OREANDA-NEWS. On November 19, 2007 JSC “Uzbektelecom” has signed an additional agreement to the basic one with Rostelecom, reported the press-centre of Uzbektelecom.

The parties agreed within this document to expand significantly a capacity of existing channel to provide Uzbektelecom with access to Global Internet via data networks of Rostelecom. That agreement was signed by Uzbektelecom General Director Kh. Mukhitdinov and Director of Department on Sales and Customer Services of Rostelecom O. Roumyantseva in the course of work of the 38th meeting of RCC’ Governors held in Astana (Kazakhstan) on 12-14 November, 2007. 

This agreement was concluded thanks to the partnership between two national operators as well as due to the development of continuous relations in the field modern telecommunication services in the framework of RCC activity. The main incentive to sign that agreement was a rapid growth of Internet users in Uzbekistan. Number of users exceeded 1800 thousand people in October given that number of users increased by more than 50% during the last year.