Niger
Power & telecom standards in Niger
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered dial-up internet access, WiFi hotspot access and broadband ethernet access in Niger. We also offered Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access in Niger for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Niger uses 220V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type A, B, C, D, E, F and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Tempest Telecom provided local dial-up access numbers in Niger 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 Niger 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.
Niger at a Glance
- Capital
- Niamey
- Phone Code
- +227
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- A, B, C, D, E, F
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- CFA Franc
- Dial-up
- $0.255/min
- WiFi
- $19.95/day
About connectivity in Niger
Niger uses 220V/50Hz with Type A, Type B, Type C, Type D, Type E, and Type F outlets — one of the most unusual six-type plug mixes in the African dataset. The phone jack is RJ-11. Niger Telecoms (state), Airtel Niger, Moov Africa Niger, and Zamani Telecom compete in the country's telecom market.
Nigerien commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s. The country's landlocked Saharan position and modest economic resources have constrained sustained infrastructure investment. Mobile data dominates current access. The 2023 military coup has shaped the post-2023 operating environment.
The Nigerien prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the modest Nigerien outbound diaspora — concentrated in France, Nigeria, Libya, Côte d'Ivoire, and across the West African Sahel labor circuit.
Tempest Telecom served Niger through dial-up POPs in Niamey. The uranium-mining sector (Niger is one of the world's largest uranium producers, with Arlit and Akouta operations), the Sahara expedition customer base, and humanitarian operators across the recurring drought and Sahel security crises sustained Iridium demand.
Modern Niger has expanding mobile-data coverage in Niamey and the regional centers.
Tempest's services across Niger, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Niger between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Niger 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 Niger from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
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