A Sector Assessment : Accelerating Growth of High-Speed Internet Services in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan s development at the beginning of the XXI century is characterized by the great success story of its petroleum industry, which has propelled Azerbaijan to the level of the most rapidly growing economies in Europe and Central Asia. While oil and gas reserves are finite and their extraction and transportation is largely impacted by exogenous factors the Government of Azerbaijan has recently focused its policies on economic diversification, which, among others, prioritizes public investment spending to boost the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. It is envisaged that by 2020 Azerbaijan s ICT sector should become one of the main contributors to the non-oil GDP and should facilitate country s transition into the knowledge economy. Telecommunications liberalization, modernization and extension of the national telecom infrastructure, implementation of e-government, and other sector-specific policies have helped stimulate the growth of the local ICT sector which since 2005 has been expanding at an average rate of 25-30 percent. The telecom industry, especially its mobile segment, has fueled the overall ICT sector development. The number of Internet users has soared from only 17 percent in 2008 to 73 percent in 2013. By 2014, the wireless penetration per capita grew at over 100 percent, around one third of the population gained mobile broadband access, and 30 percent of Azerbaijan s households subscribed to fixed (wired) broadband Internet.

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014-12-18
Subjects:	3G, ACCESS TARIFFS, ACTION PLAN, ADSL, AFFORDABLE ACCESS, AVERAGE PRICES, BACKBONE, BACKUP, BANDWIDTH, BROADBAND, BROADBAND ACCESS, BROADBAND CONNECTIONS, BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY, BROADBAND NETWORK, BROADBAND NETWORKS, BROADBAND SERVICE, BROADBAND SERVICES, BROADCASTING, BROADCASTING SERVICES, BUSINESS CLIMATE, BUSINESS MODEL, BUSINESSES, CAPITAL INVESTMENT, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, COMMUNICATION SERVICES, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, COMPETITIVENESS, COMPUTER PRICES, COMPUTER USERS, COMPUTERS, CONNECTION SPEED, CONNECTION SPEEDS, CONNECTIVITY, CONSUMER PROTECTION, COPYING, COPYRIGHT, CUSTOMER BASE, DATA TRANSMISSION, DATA TRANSMISSION CAPACITY, DEDICATED LINE, DEVICES, DIGITAL, DIGITAL CONTENT, DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT, E-MAIL, E-SERVICES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, END CUSTOMERS, END USER, END-USER, EQUIPMENT, EXPENDITURE, FIBER OPTICS, FIBRE OPTIC, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FREQUENCY BANDS, GATEWAYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS, GOVERNMENT ENTITIES, GOVERNMENT REVENUE, HIGH-SPEED, ICT, ID, IMPLEMENTATION OF E-GOVERNMENT, INDEXES, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION ECONOMICS, INFORMATION SOCIETY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION, INSTALLATION, INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON, INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION, INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION, INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION, INTERNET ACCESS, INTERNET BANDWIDTH, INTERNET CONNECTIVITY, INTERNET DEVELOPMENT, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, INTERNET SERVICES, INTERNET TRAFFIC, INVENTORY, INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE, IP, ISP, ISPS, ITU, KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, LABOR MARKET, LEASED LINES, LICENSE, LICENSES, LICENSING, LOOPS, MANUFACTURING, MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, MARKET ANALYSIS, MARKET CONCENTRATION, MARKET CONDITIONS, MARKET DEFINITION, MARKET DEVELOPMENT, MARKET DEVELOPMENTS, MARKET FAILURE, MARKET FAILURES, MARKET INFORMATION, MARKET POWER, MARKET SHARE, MARKET SHARES, MARKET STRUCTURE, MARKET VALUE, MATERIAL, MESSAGING, MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, MOBILE NETWORK, MOBILE PHONE, MOBILE TELEPHONE, MOBILE TELEPHONY, MONOPOLY, NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, NETWORK MODELS, NEXT GENERATION, ONLINE PAYMENTS, OPEN ACCESS, OUTSOURCING, PDF, PENETRATION OF BROADBAND, PENETRATION RATE, PENETRATION RATES, PHONE CONNECTION, PILOT PROJECT, POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES, PPP, PRIVATE INVESTMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRODUCTIVITY, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PURCHASING, PURCHASING POWER, QUALITY OF SERVICES, QUERIES, RADIO, RADIO FREQUENCIES, REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT, REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, RESULT, RESULTS, RETAIL, RETAIL PRICES, SALE, SERVICE PROVIDER, SITES, SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT, SPEECH, STOCKS, SUBSTITUTION, SUBSTITUTION EFFECT, SURPLUS, TARGETS, TAXATION, TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS, TELECOM, TELECOM SERVICES, TELECOMMUNICATION, TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK, TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR, TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, TELECOMS, TELEGEOGRAPHY, TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE, TELEPHONE LINE, TELEPHONE LINES, TELEPHONE NETWORK, TELEPHONY PENETRATION, THIRD MARKET, TIME FRAME, TRADITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE, UNIVERSAL SERVICE, USER, USERS, VALUE CHAIN, WEB, WEBSITES, WIRELESS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/12/23899156/accelerating-growth-high-speed-internet-services-azerbaijan-sector-assessment-azerbaijan-broadband-note https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21502
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