Kazakhtelecom (KT) reported on its website that it has connected over 50 additional residential complexes in Kazakhstan’s capital city Astana to its GPON fibre broadband network footprint in January-September 2023, giving 20,500 more households the opportunity to connect to higher speed, reliable fixed internet at up to 500Mbps with better support for multiple online devices. In an acceleration of the rollout, by the end of 2023 KT plans to deploy GPON to another 90 residential complexes plus 300 private residential buildings in Astana and nearby settlements, covering a further 30,000 households.
KT also issued a statement saying that its mobile subsidiaries Kcell and Mobile Telecom Service (Tele2-Altel) jointly plan to deploy nearly 800 5G base stations across the country in total by the end of this year, noting that since the beginning of this year – following the mobile sister operators’ consortium 5G spectrum licence win at end-2022 – 266 5G base stations have already been built, with 516 additional base stations scheduled for launch by end-2023. As reported earlier this month by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate Kazakhstan’s Minister of Digital Development Bagdat Musin had claimed that more than 1,000 5G base stations would be installed by end-2023 in the largest three cities of Almaty, Astana and Shymkent alone by Kcell and Tele2-Altel, but KT’s latest statement appears to clarify the total will be slightly lower, and spread across at least seven large and small cities. KT also highlights that it is carrying out significant fibre network backhaul rollouts to connect the group’s 5G base stations. The telco reiterated that by the end of 2027 Kcell and Tele2-Altel are committed to install more than 7,000 5G base stations between them covering approximately 80% of the country’s population.
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