Mauritius
Power & telecom standards in Mauritius
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Mauritius. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Mauritius for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Mauritius uses 230V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type C, G and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Tempest Telecom provided local dial-up access numbers in Mauritius 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 Mauritius at $19.95/day for unlimited browsing.
Adapters & Power
A Type G (British 3-pin) adapter is required for travelers from North America, Europe, and most of Asia.
Standard RJ-11 jacks are used. Most international modems will connect without an adapter.
Mauritius at a Glance
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Phone Code
- +230
- Voltage
- 230V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C, G
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- Rupee
- Dial-up
- $0.255/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Mauritius
Mauritius uses 230V/50Hz with the British Type G plug plus Type C — a legacy of British colonial wiring standards. The phone jack is RJ-11. Mauritius Telecom (the partially-privatized state operator) and Emtel compete in the country's telecom market.
Mauritian commercial Internet emerged in 1996 through Mauritius Telecom. The country's relatively high per-capita income and concentrated population enabled aggressive FTTH deployment from the 2000s onward; Mauritius has consistently ranked among the more digitally-developed African economies.
The Mauritian prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the substantial Mauritian outbound diaspora — concentrated in France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and across the broader Indian Ocean francophone region. The country's multi-ethnic demographic structure (Indo-Mauritian, Sino-Mauritian, Franco-Mauritian, Creole, and Tamil populations) sustained multiple destination-corridor card brands.
Tempest Telecom served Mauritius through dial-up POPs in Port Louis. The Indian Ocean maritime industry, the sugar-export sector, and the tourism and financial-services sectors sustained Iridium demand.
Modern Mauritius has near-universal FTTH coverage with mature 4G LTE / 5G — consistently in the top tier among African broadband markets.
Tempest's services across Mauritius, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Mauritius between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Mauritius 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 Mauritius from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
Nearby countries in Africa
Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger