Mobiles Go Live in North Korea

North Korea has launched a mobile phone network in several of its major cities, according to a report in the state controlled radio station, the Central Broadcasting Station. The radio station said that the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and Central Telegraph and Telephone Bureau staff have completed building the mobile network in Pyeongyang, provincial capitals and towns near major roads.

The system also covers the highways running between Pyeongyang and Hyangsan, Pyeongyang and Gaeseong and Wonsan and Hamheung.

Loxley Pacific, which is a joint venture between Loxley, Teltech of Finland and Charungthai of Taiwan is currently building a GSM network in the Rason Economic Zone which was due to go live in July. We were notified by Loxley Pacific in April that the company then plans a nationwide expansion program. It is not clear if this new network is anything to do with the Loxley Pacific network."

Posted to the site on 10th September 2003