By Fiber-mart.com

Baku Telephone Communications Production Association modernizes the transmission towers for optical cabling by air, the association reported on March 27.

For stability during the windy weather, air cables of communication are replaced with optical cables and communication lines, laid to end users from switchboard cabinets and transmission towers, are replaced with new symmetrical cables.

Baku Telephone Communications noted that preventive repair work is done at the expense of the association’s internal funds.

The optimization of the infrastructure of cable and sewerage facilities in Baku is being carried since the beginning of 2016. Approximately 10,000 of the 20,788 facilities have been optimized to date.

The main goal is to create optimal infrastructure and suitable conditions for ensuring normal working conditions of emergency repair crews. Only unusable equipment and cables which may cause accidents are being decommissioned.

Azerbaijan attaches particular importance to the qualitative communication and Internet services for the population. The country ranks first among the countries of Post-Soviet region for the level of broadband internet penetration. Thus, Azerbaijan left behind Russia (where the level of penetration is 18.8 percent), Georgia (14.6 percent), Kazakhstan (13 percent) and other CIS countries.

The signal of the digital broadcasting covers approximately 99 percent of Azerbaijan, while over 75 percent of the country’s population have an access to the Internet.