North Korea issuing SIM cards to tourists

inquisitor · 12-03-2013, 23:21

I wonder what North Korea's international IP connectivity is like and if you could ever use up your data allowance. You would need to use a bandwidth of 30 KBit/s for a full month day and night to generate 10GB.

ChrisNeedsToKnow · 11-06-2013, 14:47

I went to NK in 2011 just to see what it´s like. (PN me if you want to see pictures of the trip)

At the time the group I went with had to surrender their phones on arrival, we got them back on departure.

The travel agency I went with (koryotours) obvisouly goes in frequently, and they managed to actually place a Skype-Video-call from NorthKorea:
Skype Call from Inside North Korea - YouTube

Most interesting trip, but you shouldn´t expect reliable communication at any time. If you need to be available/online you should definitely NOT go!

Rgds, Chrisitan

	(#1)
inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	12-03-2013, 23:21 I wonder what North Korea's international IP connectivity is like and if you could ever use up your data allowance. You would need to use a bandwidth of 30 KBit/s for a full month day and night to generate 10GB. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com

	(#2)
ChrisNeedsToKnow (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 81 Join Date: 22 May 2013 Country:	11-06-2013, 14:47 I went to NK in 2011 just to see what it´s like. (PN me if you want to see pictures of the trip) At the time the group I went with had to surrender their phones on arrival, we got them back on departure. The travel agency I went with (koryotours) obvisouly goes in frequently, and they managed to actually place a Skype-Video-call from NorthKorea: Skype Call from Inside North Korea - YouTube Most interesting trip, but you shouldn´t expect reliable communication at any time. If you need to be available/online you should definitely NOT go! Rgds, Chrisitan