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About 78.3 million manat invested in Azerbaijan’s ICT sector and postal communications

ICT Materials 28 October 2010 18:47 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.28 / Trend, H.Valiyev /

During January-September 78.3 million manat was invested in ICT sector and postal communications of Azerbaijan, which is 1.3 percent of total amount of investments, made in the Azerbaijani economy, the Azerbaijani Communication and Information Technologies Ministry's report on the results of nine months says.

About 10.4 million manat were spent for the reconstruction of regional telecommunication units. It allowed to put into operation new electronic automatic telephone exchanges with total capacity of 68,968 numbers in 29 regions.

The weight of Azerbaijan's electronic automatic telephone exchanges as of Oct. 1 totaled 92.9 percent. This rate hits 95.3 percent in Baku, 90.4 percent - other regions of the country. The level of rural electronic automatic telephone exchanges as of early October was 86.6 percent. In general, the growth of electronic automatic telephone exchanges in the republic amounted to 5,6 percent since early 2010.

At present, the total number of telephones falling to every 100 people throughout the country is 16.2 units. This rate hits 34.6 units, 10,7 units - in other regions of the country, 7 units - in rural areas.

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