In January to July 2005 the communications enterprises provided population and economic subjects with services worth 1133.0bn manats, or 31.3% over the year-on-year indicator. 26% of services fell on public sector, while 74% - on private sector. The services grew 10.7% and 40.3% respectively. 76.2% of all services was delivered to population.
According to Aztelekom Production Association rise in long-distance and city talks made up 8.4%. AS a result of improvement work the international ingoing traffic grew 29.7%, or 23.5 million minutes, outgoing вЂ" 27.8%, or 5.3 million minutes.
In thjs period the work on the reconstruction of telephone stations, in particular, telephone communication of Yevlakh district was fully transited to electron system, new automatic telephone stations with the capacity of 5632 numbers were put in to exploitation in 17 rural places.
3/2 of communications services fell on mobile communications. Incomes from communications grew 44.3 times as compared to 2004 and comprised 763.4bn manats. At present 23 mobile phone subscribers fall on each 100 people. The mobile phone holders total 1.7m.
Considerable rise in the telecommunications services was fixed in the regions. It comprised 7% in Aran economic zone, 18.7% - Absheron, 8,9% - Guba-Khachmaz, 10.3% - Shirvan, 13.3% - РІ Shaki-Zakatala, 12.3% - Ganja-Gazakh, 25.6% - in Nakhchivan and 11.1% - in Lankaran.
Besides, in January to July 2005 47,172bn manats was invested in the telecommunications sector, which were mainly directed at the construction of new telephone lines, reconstruction work I the capital and in the regions, according to the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies.
Touching upon the investments by different enterprises of the Ministry, the Ministry said that in this period Aztelekom invested 18,472bn manats in the development of the communications sector, Baki Telefon Rabitasi - 22,116m manats, Teleradio вЂ" 1,720bn manats and Azerpocta вЂ" 3,036bn manats.