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Kazakhstan’s mobile phone operators increase services volume

ICT Materials 2 March 2017 12:52 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan’s mobile phone operators provided services worth 18.3 billion tenge (313.8 tenge = $1) in January 2016. It is 5.1 percent more than in the same period of 2015
Kazakhstan’s mobile phone operators increase services volume

Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2
By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:
Kazakhstan’s mobile phone operators provided services worth 18.3 billion tenge (313.8 tenge = $1) in January 2017. It is 5.1 percent more than in the same period of 2016, Energyprom.kz analytical service said in a report.

It is the first January since 2012 when mobile phone operators had positive results. They have been decreasing the volume of services since 2013. In 2016 the volume of services decreased by 10.4 percent compared to 2015.
The number of subscribers (mobile numbers) hit 25.4 million as of end of Jan. 2017 which is 19.6 percent less than one year ago.

There were 142 mobile numbers for 100 people in Kazakhstan in January. A year earlier, this figure was even higher - 180 subscribers per 100 people.

However the number of high-speed mobile internet users increased by 17.1 percent to 12 million over the year, which is 47.2 percent of all subscribers. In January 2016 this figure was 32.4 percent, while five years earlier, in January 2012 - just 25.2 percent.

As much as 67 mobile subscribers per 100 people had a high-speed mobile internet access in Jan. 2017. A year ago, only 58 out of a 100 people used mobile Internet.

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