SunNet

SunNet
legal form	State company
founding	2002
resolution	2010
Reason for dissolution	Foundation of Koryolink
Seat	North Korea
Branch	telecommunications

SunNet was a GSM - mobile network in North Korea . This was the first in the country.

Company history

The SunNet network on an iPhone (2008)

The first plans for a cell phone network began in the late 1990s. The network was put into operation on a trial basis by the Thai company Loxley PLC (Loxley Pacific Company Limited) in 2002. In 2004 all cell phones were collected again. The network was shut down at the end of 2010 and the company closed in favor of Koryolink .

Number of participants

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section

In 2004 there were around 20,000 existing contracts.

reception

After it was initially only available in Rasŏn and Kŭmgangsan , it was also in operation in Pyongyang from 2003 .

literature

• A Short History of the Cell Phone in North Korea. In: Daniel Tudor; James Pearson: North Korea Confidential. Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors , Tuttle Publishing, 2015, S, 146 ff. ISBN 978-1-462-91512-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adamson Rust: North Korea to go online soon, kind of . In: TechEye , June 11, 2010. Archived from the original on April 18, 2017 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 3, 2017.  
2. ^ Blog of a Russian student in Pyongyang: Changes for New Year 2011
3. ^ Adamson Rust: North Korea to go online soon, kind of . In: TechEye , June 11, 2010. Archived from the original on April 18, 2017 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 3, 2017.  
4. ↑ North Korea in the Mobile Age: The Cell Phone as Danger or Opportunity for Pyongyang - North Korea Info
5. ↑ North Korea travel information - goasia.de - discover and experience Asia with Go Asia