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Internet In Kazakhstan
The Internet in Kazakhstan (Country code top-level domain, ccTLD: .kz) is growing rapidly. Between 2001 and 2005, the number of Internet users increased from 200,000 to 1 million. By 2007, Kazakhstan reported Internet penetration levels of 8.5 percent, rising to 12.4 percent in 2008 and 34.3% in 2010. By 2013, Kazakhstani officials reported Internet penetration levels of 62.2 percent, with about 10 million users. There are five first-tier ISPs with international Internet connections and approximately 100 second-tier ISPs that are purchasing Internet traffic from the first-tier ISPs. As of 2019, more than 75% of Kazakhstan's population has access to the internet, a figure well ahead of any other country in Central Asia. The Internet consumption in the country rose from 356 PB in 2018 to 1,000 PB in 2022. As of 2021 Kazakhstan is currently rated "not free" by Freedom House's Freedom on the Net report. Penetration The National Statistical Agency reports that 73 percent of Kazakh user ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Language
Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' De facto#National languages, official language of the former Soviet Union.1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russia, Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Russian language in Israel, Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the List of languages by number of speakers in Europe, most spoken native language in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transaction Network Services
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is a privately held, multinational company in the payments, financial and telecommunications industries. TNS is the supplier of networking, integrated data, and voice services to many organizations in the global payments and financial communities, as well as a provider of telecommunications network solutions to service providers. History * 1990 – TNS founded in the US to provide services to the point-of-sale/payments industry * 1994 – Initial public offering – NASDAQ listed * 1995 – TNS' Telecommunications Services division launched * 1996 – International offices launched in the UK, Canada and Ireland and TNS' Financial Services division launched * 1998 – Acquired AT&T's Transaction Access Service (USA) * 1999 – Offices opened in Australia, France and Japan. Processing services launched in the UK. Listed on the NYSE. * 1999 – Acquired by PSINet for $705 million (US$1.1 Billion (2019)) * 2000 – Office opened in Spain * 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
