Solomon Islands
Power & telecom standards in Solomon Islands
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered satellite-only service in Solomon Islands. Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access was available for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Solomon Islands uses 240V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type G, I and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up access was not available in Solomon Islands. Satellite Internet was the recommended alternative.
WiFi Hotspot Access
WiFi hotspot access was not available through Tempest in Solomon Islands.
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.
Solomon Islands at a Glance
- Capital
- Honiara
- Phone Code
- +677
- Voltage
- 240V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- G, I
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- SBD
- Dial-up
- N/A
- WiFi
- N/A
About connectivity in Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands use 220V/50Hz with the Type I plug shared with Australia. The phone jack is RJ-11. Our Telekom and bmobile-vodafone operate the country's telecom infrastructure.
Solomon Islands commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s. The country's extreme geographic dispersion (population ~700,000 spread across nearly 1,000 islands) shaped infrastructure development.
The Solomon Islands prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the modest outbound diaspora — concentrated in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.
Tempest Telecom served Solomon Islands through dial-up POPs in Honiara. The Pacific maritime industry, the modest gold-mining sector, and humanitarian operators across the 1998-2003 ethnic tensions period sustained Iridium demand.
Modern Solomon Islands has expanding 4G LTE coverage in populated areas; satellite continues to play a substantial role for remote-island connectivity.
Tempest's services across Solomon Islands, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Solomon Islands between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Solomon Islands 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 Solomon Islands from approximately 2001 (post-bankruptcy relaunch). Thuraya coverage did not extend to Solomon Islands; Inmarsat BGAN data terminals filled the broadband gap from late 2005.
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