Increasing Broadband Internet Penetration
In the OIC Member Countries
149
Figure 42: Monthly post-paid subscription of 1 GB cap USB (2012-2015) (in US$)
Source: International Telecommunications Union; Telecom Advisory Services analysisAs depicted in figure 42, Kazakhstan postpaid mobile broadband pricing was significantly
below other countries’. A consistently similar picture emerges when comparing fixed and
other mobile broadband plans (see table 87).
Table 87: Comparative broadband pricing (2015) (in US$)
Kazakhstan
Asian OIC
Member
Countries
All OIC
Member
Countries
OECD
Fixed-broadband monthly subscription 8.70 (*) 13.21 29.87 22.52
Mobile broadband handset_1GB, postpaid 5.52 (**) 6.49 9.73 33.99
Mobile broadband handset_500MB, prepaid 4.46 (***) 3.59 4.46 17.47
(*) This is price for 50 Mbps, unlimited
(**) As of YE 2016, Altel is postpaid 7GB CAP plan for US$ 2.8
(***) As of YE2016, Altel is offering prepaid 10 GB CAP plan for US$ 3.7
Source: International Telecommunications Union; Telecom Advisory Services analysisAccording to data in table 87, postpaid fixed and mobile broadband offers in Kazakhstan are
less expensive in absolute terms compared to Asian OIC, all the OIC and OECD countries.
Kazakhstan appears to have lost the price leadership only in prepaid price plans.
Investment in fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure
The telecommunications sector has been investing considerable amounts of capital in the
development of broadband networks. For example, Kazakhtelecom invested US$ 189 million
in the deployment of fiber optic distribution networks in Astana and Almaty between 2011
and 2014, US$ 251 million in the deployment of 4G (to proceed between 2012 and 2021), and
US$ 32 million to meet the demand of voice and broadband communications in rural areas107.
107 Source: Kazakhtelecom 2013 Annual Report.
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