Communications Regulator Releases 8-Month Report on ICT Development

Iran’s Communications Regulatory Authority has recently released a report on the development of information and communications technologies over the past eight years.
CRA attributes the expansion of connectivity services nationwide to the government’s agenda of converting Iran’s conventional economy to a digital one.
The report noted that as Iran’s communication infrastructure improved and people gained greater access to smart devices, internet usage boomed at an annual average rate of 29%.
Official data show mobile internet subscribers increased from 68.9 million at the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 20) to 76.5 million after six months.
The number of landline internet users reached 9.47 million by the end of the period, including xDSL with 7.7 million subscribers, FTTX with 118,000, WiFi with 313,000 and TD-LTE with 1.2 million subscribers.
Access to mobile internet and the number of users in social media channels have respectively grown by 75% and 18% annually, the report said.