RUSSIA: POST OFFICES GET WIRED.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, January, 2003

There are currently some 6,600 public-access Internet outlets in post offices across Russia, Prime-TASS reported on 28 January, citing Ilya Genkin of the postal-services department of the Communications Ministry. According to Genkin, this number represents a more than six-fold increase from the beginning of 2002 when there were just over 1,000 such outlets. Under a project launched in August 2001, Internet access is to be set up at all of Russia's 40,000 post offices, the agency reported. JAC

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