Maldivas: cobertura móvel

O que os números de Maldivas querem dizer

Dois números importam e só um deles é o que todo mundo cita. A velocidade típica, 47 Mbps, diz como é um bom momento.

O décimo percentil, 11 Mbps, é o que vale a pena ler. É a velocidade no décimo pior do dia, quando a antena em cima da estação está cheia e todo mundo à sua volta está nela. Um país com mediana alta e piso baixo é um país que funciona lindamente até a hora em que você realmente precisa.

Se a viagem depende de videochamadas ou de roteamento, planeje pelo número da hora cheia e não pelo típico.

O que acontece em Maldivas quando a rede fica cheia

Congestionamento não é defeito, é uma terça à noite. A pergunta é o que o seu eSIM pode fazer a respeito, e na maioria dos eSIMs de viagem a resposta é nada: um acordo de atacado por país, uma rede e nenhuma saída além de comprar um segundo eSIM de outra empresa parado na rua.

Aqui o tráfego da Orbislo passa por Dhiraagu e Ooredoo. Quando a rede em que você está piora, movemos você para outra, no meio da viagem, sem você pedir, e contamos depois em vez de interromper na hora.

Operadoras móveis em 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.

O 5G em 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 a rede em 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.