PR of the Ministry of ICT- Dr. Reza Taghipour, in a meeting with the deputies and general directors of parliamentary affairs of the ministries and public organizations and institutions said:" Now, the international portal has been established from the countries such as Russia, Armenia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iraq and Kuwait".
" The local communication will be established, whereas some lines has cut, by increasing International communication portal", he added.
Minister of ICT pointed to the country special position for changing to the region Hub and emphasized:" our country is considered as the best path for passing other countries traffic, in viewpoint of geographical position as well as the path and other available indicator".
"Now, the traffic which is conducting through our country is only 30GB/S but this indicator will be increased to one thousand and 300 times by launching the defined projects in this area", he added.
Dr. Reza Taghipour pointed to the high speed of changes in ICT area and said:" the first mobile was granted in 1995 in our country, while we are observing the variety of value-added services provided by mobile operators, now".
He pointed to the indicators changes in the tenth government and continued:"the growth of mobile SIM granting was 159 % during the tenth government period and more than 89 million SIM card has been sold to the applicants".
"Now, all roads of the country, except some rural roads, have covered by mobile network", he emphasized.
Minister of ICT said:" the growth of internal IP network was 239% and reached to 79 GB/S so it can be improved to 500 GB/S, based on the technical developments".
He pointed to the fifth development plan and continued:" according to this program, the national bandwidth capacity should be increased more than 25 times during the next five years and it has been scheduled to achieve it".
Dr. Reza Taghipour pointed to the programs defined for national IT development and said:" 8 major steps have been appointed to achieve a united Iran by managing the information in a united form".
"Also, several main indicators have been defined in the fifth development program in order to achieve e-government and provide e-services", he continued.
Minister of ICT pointed to the efforts done to create National Information Network and said:" This network has been created in different layers with some private networks such as banking, scientific, education and commerce networks".
He said that National Information Network is safe and secure to share the information and said:" creating national and provincial data center as well as defining the huge projects such as search engine has been scheduled for creating this network".