North Korea Tech, which has quickly become one of my favourite blogs regarding the DPRK, reports that North Korea is leading the world in wireless 3G cellular network adoption. Q3 results from Egypt based provider Orascom reports that Koryolink, the state run cellular company boasted over 300,000 subscribers, 99.9% of whom are on the 3G network. Cellular service is relatively new to North Korea, which obviously explains the high adoption rate, however in 2004 a 2G network existed mostly for the wealthy elite. Even the 2G network was restricted and new subscriptions were disallowed, after the Ryongchon train explosion which was rumoured to have been a case of domestic terrorism possibly organized or detonated utilizing mobile phone technology.
Source: North Korea Tech
