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North Korea Tech » Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications http://www.northkoreatech.org Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:52:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 North Korea bans WiFi at embassies http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/09/09/north-korea-bans-wifi-at-embassies/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/09/09/north-korea-bans-wifi-at-embassies/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:35:58 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=6530

North Korea has banned the use of satellite Internet connections and WiFi networks by foreign embassies and international organizations unless they get government approval. The switch, which came in mid August, gives credibility to an earlier report that unencrypted wireless networks at embassies were being used by North Korean citizens to gain uncensored access to…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/09/09/north-korea-bans-wifi-at-embassies/feed/ 7 North Korea Tech Koryolink subscriptions hit 2.4 million http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/09/08/koryolink-subscriptions-hit-2-4-million/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/09/08/koryolink-subscriptions-hit-2-4-million/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:00:03 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=6520

Subscriptions to Koryolink, North Korea’s only 3G mobile phone network, have just passed the 2.4 million mark, according to the latest figures from the operator. The figure represents a significant slowdown in growth in the last year over the previous year and points to the first big spurt in subscriptions being over. The carrier might have…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/09/08/koryolink-subscriptions-hit-2-4-million/feed/ 5 North Korea Tech Orascom has $422 million in cash in North Korea http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/16/orascom-has-422-million-in-cash-in-north-korea/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/16/orascom-has-422-million-in-cash-in-north-korea/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:28:19 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5439

Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT), the Egyptian company that owns a 75 percent stake in North Korea’s on 3G cellular network operator, has apparently been doing very well in the North Korean market. A recent audit report by Deloitte says the company’s assets in North Korea stand at US$512 million, of which $422 million…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/16/orascom-has-422-million-in-cash-in-north-korea/feed/ 2 North Korea Tech Ham radio operators to refine DPRK plans http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/07/02/ham-radio-operators-to-refine-dprk-plans/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/07/02/ham-radio-operators-to-refine-dprk-plans/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 03:40:37 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5050 Two ham radio operators hoping to get permission to set up a temporary amateur radio station in North Korea have returned from a trip to the country and have plans to visit again. Paul Ewing (N6PSE) and David Flack (AH6HY) of the “Intrepid DX” group wrote that they will refine their proposal and “continue to…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/07/02/ham-radio-operators-to-refine-dprk-plans/feed/ 1 Ham radio operators hope to put North Korea on the air http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/11/ham-radio-operators-hope-to-put-north-korea-on-the-air/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/11/ham-radio-operators-hope-to-put-north-korea-on-the-air/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:00:52 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4785 A group of amateur radio operators are hoping to get permission from the North Korean government for a month-long trip to the country during which they’ll set up a ham radio operation. If they manage to pull off the plan, they’ll have succeeded where few have before. North Korea has no amateur radio operators and…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/11/ham-radio-operators-hope-to-put-north-korea-on-the-air/feed/ 3 Koryolink hits 2 million subscribers http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/02/koryolink-hits-2-million-subscribers/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/02/koryolink-hits-2-million-subscribers/#comments Sun, 02 Jun 2013 08:13:16 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4809

North Korea’s Koryolink cellular network has hit the 2 million subscriber mark, majority owner Orascom Telecom said this week. The landmark was reached in late May, 15 months after it surpassed the million subscriber mark. Koryolink launched its 3G cellular service in the final days of December 2008 and in the last four years has…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/02/koryolink-hits-2-million-subscribers/feed/ 1 North Korea Tech Pyongyang denies GPS jamming http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/05/19/pyongyang-denies-gps-jamming/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/05/19/pyongyang-denies-gps-jamming/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 20:56:55 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3284

North Korea denied on Friday that it played any part in a two and a half week long jamming of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals in the border area between North and South Korea. The denial was carried in several state media outlets and said allegations that the DPRK was behind the jamming were part…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/05/19/pyongyang-denies-gps-jamming/feed/ 4 North Korea Tech DPRK radio transmitters a national secret http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/25/dprk-radio-transmitters-a-national-secret/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/25/dprk-radio-transmitters-a-national-secret/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:30:15 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2969 When North Korea launched a modernization of its broadcasting network in 2011, the Chinese company chosen to supply new TV and radio transmitters to the country faced a problem. The location of broadcast towers in North Korea is so much of a state secret that engineers from the company weren’t permitted to travel to the DPRK…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/25/dprk-radio-transmitters-a-national-secret/feed/ 2 Koryolink hits a million subscribers http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/02/03/koryolink-hits-a-million-subscribers/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/02/03/koryolink-hits-a-million-subscribers/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:38:44 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2643 Koryolink, North Korea’s only commercial 3G cell phone network, has signed up its millionth subscriber. The landmark was reached just over three years since service was launched. Koryolink has been adding more than 100,000 new subscribers for each of the last five quarters and was expected to hit the million mark in early 2012. The…

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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/02/03/koryolink-hits-a-million-subscribers/feed/ 15 Koryolink surpasses 800,000 3G subscriptions http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/11/18/koryolink-surpasses-800000-3g-subscriptions/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/11/18/koryolink-surpasses-800000-3g-subscriptions/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:35:35 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2267

North Korea’s nationwide 3G cellular network could miss an end-of-year target to have a million subscribers despite two successive quarters of record subscriber growth. Koryolink added 142,000 subscriptions in the third quarter, beating the 131,000 subscriptions added in the previous three months, to end September with 809,000 users. That leaves it 191,000 subscribers short of hitting a…

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