PR of the Ministry of ICT - Dr. Reza Taghipour in the opening ceremony of Telecom exhibition said:" this development will be in the communication networks and their applications".
"The quality and quantity of Telecom exhibition has been grown comparing in last year and technologist and foreign companies' attendance with the updated productions and new technologies there shows a rapid growth in the country's communication", he added.
He pointed that we hope this exhibition has an important role in ICT development.
Minister of ICT said that we have targeted to export telecommunication industries and new technologies in the fifth development plan and continued: two percent of export of the non-petroleum products will be allocated to telecommunication industries.
Dr. Reza Taghipour pointed that more than 97 percent of the population is covered by communication and continued: "Today, nearly 100 percent of the population is covered by mobile communication from the viewpoint of geographic and population".
He pointed that the government is implementing the outsourcing plan for authority positions and added:" some of these policies includes: granting the third generation mobile license to the private sector".
Minister of ICT said that granting the third-generation mobile license to the private sector is one of the ministry's policies for outsourcing and continued: "a two-year security period has been considered for exploiting the third operator so no similar license will be issued during this time in order to justify this investment".
"Part of the government debt in the "Budget Law in 89" has been paid through this project and telecom provider company has paid the primal concession fee after receiving the license on 30/5/89 so that would not be reversible if the project be cancelled for any reason", he continued.
Dr. Reza Taghipour pointed to the national data center project and said we will receive warmly all organizations, departments and companies that have data abroad to transmit or hosting them and continued: "public centers have to use local hosting center".
He pointed that national data center is one of the program of Ministry of ICT and its implementation has been developed and said: "national data center will be operated as a strong support for security and strategic considerations in addition to the local data centers".
According to the report, Minister of ICT visited all operators' booths in Telecom exhibition and unveiled the "purchasing system by mobile" in the First operator pavilion.
This is a new system for providing e- services so online purchase, money transfer and receiving the bank statement by mobile will be provided by this system.