Nurlan Meirmanov, Chief Innovation Officer of Kazakhtelecom (KT) told delegates at the Towards Digital Kazakhstan forum this week that the state-backed telco aims to migrate 50,000 ADSL fixed broadband subscriber lines to fibre-optic technology this year alone, while ‘about half a million more subscribers will be transferred from ADSL to optical and [fixed] wireless technologies within a few years.’
Meirmanov noted that KT’s ADSL subscriptions currently numbered roughly one million, with the operator targeting migration of services to optical technologies such as GPON and XGS-PON as well as new-generation fixed wireless access (FWA). In addition, the executive highlighted that KT continues to connect multi-apartment buildings in the Republic to high speed fixed internet via GPON, which to date connects more than 24,000 multi-apartment residential buildings in Kazakhstan, giving residents access to broadband at speeds up to 500Mbps alongside digital television and IP telephony.
KT reported in its recently-published annual report that its total fixed broadband internet subscription base reached 1.86 million at end-2021, up from 1.83 million a year earlier.