The assertion of our country as a key link in the Central Asian region is the most important information and communication bridge between East and West, North and South contributes to the development of the national telecommunications system that meets international standards and ensures the quality of information communication.
As a result of the comprehensive modernization and diversification of industry infrastructure, the use of the most advanced equipment and innovations in the country successfully operates an extensive communication system, digital broadcasting, and electronic document management system. Developed network of telephone stations provide high-speed channels to connect to broadband Internet and data transfer. It is rapidly growing customer network of the national operator of «Altyn Asyr» mobile communication.
With the launch into outer space of the first national satellite opens more opportunities and conditions for the establishment of appropriate international standards of telecommunication systems, high-quality broadcasting. The improvement of the legal and regulatory activities in the field of information and telecommunications continues.
Currently, the scope of Telecommunications is one of the most dynamic sectors of the national economy. In January-September 2016 enterprises of the Ministry of Communications, including the Closed Joint Stock Company «Altyn Asyr», «Ashgabat urban telephone network» and «Turkmen Hemrasy» obtained operating revenues of more than 1.1 billion manat, which is 4, 5 percent more than in the corresponding period of 2015. According to this indicator, the set programme goal exceeded by 5.5 percent. The volume of sales to the public communication services grew by 1.7 percent.
According to the State Committee of Turkmenistan by statistics, the total income from the sale of services on communication for the period of January-August 2016 amounted to more than 1.7 billion manat and increased by 13.5 per cent compared with the corresponding period of 2015.
By resolving the tasks assigned to the industry by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov it takes consistent measures to diversify multivariate international telephone traffic and data.
Today, Turkmenistan has five joint international backbone fiber-optic communication lines laid in the country - it is Ashhabad- Badjigiran (Iran), Serhetabat- Herat (Afghanistan), Ymamnazar - Akin (Afghanistan), Turkmenabat - Bukhara (Uzbekistan) and Garabogaz - Fetisov (Kazakhstan).
There are two main fiber-optical systems in our country: the circular railroad Ashgabat-Mary-Turkmenabat-Dashoguz-Ashgabat, and the radial one as Garabogaz-Turkmenbashi -Ashgabat-Mary-Turkmenabat-Atamyrat-Ymamnazar, which docked with the network of neighboring countries. Their construction projects are implemented on the basis of DWDM technology - multi-channel optical systems with channel capacity of 100 gigabits per second for passing international transit and local streams.
It is annually increasing length of trunk and intra-cable communication lines with the ability to connect subscribers to broadband Internet. Today, the telecommunications network of our country is operated by more than 800 telephone stations, over 90 percent of which are digital.
More than half of the residential buildings are covered by «fibers towards homes», continues the replacement of physical cables to fiber-optic lines in all localities of the country, thus expanding access to modern high-tech telecommunications services. It is growing number of users of Internet services at high pace. Over the past five years, this figure increased almost 5 times. Each year, the Ministry of Communications increases external internet stream by 30-40 percent.
Currently, internet services are based on ADSL technology and Wi-Fi is the provided lines. A new generation of telephone station on NGN technology at regional and district centers allows establishing simultaneous use of telephone and Internet communications services.
There is widespread installation of cellular base stations which allows providing high speed data transmission. Today, the territorial zone of covering settlements countrywide is more than 97 percent.
It is laid about 20.5 thousand kilometers of lines in accordance with the framework of the «National Program of President of Turkmenistan on improvement of social and living conditions of the population of villages, settlements, cities in districts and district centers for the period up until 2020», from 2008 to the present time in the regions.
In just a few years, the number of mobile subscribers is increased by more than half. National mobile operator «Altyn Asyr» provides services of cellular communication and mobile Internet on 2G GPRS technology, 3G WCDMA and 4G LTE under the trademark TMCELL. It is undergoing systematic work on improving the quality and expanding the range of services and network coverage.
In this connection, the upcoming Asian Games of Indoor and Martial Arts in Ashgabat of the next year will bring together athletes from 62 countries, measures are taken to ensure the technical quality of streaming, multimedia products, growth capacity of external Internet channel and the number of Internet users.
As a result of the comprehensive modernization and diversification of industry infrastructure, the use of the most advanced equipment and innovations in the country successfully operates an extensive communication system, digital broadcasting, and electronic document management system. Developed network of telephone stations provide high-speed channels to connect to broadband Internet and data transfer. It is rapidly growing customer network of the national operator of «Altyn Asyr» mobile communication.
With the launch into outer space of the first national satellite opens more opportunities and conditions for the establishment of appropriate international standards of telecommunication systems, high-quality broadcasting. The improvement of the legal and regulatory activities in the field of information and telecommunications continues.
Currently, the scope of Telecommunications is one of the most dynamic sectors of the national economy. In January-September 2016 enterprises of the Ministry of Communications, including the Closed Joint Stock Company «Altyn Asyr», «Ashgabat urban telephone network» and «Turkmen Hemrasy» obtained operating revenues of more than 1.1 billion manat, which is 4, 5 percent more than in the corresponding period of 2015. According to this indicator, the set programme goal exceeded by 5.5 percent. The volume of sales to the public communication services grew by 1.7 percent.
According to the State Committee of Turkmenistan by statistics, the total income from the sale of services on communication for the period of January-August 2016 amounted to more than 1.7 billion manat and increased by 13.5 per cent compared with the corresponding period of 2015.
By resolving the tasks assigned to the industry by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov it takes consistent measures to diversify multivariate international telephone traffic and data.
Today, Turkmenistan has five joint international backbone fiber-optic communication lines laid in the country - it is Ashhabad- Badjigiran (Iran), Serhetabat- Herat (Afghanistan), Ymamnazar - Akin (Afghanistan), Turkmenabat - Bukhara (Uzbekistan) and Garabogaz - Fetisov (Kazakhstan).
There are two main fiber-optical systems in our country: the circular railroad Ashgabat-Mary-Turkmenabat-Dashoguz-Ashgabat, and the radial one as Garabogaz-Turkmenbashi -Ashgabat-Mary-Turkmenabat-Atamyrat-Ymamnazar, which docked with the network of neighboring countries. Their construction projects are implemented on the basis of DWDM technology - multi-channel optical systems with channel capacity of 100 gigabits per second for passing international transit and local streams.
It is annually increasing length of trunk and intra-cable communication lines with the ability to connect subscribers to broadband Internet. Today, the telecommunications network of our country is operated by more than 800 telephone stations, over 90 percent of which are digital.
More than half of the residential buildings are covered by «fibers towards homes», continues the replacement of physical cables to fiber-optic lines in all localities of the country, thus expanding access to modern high-tech telecommunications services. It is growing number of users of Internet services at high pace. Over the past five years, this figure increased almost 5 times. Each year, the Ministry of Communications increases external internet stream by 30-40 percent.
Currently, internet services are based on ADSL technology and Wi-Fi is the provided lines. A new generation of telephone station on NGN technology at regional and district centers allows establishing simultaneous use of telephone and Internet communications services.
There is widespread installation of cellular base stations which allows providing high speed data transmission. Today, the territorial zone of covering settlements countrywide is more than 97 percent.
It is laid about 20.5 thousand kilometers of lines in accordance with the framework of the «National Program of President of Turkmenistan on improvement of social and living conditions of the population of villages, settlements, cities in districts and district centers for the period up until 2020», from 2008 to the present time in the regions.
In just a few years, the number of mobile subscribers is increased by more than half. National mobile operator «Altyn Asyr» provides services of cellular communication and mobile Internet on 2G GPRS technology, 3G WCDMA and 4G LTE under the trademark TMCELL. It is undergoing systematic work on improving the quality and expanding the range of services and network coverage.
In this connection, the upcoming Asian Games of Indoor and Martial Arts in Ashgabat of the next year will bring together athletes from 62 countries, measures are taken to ensure the technical quality of streaming, multimedia products, growth capacity of external Internet channel and the number of Internet users.
