엘살바도르 커버리지

엘살바도르 수치가 뜻하는 것

중요한 숫자는 두 개인데, 모든 판매사가 인용하는 건 그중 하나뿐입니다. 일반적인 속도는 34 Mbps입니다. 상태가 좋을 때가 어느 정도인지 알려주는 숫자입니다.

읽을 값어치가 있는 건 10분위, 8 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.

엘살바도르에서 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 Tigo 및 Claro를 지납니다. 지금 쓰는 망이 나빠지면 여행 도중이라도, 요청하지 않아도 다른 망으로 옮깁니다. 그 순간에 방해하는 대신 옮기고 나서 알려드립니다.

엘살바도르의 이동통신사

• Claro: Claro El Salvador belongs to América Móvil. In the December 2019 AWS auction it won four of the twelve 5+5 MHz blocks on offer, bidding against Tigo, the only other participant. Three blocks, 30 MHz in all, went unsold.
• Claro: América Móvil tried to buy Movistar El Salvador as Telefónica left Central America, but the deal never closed because of competition conditions set by the regulator. América Móvil kept the Guatemalan unit instead.
• Tigo: Tigo says its 4.5G network reaches 95 percent of the population, about 5.7 million people, and that 5G is being added on top of that network step by step.
• Tigo: Tigo, the Millicom subsidiary, took five 5+5 MHz blocks in the December 2019 AWS auction by direct award, because it was the only registered bidder for that part of the band.
• Movistar: Movistar is run by General International Telecom El Salvador, a group of Salvadoran investors backed by Banco Atlántida. It bought 99.3 percent of Telefónica Móviles El Salvador for US$144 million, a deal completed in January 2022, and holds about 27 percent of mobile users.
• Movistar: Movistar was the only bidder for 30 MHz of extended AWS spectrum, 1,755 to 1,770 MHz paired with 2,155 to 2,170 MHz, which SIGET awarded to it in 2023 with nationwide coverage for 20 years to expand its 4G network.
• Digicel: Digicel, with about 13 percent of mobile users, agreed in September 2026 to sell its Salvadoran business to the owner of Movistar. The deal still needs regulatory approval and is expected to close in the first half of 2027.

엘살바도르의 5G

• Tigo switched on the country's first commercial 5G network on 28 October 2025, at 70 sites around greater San Salvador, Nuevo and Antiguo Cuscatlán and Puerto de La Libertad. It did not disclose which frequencies the network uses.
• Movistar's network branded 5G Ready is advanced 4G LTE running on its 850 MHz and 1,900 MHz spectrum. The company itself said in 2023 that no operator in the country then had 5G technology.
• As of July 2026 the tender for dedicated 5G spectrum was still pending. Tower company Proyectos Terrestres estimated that national 5G coverage would need 1,500 to 2,000 new sites, with shorter masts of 18 to 21 metres.

엘살바도르 네트워크 참고 사항

• More than 12 million mobile lines were active at the end of 2025, up 7.5 percent in a year, with close to 85 percent of them prepaid. It reports mobile coverage over 96 percent of the national territory.
• El Salvador has no submarine cable and relies entirely on land links through neighbouring countries for international traffic. SIGET picked Liberty Networks in December 2025 to build the first one, due in service in the second half of 2028.
• Before the December 2019 AWS auction, El Salvador had only 207 MHz of spectrum available for mobile services. That auction, the first of its kind in 20 years, offered 120 MHz more.
• SIGET granted Tigo a temporary nationwide concession of 30 MHz in the 700 MHz band under resolution T-0705-2026, valid for 60 days from 31 July to 28 September 2026.
• SIGET's quality regulation defines an operator's coverage area as a place where users have better than a 90 percent chance of reaching the network, and caps dropped calls at 3 percent a month for each technology.
• The same regulation sets minimum monthly average download rates of 500 kbps on 3G and 1,700 kbps on LTE inside each operator's declared coverage area, measured daily between 6:00 and 23:00.
• In 2023 Movistar was moving radio equipment onto sites that had only broadcast 3G so that they would carry LTE, as part of a second investment phase of about US$50 million.