OREANDA-NEWS. April 04, 2013. On the occasion of the anniversary Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Pavel Filip conferred upon 20 workers of Moldtelecom Maestro of IT &Communications, the press services of the IT Ministry informs.

The Minister rated high the contribution made by the enterprise in the area of electronic communications and adoption of new technologies in Moldova. Thanks to Moldtelecom, he said, 90% of Moldovans benefit from Internet connection at a speed of up to 20 Mbps. “Having the national fibre optic network at a length of nearly 12000 km, Moldtelecom furthers implementation of the Digital Moldova -2020 strategy in general and development of digital infrastructure in particular.

To date 855 cities, towns and villages of Moldova have been connected to the national fibre optic network. By 2020 each village of Moldova will have had at least one fibre optic Internet connecting centre”, the Minister said. Moldtelecom is the national electronic communications provider.

It was founded in 1993 as a result of restructuring of the telecommunications sector of Moldova. In 1999 the company was reorganized into a stock association the state has become the only founder and shareholder in.