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Internet bandwidth in Iran rises by 240% in two years

Business Materials 15 June 2015 09:48 (UTC +04:00)
Internet bandwidth increased from 700 megabytes per second to 2400 MB/s since President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013, said Iranian Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi.
Internet bandwidth in Iran rises by 240% in two years

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 14
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:

Internet bandwidth increased from 700 megabytes per second to 2400 MB/s since President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013, said Iranian Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi.

Some 8,000 villages were connected to the national internet network in the past Iranian fiscal year, ended on March 20, he said, adding that the figure will be increased to 25,000 in the current year, Iran's IRNA news agency quoted Vaezi as saying on June 14.

Before the current administration took office, just 200,000 people had access to internet services via mobile phone, but now over 11 million people have access to the services, he noted.

The ministry plans to provide villages of more than 15 families with internet services, he added.

The latest statistics of Iran's Internet Penetration Management Portal put the number of Internet users in Iran at 40 million, indicating that the Internet penetration rate of the country stood at 53.29 percent in June 2014. About 11.07 million of the users in Iran have used GPRS connection to access the Internet over the same period.

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