OREANDA-NEWS. December 04, 2012. Particularly, delegates familiarized with activity of Astanatelecom MTC iDCentre, data center, Telepresence service, and visited Museum of communication. Issues of state regulation of some communication services, innovational directions, installing telephones and providing internet connection of rural areas have been touched at the meeting on issues of Kazakhtelecom JSC activity. Development of high speed Internet in rural area will be used as push to further growth of village economy and prosperity of rural residents, reported the press-centre of Kazakhtelecom.

Within the meeting issues of tariff policy realization have been touched. Kazakhtelecom JSC carries out system work in this direction. Thus, rates to foreign countries calls reduced to 9 times, up to 25% to trunk communication services, payment for telecom operators attachment reduced from 2,6 to 3,9 times, rates for international traffic pass of local telecom operators reduced from 1,5 to 2 times. Tariffing step by trunk telephony reduced from minutes to seconds, by international telephony – to ten seconds, that allowed reducing subscribers’ costs to 25 %. From 2006 cost of 1 Mbit/s for Megaline subscribers – physical persons reduced to 22 times, iDNet - to 219 times. Rates for legal entities reduced to 22 times. In 2012 one-time fee for Internet for physical persons also reduced to 6 %.

Kazakhtelecom JSC actively participates in realization of  such national telecommunication programs as: Strategic development plan of RK till 2020, National program by forced industrial –innovational development of RK to 2010 – 2014, Program on development of information and communication technologies in RK to 2010 – 2014, Strategic development plan of the Ministry of transport and communication of RK . Besides, Kazakhtelecom JSC realized State rural territories development program, also Program for broadband organization in schools of RK.