Macedonia
Power & telecom standards in Macedonia
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Macedonia. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Macedonia for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Macedonia uses 230V 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 Macedonia 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 Macedonia 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.
Macedonia at a Glance
- Capital
- Skopje
- Phone Code
- +389
- Voltage
- 230V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, F
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Denar
- Dial-up
- $0.155/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Macedonia
North Macedonia (officially renamed from Macedonia in 2019 under the Prespa Agreement) uses 230V/50Hz with Type C and Type F outlets. The phone jack is RJ-11. Makedonski Telekom (the post-1997 successor to the federal Yugoslav PTT's Macedonian operations, majority Deutsche Telekom-owned) holds substantial fixed-line market position. A1 Makedonija and Lycamobile compete in mobile.
Macedonian commercial Internet emerged in 1995 through the academic MARNET network and a small number of private ISPs. Per-minute metered dial-up through PTT Makedonija PSTN dominated the late 1990s. ADSL rolled out through the mid-2000s; the EU-pre-accession process drove modest broadband investment. Mobile data dominates current Internet access.
Makedonski Telekom cardphone deployment was modest. The Macedonian prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s and 2010s served the substantial Macedonian outbound diaspora — concentrated in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Australia, and across the broader Balkan labor circuit.
Tempest Telecom served North Macedonia through dial-up POPs in Skopje. Iridium satphones served the post-Yugoslav-era reconstruction customer base, the Vardar valley operations, and humanitarian operators across the 2001 Albanian-Macedonian conflict period.
Modern North Macedonia has expanding 4G LTE coverage in Skopje and the regional centers; FTTH is concentrated in Skopje.
Tempest's services across Macedonia, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Macedonia between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Macedonia 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 Macedonia from approximately 2001 (post-bankruptcy relaunch). Thuraya coverage did not extend to Macedonia; Inmarsat BGAN data terminals filled the broadband gap from late 2005.
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