|
The Internet in Kazakhstan (ccTLD: .kz) is growing rapidly. Between 2001 and 2005, the number of Internet users increased from 200,000 to 1 million. By 2007, Kazakhstan reported Internet penetration levels of 8.5 percent, rising to 12.4 percent in 2008. In 2010, Internet penetration level reached 34.3 percent. By 2013, Kazakhstan officials reported Internet penetration levels of 62.2 percent. There are five first-tier ISPs with international Internet connections and approximately 100 second-tier ISPs that are purchasing Internet traffic from the first-tier ISPs. ==Penetration and ISPs== The National Statistical Agency reports that 73 percent of users access the Internet by dial-up, 15 percent by means of ADSL, and 6 percent using satellite access. Over 50 percent of users accessed the Internet from home in 2008.4 Forty-two percent of families living in towns with populations of at least 70,000 people have a personal computer. KazakhTelekom (KT) reported an increase in its broadband subscriber base from 270,000 to 456,000 in 2008.5 Despite these increases, Internet usage is concentrated in urban centers, while outside those centers access remains beyond the reach of most Kazakhs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://opennet.net/research/profiles/kazakhstan ) This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons attribution license.〕 The official language in the country is Kazakh, spoken by 64 percent of the population. Russian, spoken by 85 percent, is recognized as the official language of international communication.〔http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/mapping-digital-media-kazakhstan-eng-20131024.pdf〕 Russian is the most popular language used on the Internet (94.1 percent), followed by Kazakh (4.5 percent), and English (1.4 percent), a figure which may account for the high percentage of Kazakh Web sites hosted in Russia (including those on the country-code domain name “.kz”). Six percent of “.kz” domain Web sites are hosted in Kazakhstan, with the remainder hosted in Russia and elsewhere.〔 The cost of Internet access remains high relative to the average salary (54,500 tenge in 2008, or USD 363). KazakhTelecom’s tariffs for unlimited ADSL access with capacity of 128 kbit/s were USD 30. However, as a result of the ongoing liberalization in the telecommunications sector in 2007, the operators’ tariffs fell considerably. Since 2007, schools in Kazakhstan are provided with free dial-up access, which is being expanded to include broadband connections (although access is restricted to Web sites and other Internet resources within the “.kz” domain).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Internet in Kazakhstan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|