Maldive: la copertura

Cosa vogliono dire i numeri di Maldive

Contano due numeri e solo uno è quello che citano tutti. La velocità tipica, 47 Mbps, dice com'è un buon momento.

Il decimo percentile, 11 Mbps, è quello che vale la pena leggere. È la velocità nel decimo peggiore della giornata, quando la cella sopra la stazione è piena e tutti intorno a te ci sono dentro. Un paese con mediana alta e pavimento basso funziona benissimo, fino al momento in cui ti serve davvero.

Se il viaggio dipende da videochiamate o hotspot, pianifica sul dato delle ore di punta e non su quello tipico.

Cosa succede in Maldive quando la rete è congestionata

La congestione non è un guasto, è un martedì sera. La domanda è cosa può farci la tua eSIM, e per quasi tutte le eSIM da viaggio la risposta è niente: un accordo all'ingrosso per paese, una rete, e nessuna via d'uscita se non comprare una seconda eSIM da qualcun altro mentre sei in mezzo alla strada.

Qui il traffico Orbislo passa da Dhiraagu e Ooredoo. Quando la rete su cui sei peggiora ti spostiamo su un'altra, a metà viaggio, senza che tu lo chieda, e te lo diciamo dopo invece di interromperti sul momento.

Maldive: operatori mobili

• 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.

Maldive: il 5G

• 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.

Maldive: note sulla rete

• 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.