The Ministry of Communications & Information Technologies of Azerbaijan is carrying out work in accordance with the implementation of the Clauses Creation of Network of Internet Connection (Backphone) in Azerbaijan and Organization of Wide-band Internet of the State Program for Development of Information-Communications Technologies in Azerbaijan in 2005-2008 (Electronic Azerbaijan). Presently the number of wide-band Internet subscribers in the capital has increased two-fold at 1,000, Trend reports with reference to the Ministry.
To apply these services in the regions of Azerbaijan, the Production Unit Aztelekom has installed equipment for wide-band Internet networks in Ganja, Sumgait, Mingachevir, Sheki, Guba, Khachmaz, Goychay, Zakatala, Apsheron, Shamkir and Yevlakh, and at present; more than 300 subscribers have the option to use speed Internet.
Wide Band access to the internet allows the information to be sent promptly. Asymmetric technology makes it more user-friendly for the modern attachments where the volume of the data forwarded to the subscribers increases the volume of the forwarded data.
Presently, more than 30 Internet providers function in the region of Azerbaijan, the Ministry informed