Overview of the ICT sector in Kazakhstan

ICT sector in Kazakhstan is on the stage of infrastructure development and main services such as landlines, mobile communications and internet. For example, in 2008, only 23% of the population has landline communications in the city and 8% in the countryside. Similarly, internet penetration is only 8% and 1.6% for broadband internet. The access is limited to 256 kbps and it does not exceed 100 kbps in reality. Nonetheless, Kazakhstan has the most developed mobile infrastructure in the Central Asia region - in 2008, the mobile connection was available for 94% of Kazakhstan population. Read more...

• National ICT RTD sector report
• Recommendations on EU-EECA ICT R&D cooperation (note! section 2.5 refers to EU-Kazakhstan collaboration)

EECA Cluster contact point in Kazakhstan