PM Askar Mamin meets with CIS ministers for communications

AKIPRESS.COM - Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin received a delegation of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC), as well as Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union Zhao Houlin and Director General of the Universal Postal Union Bishar A. Hussein, the press service of the Prime Minister said.
Mamin was informed about the course of the 25th meeting of the Coordination Council of the CIS Member States on Informatization under the RCC (Sep. 16-17, 2019, Nur-Sultan), as well as preparations for the World Radiocommunication Conference, which will open at the end of October 2019 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
He noted that Kazakhstan pays great attention to the introduction of 5G communication technologies, the expansion of broadband Internet access, as well as other projects on informatization and digitalization, which have a serious effect on the development of the Kazakhstani economy and increasing its competitiveness.
The PM told about Kazakhstan's plans to create a transport infrastructure capable of providing telecommunication traffic to Russia, China and Central Asia.
He invited the RCC members to take part in the forthcoming forum "Digital Agenda in the Era of Globalization 2.0" in February 2020 in Almaty.