97% of East Kazakhstan residents have access to high-speed Internet

That was announced by the Head of Energy and Housing Utilities Administration Almat Akishov at the extended conference meeting in Akimat of East Kazakhstan region.  

He informed that today all cities and district centers of the region are provided with high-speed Internet. At the same time, 538 out of 683 settlements of the region are provided with broadband Internet access. 97% of the population of East Kazakhstan region live there. 277 of them has the 8 Mbit/s Internet or more, and 261 - within 2 Mbit/s. In the other 145 rural settlements, high-speed Internet is not available or its speed does not exceed 0.5 Mbit/s. To provide villages with broadband access and increase the capacity of existing channels, the telecom operators, in 2021, in 32 villages will replace WFA technology with 3G/4G, and in 11 more villages it is planned to switch to land communication channels (radio relay or fiber). “It is also planned to ensure and improve the quality of cellular communications and mobile Internet in 22 rural settlements. It is planned to spread the Internet for the population in 16 villages, in which the fiber optic is connected to state facilities,” said Almat Akishov. He also noted that the bulk of work to provide villages with high-speed Internet falls on 2022-2024. As a result, the coverage of the population with broadband access in East Kazakhstan region will exceed 99%.