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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 |