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North Korea’s efforts to improve telecommunications environment face many hurdles
North Korea s mobile telecom environment is so poor that dead zones appear or users face difficulty sending multimedia text messages
2021.02.19 12:36pm
North Korea has made it clear it wishes to improve the nation’s telecommunication environment. But due to the poor condition of the country’s infrastructure, major developments like next-generation internet are still a long way off, and the country will likely settle for improvements to existing facilities. According to a source, those improvements could be as basic as automating operator-connected phones.
A source in North Korea said in a telephone conversation with Daily NK on Wednesday that provinces, cities and counties were still using telecom systems from 50 years ago with manual switchboards. “The order from the Eighth Party Congress intends to replace this with the latest technology,” he said.