19% increase in ICT services volume recorded in Azerbaijan

According to information provided to ICTnews by the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, during January-August of 2012, the volume of ICT services rendered to the population, state and private sectors in Azerbaijan amounted to AZN 898.3 million.

The committee says that the rate of growth of this sector over the past period in comparable prices made up 18.7 percent. Information and communication services rendered to the population accounted for 72.2 percent of the total volume of ICT services.

Mobile communication services accounted for 59.9 percent of the total revenue, which is 16,5 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. During the reporting period, the total volume of revenue generated by mobile communication services made up AZN 537,7 million.

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