Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 18 / Trend H. Valiyev /
The Russian segment of the fiber-optic backbone connecting the telecommunication infrastructure of national operators of Azerbaijan and Russia, will be ready in the second quarter, director of the Center of International Relations and Calculations under the Azerbaijani Communication and IT Ministry Jalil Jafarov told Trend.
Jafarov said that the construction work of the Azerbaijani segment of the cable line is fully completed. The further development of the project depends on MegaFon's decision now.
"Construction of the Russian segment will be completed in April", Jafarov said.
Realization of the project will expand the geographic presence of operators on the markets of Azerbaijan and Russia, as well as neighboring countries of the Caspian region.
Russian Synterra and Azerbaijani Azertelekom hold 50 percent share of Azerbaijani-Russian venture C-Ring Telecom. The documents were signed in Baku in 2009.
C-Ring Telecom will use resources and capabilities of Azertelecom's and Synterra's infrastructures in its projects on the territory of Azerbaijan and Russia. Azerbaijani business and the public will have a full access to a range of communication services offered by "Synterra", including services of international / long distance, rental of main channel services based on network IP MPLS, Internet access, network access data centers and distributed call-center.
The access to basic telecommunications services (voice, internet access) will be provided by Azertelecom, and the development of innovative services (data centers, call-center, GRID-technology, content services) -l C-Ring Telecom.