Kazakhstan

1. Country: Kazakhstan
1.1 Country suffix: .kz
1.2 Population: 14 952 400
Area: 2 724 900 sq km
Capital: Astana

2. Estimated number of hosts in the local Internet
~2000-8000 (rough estimation)

3. Estimated number of users in the educational/commercial/governmentalsectors:
educational 2500
commercial 32500
governmental 15000

4. List of major commercial ISP's
 

1. Nursat
2. Astel 
3.Kazakhstan Online 
4. BankNet
www.nursat.kz
www.astel.kz
www.online.kz
www.banknet.kz

5. List of major non-commercial ISP's
1. Internet Training Center (partly funded by OSI)

6. Internet Service Providers operating their own backbone networks:

I. Nursat (Joint Venture of Kazinformtelecom & Lu cent Technologies)
Links 21 major cities, satellite, based on Intelsat, 64k-2M
Foreign connections: 2Mb link to Moscow,
2Mb satellite connection to London,
2Mb satellite connection to New York
Commercial ISP

II. Astel (Arna-Sprin t Data Communications, partner of Global One)
Links 20 major cities, mostly X.25 128k, satellite 2MB, FrameRelay, ATM
Foreign connections:Moscow 2Mb,
USA, Frontler Global Center (Intelsat, 2MB)
Commercial ISP

III Kazakhstan Online (venture of Kazakhtelecom)
Links 19 major cities, Wideband ATM, fiber optical(42M), radio relay(2M), satellite 128k
Foreign connections:
Moscow, Global One (earth 2M);
London, Cable & Wreless (earth 2M), additional 2M satellite backups
USA, Frontler Global Center (Intelsat, 2MB)
Commercial ISP

IV BankNet (closed joint-stock company)
Links 19 major cities, mostly X.25, TCP/IP, Frame Relay.
Foreign connections:
no information. It is banking network. SWIFT, DowJones, Bloomberg
Commercial ISP

7. Country specific search Web-sites:
www.site.kz - the best, but in Russian

8. More information about country:

Date:  24.I.2000

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