Cobertura de Maldivas

Qué significan las cifras de Maldivas

Importan dos números y solo uno es el que cita todo el mundo. La velocidad habitual, 47 Mbps, te dice cómo es un buen momento.

El percentil diez, 11 Mbps, es el que conviene leer. Es la velocidad en la peor décima parte del día, cuando la antena de encima de la estación está llena y todos los que te rodean están en ella. Un país con mediana alta y suelo bajo es un país que funciona de maravilla hasta el momento en que de verdad lo necesitas.

Si el viaje depende de videollamadas o de compartir conexión, planifica con la cifra de hora punta y no con la habitual.

Qué pasa en Maldivas cuando la red se satura

La congestión no es una avería, es un martes por la tarde. La pregunta es qué puede hacer tu eSIM al respecto, y en la mayoría de las eSIM de viaje la respuesta es nada: un acuerdo mayorista por país, una red y ninguna salida salvo comprar una segunda eSIM a otro mientras estás de pie en la calle.

Aquí el tráfico de Orbislo va por Dhiraagu y Ooredoo. Cuando la red en la que estás se degrada te movemos a otra, en mitad del viaje, sin que lo pidas, y te lo contamos después en lugar de interrumpirte en ese momento.

Operadores móviles en Maldivas

• Dhiraagu: Dhiraagu has operated since 1988. Its shareholders are Beyon, through BTC Islands, with 52 percent, the Government of the Maldives with 41.8 percent and the public with 6.2 percent.
• Dhiraagu: Dhiraagu reports coverage across all 187 inhabited islands, resort islands and the major industrial islands. It reached 100 percent mobile coverage of inhabited islands and resorts in 2008, introduced 3G in 2009, 4G in 2014 and 4G+ in Greater Male in 2015.
• Ooredoo Maldives: Ooredoo Maldives, 90.5 percent owned by Wataniya International, passed 426,000 subscribers in 2025 and reports 4G+ coverage across 100 percent of the country.
• Licence holders: Only Dhiraagu and Ooredoo Maldives hold the unified licence for all telecom services nationwide. Starlink Services Maldives holds an internet licence for satellite service to homes, small businesses, and vessels and aircraft of large enterprises.

El 5G en Maldivas

• Dhiraagu launched commercial 5G in July 2019 in selected areas of three regions: Male and Velana International Airport, Addu City and Hithadhoo, and Kulhudhuffushi. At launch the only compatible handset was the Huawei Mate 20X.
• Ooredoo Maldives launched commercial 5G on 20 December 2020, covering a large share of Male including business hubs, hospitals and public spaces, for both prepaid and postpaid users.
• By 2025 Dhiraagu's 5G reached 73 percent of the population, covering Greater Male, the industrial islands in that region, Seenu Hithadhoo and Kulhudhuffushi City.
• Ooredoo Maldives reports that its 5G reached 80 percent of the population in 2025, which it describes as the widest 5G footprint in the country.

Notas sobre la red en Maldivas

• In July 2026 the regulator counted 844,302 mobile subscriptions, 607,359 of them prepaid and 236,943 postpaid, a mobile teledensity of 135 percent measured against a resident population of 623,138.
• The regulator's count of mobile broadband subscriptions leaves out random pay as you go users, so casual pay as you go data users are not in that figure.
• International capacity is licensed to two gateway operators, WARF Telecom International and Ocean Connect Maldives, which provide the submarine fibre links in and out of the country.
• Dhiraagu runs a 1,430 km domestic submarine fibre network linking the atolls from north to south, and two Maldives to Sri Lanka cable systems. It is adding the SEA-ME-WE-6 system and the Dhivaru cable built with Google.
• Ooredoo Maldives landed the PEACE international submarine cable at Kulhudhuffushi in Haa Dhaalu, connected the Waldorf Astoria Ithaafushi resort by its own submarine cable, and approved a second nationwide domestic cable, NaSCOM2, costing up to MVR 162 million.