TECH | 13:17 / 20.01.2022
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95% of settlements in Uzbekistan are covered by mobile Internet – Uzbektelecom
95% of settlements in Uzbekistan are covered by mobile Internet, Deputy Director-General of Uzbektelecom Alisher Zufarov said at a briefing.
According to him, 54% of households are connected to high-speed Internet, and in the near future, the figure will reach at least 80%.
Zufarov noted that 50,000 km of fiber optic lines were laid in the country last year. Their total length now exceeds 122 thousand km. As a result, about 67% of settlements received access to high-speed communications.
He also informed about the tariff for operators and Internet service providers: over the past year it has decreased by 42.9% and today it is 30,000 soums per 1 Mbps.
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