Iran cuts data transit fee
Iran has lowered data transit fee for its neighboring countries
by 20-90 percent in a bid to encourage them to communicate via
Iran, the Fars News Agency quoted Iranian telecommunication
official Mehdi Khodaee as saying.
The fee has be decreased 20-90 percent according to the length of
route, the used capacity, and the duration of use, he added.
On August 1, the chief technology officer of .IR ccTLD Registry,
Alireza Saleh said that Iran ranks first in the region in the
number of domestic internet domains, IRNA news agency reported.
More than 400,000 domestic domains have been registered in Iran
until now, he added.
Iran has surpassed countries such as Malaysia, Turkey, Slovakia,
Greece, and Finland in terms of number of domestic internet
domains, Saleh said, adding that, Iran is among the top four
countries in the world with highest annual domestic internet domain
growth rate.
Since 2005, Iran has been developing the "national internet" to
improve control over its content as well as speed. The project,
which is separate from the World Wide Web, was scheduled to be
completed by 2013. This network will be separated from the rest of
the internet specifically for domestic use.
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