Baku, Azerbaijan, September 17
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Within the framework of the State Program Digital Kazakhstan, there are plans to cover basic and satellite rural settlements with high-speed internet and introduce high-tech types of communications by the end of 2023, the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin said, Trend reports with reference to the press office of Kazakhstan.
The became known during the visit of a delegation of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC), as well as Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union Zhao Houlin and Director General of the Universal Postal Union Bishar Hussein to Kazakhstan, within the framework of which the meeting with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin took place.
Mamin noted that Kazakhstan pays great attention to the introduction of 5G communication technologies, the expansion of broadband Internet access, as well as other projects on informatization and digitalization, which have a serious effect on the development of the Kazakh economy and increasing its competitiveness.
He also informed about Kazakhstan’s plans to create a transport infrastructure capable of providing telecommunication traffic to Russia, China and Central Asia.
“Today we are carrying out preparatory work for the construction of fiber-optic communication lines along the bottom of the Caspian Sea with Azerbaijan with a deadline of completion by the end of 2021,” Mamin said.
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