The Minister of Communications announced that according to the legal possibility of the 7th Development Plan, the formation of the International Communications Company is under consideration. If this company is formed, it will operate in the field of data transit and may be assigned part of the tasks of the infrastructure communication company
According to the Iran digital economy annotation, Eisa Zarepour, Minister of Communications, on the sidelines of a meeting with the managers of digital economy companies in Alborz province, which was held in Payam Economic Zone, told the attached reporter: There is also for data transit, there is a need for an agile set, because many things do not fit in the form of a public company.
He continued: In many places, you need to sell below the price to capture the market, in some places you may give special offers. Second, there is a need for an agile private company in the field of building shared infrastructure with other countries, data centers and cloud services. It was also in the sixth program but it was not formed.
According to him, it has not yet been decided to which person or group the ownership of this company will be transferred, but it should definitely not be the government.
The Minister of Communications also said about this company: Part of the infrastructure tasks that require financial and commercial interactions with foreign countries may be assigned to this company.
For example, the data transit capacity has more than doubled and reached 3.1 terabits per second. We are looking to increase it to five and for that we need such a company.
Are the operators’ long-term packages coming back?
Ten days ago, the Competition Council required the operators to return bulky packages. The Minister of Communications asked this council to show support in the specialized and legal fields of this ministry.
Eisa Zarepour said: This area is the work area of the Ministry of Communications. In this regard, a joint working group has been formed with the Competition Council. We hope that friends will pay more attention to the expert opinions of the Ministry of Communications. We are looking to provide high-quality and high-speed internet in the form of better packages. The capacities of the Competition Council will surely help, but I request them to provide maximum support and cooperation in the legal fields of the communication department.
8 million fiber optic coverage by the end of the year
Zarepour also said in the group of digital economy activists of Alborz province: Digital economy is meaningless without a high-speed and secure network. It is movable. Now, nearly 4.5 million households are covered, and by the end of the year, we will reach 8 million. In the seventh plan, the discussion of connecting 20 million households has been raised, which will create a revolution.
The Minister of ICT said about optical fiber: “With the launch of this project, we will migrate from speeds of megabits per second to gigabit per second.” Some headlined Zarepour saying that the country’s internet speed is 1 gigabit per second. I did not say such a thing. God willing, we will reach this speed in three years, but now such a possibility is not available to all people.
He pointed to other clauses of the 7th Development Plan: The next topic in the 7th Development Plan is the issue of digital economy and intelligentization. We were obliged to write the artificial intelligence document. All the devices were obliged to approve the plan of using new technologies. This itself will bring a lot of requests to the private sector in the discussion of intelligence.
Zarepour added: Even if 50% of the tasks of the 7th plan are implemented, a revolution will happen in this field.
In response to the complaint of one of the audience about the carelessness of domestic phone production, he said: Phone is a social technology. For some time now, people have been thinking differently about Iranian phones due to the intense media atmosphere
The tasks of this department are the responsibility of several ministries. The production and import sector is the responsibility of the Ministry of Security, and we are responsible for the discussion of the operating system.
This cabinet member of the 13th government said about welcoming domestic production in ICT products: sometimes there is a product, but it is preferred to use a foreign product. Of course, this is a double-edged sword. Sometimes a call is given to buy a pen, for example, someone says I will deliver in three months, but in the end it doesn’t produce.
Or, for example, domestic production is carried out, but the production capacity is low. For example, we need fiber optic modems in the country now. If 8 million coverages are created by the end of the year and 20% of them are connected, 1.5 million modems are needed.
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