Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 25
By Rashid Shirinov – Trend:
Kazakhstan holds the 57th place in the world ranking in terms of fixed Internet speed – 28.9 Mb/s, Finprom.kz reported.
Among the EAEU countries, the country ranks third after Russia and Belarus.
The absolute world leader is Singapore with a speed of 184 Mb/s, followed by Iceland and Hong Kong, with 153.17 and 136.43 Mb/s, respectively.
It is worth noting that for three quarters of this year, Internet service providers of Kazakhstan provided access to the World Wide Web in the volume of 180.5 billion tenge. This is 6.7 percent more than in the same period last year.
However, despite the tangible growth in the volume of services provided, the number of Internet subscribers at the end of September decreased by 1.6 percent year-to-year, from 2.5 million to 2.45 million users.
The largest number of high-speed Internet users is in Astana city – 675,300 users. Almaty is second with 354,500 users, and the Almaty region is third with 173,100 users.