Honduras
Power & telecom standards in Honduras
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Honduras. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Honduras for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Honduras uses 120V at 60Hz. Power outlets are type A, B and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Tempest Telecom provided local dial-up access numbers in Honduras 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 Honduras 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.
Honduras at a Glance
- Capital
- Tegucigalpa
- Phone Code
- +504
- Voltage
- 120V / 60Hz
- Power Plug
- A, B
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Lempira
- Dial-up
- $0.155/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Honduras
Honduras uses 110V/60Hz with Type A and Type B outlets. The phone jack is RJ-11. Tigo Honduras (Millicom) and Claro Honduras (América Móvil) dominate the mobile market.
Honduran commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s. Per-minute metered dial-up dominated. Mobile data has driven essentially all subsequent connectivity growth.
The Honduran prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the very large Honduran outbound diaspora — concentrated in the United States (particularly New Orleans, Houston, and New York), Mexico, and Spain. The 1998 Hurricane Mitch and subsequent migration waves substantially expanded the diaspora.
Tempest Telecom served Honduras through dial-up POPs in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. The Caribbean and Pacific coast maritime industries, the Mayan archaeological-research customer base (Copán), and humanitarian operators across recurring hurricane-recovery operations sustained Iridium demand.
Modern Honduras has expanding 4G LTE coverage with FTTH concentrated in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
Tempest's services across Honduras, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Honduras between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Honduras 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 Honduras from approximately 2001 (post-bankruptcy relaunch). Thuraya coverage did not extend to Honduras; Inmarsat BGAN data terminals filled the broadband gap from late 2005.
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