Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 26
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
Iran plans to connect 12,000 villages to internet by the end of the current Iranian fiscal year (March 20, 2015).
Iranian telecommunication minister Mahmoud Vaezi said that currently 8,000 villages in the country are connected to the internet, Iran's IRNA news agency reported on Dec. 26.
He added that the ministry eyes connecting up to 30,000 villages to the internet in the long term.
To this end, over 10 trillion rials (about $300 million) has been allocated for providing necessary infrastructure, he noted.
Iranian authorities will provide high-speed internet to all the villages of the country, which have more than 20 families living there.
Abolfazl Razavi, Vice President for Rural Development Regions, said on November 28 that the project will be implemented by the end of the next year.
In March, Iranian MP Ramezanali Sobhanifar said some 4,000 villages will be connected to high-speed internet in the current year.
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