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Sergey Ivanov Orders to Have Internet Everywhere in Russia by 2015
In Russia, there should be no settlement without the Internet access by 2015, said First Vice Premier Sergey Ivanov when speaking at the meeting of IT and Communication Ministry. The wire telephone communication and communication via cell phones should cover the whole country by that date, the top-rank official made clear.
”I do emphasize, it is the question of any settlement irrespective of its economic weight and the population number, of each family having a phone,” Sergey Ivanov pointed out.
According to Ivanov, more than 43,000 settlements in Russia don’t have the access to Internet. Moreover, the ordinary telephone communication isn’t available there either.
Availability of Internet and telephone communication in any place of Russia is “a sort of the information revolution… which is bound to bring momentum to transformation of economy and of all sides of society's life,” Ivanov said.
Of interest is that roughly 14 percent of Russians don’t know about Internet now, showed the November 2006 survey of Levada Center.
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