Government to Expand Rural ICT Infrastructure by Aug.

While detailing government efforts for expansion of ICT infrastructure in rural areas, the minister of communications and information technologies said all villages in Zanjan Province will be connected to the internet by August.
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi added that 100 villages with over 20 households in Zanjan will be connected to the internet soon, IRIB reported. 
“In a matter of weeks, all 712 villages will be connected to the internet. A total of 102,000 households are living in these villages,” he said.
During a trip to the province last week, the minister inaugurated 155 communication sites in rural areas to provide 15,000 residents and 250 schools with internet access. The sites were established with 1.34 billion rials ($5,150) of investment. The new connections increased the number of rural areas with internet access to 611.