Attention Kara-Suu Bazaar shoppers. I have some exciting news… Osh now has 4G LTE cell data service from 2 of Kyrgyzstan’s 3 cell service providers. LTE. In my Peace Corps site. WHAAAAAAT?!
Now, a lot of you probably are asking yourselves “what’s LTE and why should I care?” To answer this question, I’m going to explain the state of my internet before this glorious event took place.
I’m actually shocked that I’ve been able to get so many blogs up this week. When we first arrived in Tajikistan, we traveled for two days without really any internet, then had some slow internet at a hostel where we spent the first morning. From that Thursday until Monday, we did not access the internet in any form. It was some serious cold turkey quitting going on. But, when we finally did have access to the internet, actually loading a page was another issue entirely. Continue reading ““Wow, this internet is faster than dial-up!””
