Azerbaijani media, citing the announcement of Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister, Abid Sharifov, reports that Regional communication commonwealth (RCC) is expanding mutually beneficial cooperation between communication administrations in the field of networking and communication equipment, information technologies and governing the radio frequency spectrum.
He said that the organization contributes to a fruitful cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union and the Universal Postal Union.
“Real GDP in Azerbaijan has increased threefold for the last seven to eight years in the industrial sector fourfold, in agriculture – by 1.3 times, in the construction sector by 3.1 times and in transport and ICT threefold,” Sharifov said adding “Around $102 billion has been drawn since 2004 to develop the economy from all sources of funding. Around 49.8 per cent were financed from domestic sources. During this period, around $38.1 billion was invested in the oil and gas sector and more than $60 billion was transferred to the non-oil sector, as well as to develop the financial sector of the economy.”
According to Deputy PM, the first Azerbaijani telecommunications satellite will be launched in early February 2013 and the satellite coverage area will include Europe, Asia, Africa and the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization.
