OREANDA-NEWS. November 26, 2008. A leading operator of Kazakhstan JSC "Kazakhtelecom" developing Kazakhstani segment of the Internet is providing technical support to major Kazakh portal "Region.kz - Center of KazNet". The portal offers its users a few large specialized information and social resources, reported the press-centre of Kazakhtelecom.

Placing Region.kz on the Internet site of the JSC "Kazakhtelecom" enables the portal to enter a list of resources recommended by users of "Megaline" service with the condition of free and unrestricted access at speeds up to 512 Kbps.

As the system building company in the telecommunication industry of Kazakhstan, JSC "Kazakhtelecom" is active in the development of the Kazakhstani segment of Internet (KazNet), creating optimum conditions for users and developers of Kazakhstani Internet projects. JSC "Kazakhtelecom" bets on a useful and interesting Web resources that can offer Kazakhstani users not only information but also on-line services. With the technical support of the JSC "Kazakhtelecom" were launched the first Kazakhstani blog-platform www.yvision.kz, file sharing services  www.filebar.kz  and www.gameworld.kz, as well as gaming portals are regularly held on-line tournaments series "Megaline Challenge".

JSC "Kazakhtelecom" announced the immediate technical support of many information portals with high quality kazakhstani content, which are combined like brand portals of the Region.kz.

Portal "Region.kz - Center of KazNet", http://www.region.kz, was launched in 2003 as a service e-Kazakhstani cards. Further development of the portal Region.kz was aimed at the creation of thematic information resource, providing free services for Kazakhs and KazNet developing.

The first and most popular Web resource is the music portal KZMZ, http://kzmz.region.kz, the audience of which is more than 3000 users per day. The portal KZMZ combines popular Kazakhstani artists and offers opportunities for novice musicians. On the KZMZ forum stars of Kazakhstani show-business answer the questions and active discussions are held.

The most popular among parents is the Portal for the whole family "Mama Plus", http://www.mama.kz, allows getting on-line consultation of qualified doctors and specialists, to communicate with parents from all over Kazakhstan, to receive accurate information about maternity, hospitals and many other useful information.

At the moment, there is a preparation to launch a new portal devoted to employment "The team of professionals CREW", http://crew.region.kz, which will offer unique services for Kazakhstan looking for work, professional social networks and new opportunities to communicate in three languages. At the moment operates a forum where current vacancies are published by major Kazakhstani companies. In the nearest future will be launched module of forming a professional CV online. This service should become very popular and in demand in KazNet.

"Our portal Region.kz - a door, which introduces the visitors with the possibilities of KazNet. The portal is constantly new resources, each of whom meets the requirements: specialization, professionalism, long-term prospects for the development of partnerships with other resources - said the top manager of the advertising agency DG, the developer of the portal Marat Tungatarov. - Our main mission - is the development of the Kazakhstani segment of the Internet. Today, Kazakhstani user use mostly overseas web resources. Our project "Region.kz - Center of KazNet" established for the purpose that Kazakhstani users have changed their choice for better one - in the quality of domestic resources and services ".

As Region.kz portal will be located at the web site of JSC "Kazakhtelecom", then the traffic for subscribers of "Megaline" is free and without any restriction on volume caller services. The speed access for subscribers tariff plans "Megaline Hit", "Megaline Box", "Megaline Light", "Megaline Start" of up to 512 Kbps, and for users of tariff plan "Megaline Turbo" - up to 1024 Kbps.

The work of the JSC "Kazakhtelecom" on the development of KazNet already confirmed positive statistics. Results of policy differentiation of traffic services for subscribers "Megaline" (individuals) have shown a gradual increase in the share of domestic traffic. So during the March-October 2008 the share of domestic traffic increased from 10% to 50% - is 5 times more than in the beginning of the year.

JSC "Kazakhtelecom" interested in developing local content that is - KazNet. Currently, many sites located outside the Kazakhstani segment of the Internet. This affects the substantial costs of the organization access to the Internet in Kazakhstan - commented Chief Commercial Director of JSC "Kazakhtelecom" Askar Yeserkegenov. - By lowering tariffs for the hosting of JSC "Kazakhtelecom", we are creating an attractive environment for the development of KazNet and look forward to the emergence of unique, thematic and social projects with online services. This, of course, affects and reduce tariffs on Internet access services for users of Kazakhstan". Additional projects of Region.kz

Informational Portal COMPORT, http://comport.region.kz - IT portal catalog of products and IT forum with expert advice. Also sponsored by professional directory of web resources COMPORT, http://comport.region.kz/webcatalog. 

Sport portal SportPRim, http://sportprim.region.kz  - a pilot project aimed at promoting the sport of Kazakhstan.

Travel Forum Xland, http://xland.region.kz  - a new tourist's forum of Kazakhstan.

Blogs on Region.kz, http://blogs.region.kz  - blogging service for Kazakhstani users.