Development Bank of Kazakhstan launches financing of the project on providing broadband Internet access to rural population settlements in all regions of the country

10.07.19 19:40
/KASE, July 10, 2019/ – Development Bank of Kazakhstan (Nur-Sultan), whose bonds are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided the following press release to KASE: quote “Development Bank of Kazakhstan” JSC (a subsidiary of “Baiterek” National Management Holding” JSC, hereinafter DBK, Bank) opened financing for a project to provide broadband Internet access (hereinafter BBA) to rural settlements in all regions of the country (hereinafter referred to as the Project). The Project cost is 16.8 billion tenge. DBK provided a loan in the amount of 13.3 billion tenge for a period of 12 years. The remaining amount of necessary investments in the amount of 3.5 billion tenge will be provided by the borrower – “SilkNetCom” LLP. The Project is implemented on the terms of public-private partnership. Within the framework of the Project in 2020 it is planned to lay fiber-optic communication lines with a total length of 6,200 km from the existing backbone networks of “Transtelecom” JSC to all regions of the country, which will provide BBA for state bodies and budget institutions (over 1,200 broadband access points) in 421 villages. unquote Full version of the press release (in Russian) – http://kase.kz/files/emitters/BRKZ/brkz_reliz_100719_1.pdf [2019-07-10]