Kazakh communications market grows 16.7% in Q1
ALMATY. April 16 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's communications market grew 16.7% year-on-year in Q1 2012 to 140.2 billion tenge, the State Statistics Agency said.
Revenue from long-distance telephony fell 5.2% to 10.2 billion tenge, while revenue from local telephony rose 6.6% to 10.6 billion tenge. Internet revenue grew 29.4% to 23.3 billion tenge and cellular - 14.5% to 72.9 billion tenge (147.63 tenge/$1 on April 16).
Mobile communications revenue accounted for 52.1% of total communications revenue, Internet - 16.6%, local telephony - 7.6%, long-distance - 7.3% and other services - 12%.
Kazakhstan had 4.272 million fixed lines, 24.685 million cellular subscribers, 9.292 million of them with Internet access, and 1.407 million fixed Internet subscribers in Q1 2012.