50 percent of Azerbaijan`s population use global net
Baku, January 6 (AZERTAC). Number of internet users in Azerbaijan makes up 50 percent of the population, approximately. Access to the broadband Internet averages 12 percent, the indicator which prevails over the world indices by 2 times. In the latest 2 years, the Internet prices have become cheaper by 10 times, the Statistics say.
The IT sector has become by 5 times larger in the last 6 years, with a yearly growth rate of 30-32 percent, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies said. This is by 3 times more than the world indices.
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