Tajik officials expressed their intention to transform the Central Asian country into a centre of innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. If this always happens, they gotta figure out how to install inThe country's high-speed internet.
According to the latest Speedtest Global Index, Tajikistan is at the very end of Eurasia in terms of fixed broadband speed, taking 117th place in 155 countries worldwide. Dushanbe was not even ranked in terms of mobile connection speed.
Churszed Faizullozoda, head of the Presidential Agency for Digital Innovation and Technology, blamed the mountains for communications problems in Tajikistan. "About 93% of Tajikistan's territory is occupied by mountains, making net access difficult" — quoted by government agency Jumhuriyat.
He added that plans were being developed to increase server capacity and install fibre lines to improve net performance across the country. He then made a vague mention to the private sector playing an crucial function in this process.
"The 5G network will shortly be full implemented in the country", Faizullozoda promised, without going into detail, said Asia-Plus.
Faizullozda's argument that the mountain topography of Tajikistan hinders the efforts to digitize, encounters problems, although neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, which is besides overwhelmingly mountainous, ranked 82nd in the Speedtest ranking in terms of fixed broadband velocity (with more than twice as advanced velocity as in Tajikistan) and 76th in terms of mobile communications.
According to the index, Uzbekistan had the fastest permanent broadband in Central Asia, taking 76th place in the world. Azerbaijan (86th place) was recognized as the country with the fastest net in the Caucasus. Georgia, which traditionally held advanced places in economical freedom rankings, was ranked 114th, just before Tajikistan, in the Speedtest index on broadband speed.
Source: Eurasianet
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