볼리비아 커버리지

볼리비아 수치가 뜻하는 것

중요한 숫자는 두 개인데, 모든 판매사가 인용하는 건 그중 하나뿐입니다. 일반적인 속도는 27 Mbps입니다. 상태가 좋을 때가 어느 정도인지 알려주는 숫자입니다.

읽을 값어치가 있는 건 10분위, 6 Mbps 쪽입니다. 역 위 기지국이 가득 차고 주변 사람들이 모두 같은 전파에 붙어 있는, 하루 중 아래쪽 10퍼센트일 때의 속도입니다. 중앙값이 높고 바닥이 낮은 나라는 정작 필요한 그 순간까지만 훌륭하게 작동하는 나라입니다.

영상 통화나 테더링이 꼭 필요한 여행이라면 일반 속도가 아니라 혼잡 시 수치를 기준으로 계획하세요.

볼리비아에서 망이 붐빌 때 벌어지는 일

혼잡은 고장이 아니라 화요일 저녁입니다. 문제는 그때 eSIM이 무엇을 할 수 있느냐인데, 대부분의 여행용 eSIM은 할 수 있는 게 없습니다. 나라마다 도매 계약 하나, 망 하나, 길에 선 채로 다른 회사 eSIM을 한 장 더 사는 것 말고는 빠져나갈 방법이 없습니다.

여기서 Orbislo 트래픽은 Entel 및 Tigo를 지납니다. 지금 쓰는 망이 나빠지면 여행 도중이라도, 요청하지 않아도 다른 망으로 옮깁니다. 그 순간에 방해하는 대신 옮기고 나서 알려드립니다.

볼리비아의 이동통신사

• Tigo (Telecel): Telecel was the largest employer among Bolivia's telecom operators at the end of 2024, with 1,903 permanent staff, and it launched more promotions than any other operator that year, 120 of the 335 recorded.
• Tigo (Telecel): Apple's carrier list shows Tigo supporting VoLTE, LTE, Personal Hotspot and FaceTime over cellular on iPhone in Bolivia. Entel and Viva do not appear on that list.
• Viva (Nuevatel): Nuevatel is the smallest of Bolivia's three mobile operators by staff, with 353 permanent employees at the end of 2024 against 1,903 at Telecel and 1,397 at Entel, and it launched 61 promotions that year.
• Entel: Entel launched 97 promotions in 2024. Its mobile customers averaged 15 minutes of voice calls a month in December 2024, against 8 for Nuevatel and 3 for Telecel, as calling moved to WhatsApp and other apps.

볼리비아의 구형 네트워크

• Bolivia still had just under one million GSM mobile lines without internet access at the end of 2024. The regulator expects them to be replaced gradually by 3G and 4G lines as cheaper smartphones spread.

볼리비아의 5G

• Entel, the Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, had installed more than 100 5G base stations by October 2025 in the capital cities of all nine departments, and planned to reach 153 by December 2025 with an investment of 47.5 million dollars.
• Entel's initial 5G sites are concentrated in Santa Cruz with 26, La Paz with 24 and Cochabamba with 20, with 9 in Potosí, 6 each in Oruro and Chuquisaca, 5 in Tarija, 3 in Beni and 2 in Pando.
• Entel's 5G runs on band n78. To use it, a phone must support n78, be an Android handset or an iPhone on iOS 26, carry a 4G LTE SIM and be inside one of the enabled 5G zones.

볼리비아 네트워크 참고 사항

• At the end of 2024 Bolivia had 108 mobile lines per 100 inhabitants and 11.25 million lines on 3G or 4G LTE, yet almost 10 percent of lines still had no internet access.
• Oruro and Tarija have the highest mobile penetration, at 126 and 124 lines per 100 people, while Chuquisaca, Potosí and Beni sit between 72 and 89, which the regulator links to their large rural populations.
• La Paz and Santa Cruz each held just under 29 percent of Bolivia's mobile lines at the end of 2024, and together with Cochabamba the central axis accounted for 75 percent of all lines.
• Prepaid accounts for 90.9 percent of Bolivian mobile users, a share that has barely changed in recent years, and prepaid users can choose from a wide variety of mobile internet offers to match their own usage.
• Every Bolivian mobile operator must provide roaming support in rural areas, at least for voice. An operator without coverage in a rural area has to arrange roaming with one that has it, and users pay no more than their own operator's prepaid rate.