ICT services worth $300m provided to Azerbaijani population in two months
By Nigar Orujova
Information and communication services in the amount of $300 million were rendered to the Azerbaijani population and organizations in the first two months of 2013.
Azerbaijan's State Statistics Committee reported on Friday that the figure exceeds that of January-February 2012 by 16 percent. Most of the services -- 72.2 percent -- were provided to the population.
During the reporting period, mobile communication revenues made up 57.2 percent of the overall amount, which exceeds the figure recorded in the same period of 2012 by 12.5 percent.
In 2012, ICT revenues exceeded $1.7 billion, which is 18 percent more than in 2011.
2013, which was declared the year of information and communication technologies in Azerbaijan in accordance with a presidential decree, is promising in terms of the development of the country's ICT sector.
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