Guyana uses 240V at 60Hz. Power outlets are type A, B, D, G and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Tempest Telecom provided local dial-up access numbers in Guyana 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 Guyana at $19.95/day for unlimited browsing.
Adapters & Power
North American (Type A/B) plugs are compatible. An adapter may not be needed for US travelers.
Standard RJ-11 jacks are used. Most international modems will connect without an adapter.
Guyana at a Glance
- Capital
- Georgetown
- Phone Code
- +592
- Voltage
- 240V / 60Hz
- Power Plug
- A, B, D, G
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- GYD
- Dial-up
- $0.155/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Guyana
Guyana uses 240V/60Hz (unusual frequency for a 240V country) with Type A, Type B, Type D, and Type G outlets — an unusual four-type mix reflecting layered British colonial-era and American influences. The phone jack is RJ-11. GTT (Guyana Telephone and Telegraph) and Digicel Guyana compete in the country's telecom market.
Guyanese commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s. The 2020s offshore oil-and-gas discoveries (the Stabroek Block ExxonMobil operations) have triggered substantial telecom-infrastructure investment.
The Guyanese prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the very large Guyanese outbound diaspora — concentrated in the United States (particularly Queens New York, which hosts one of the largest Guyanese communities outside Guyana), Canada (Toronto), and the United Kingdom.
Tempest Telecom served Guyana through dial-up POPs in Georgetown. The bauxite-mining sector, the Atlantic-coast maritime industry, and the Amazon rainforest expedition customer base sustained Iridium demand. The post-2015 ExxonMobil offshore oil operations transformed corporate-customer demand.
Modern Guyana has expanding 4G LTE coverage with FTTH concentrated in Georgetown. The country's post-2020 oil-boom economic growth is driving substantial infrastructure investment.
Tempest's services across Guyana, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Guyana between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Guyana drew from the same balance for pre-paid international voice calling, RADIUS-authenticated dial-up Internet roaming, metered Wi-Fi hotspot access, Iridium satellite voice, and Inmarsat BGAN data terminals. An attempted kiosk-payment federation (PATN, 1998) extended the same architecture to public Internet terminals but failed to reach scale.
Iridium satellite voice was available in Guyana from approximately 2001 (post-bankruptcy relaunch). Thuraya coverage did not extend to Guyana; Inmarsat BGAN data terminals filled the broadband gap from late 2005.
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