By 2010, computers promised half of Russians

Forecasts of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications state that by 2010 the number of Internet users in Russia will increase to 45 million people, Prime-TASS reports. Now, according to the ministry, 25 million Russians use the Network at various intervals. According to Leonid Reiman, “informatization of the whole country” will help achieve such indicators: by 2010 there will be 43 personal computers per 100 people (last year the last figure was 16). In addition, the density of fixed telephony will increase by 40%: by 2010, for every hundred families there will be 43 telephones, instead of 31.2 in 2006.

First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, meanwhile, said today that by 2010, half of Russians will have computers (perhaps 43 percent). More precisely, he put it this way: “We expect that the market will develop in such a way that by 2010 50% of Russians will have PCs and will be Internet users, ” Interfax reports .
At an extended meeting of the board of the Ministry of Communications and Communications, where these forecasts were made, Leonid Reiman also reported on the number of buyers of Internet TV services in the country. In 2006, they turned out to be about 100 thousand people. It is expected that by 2010 this figure will be 1.4 million. According to the minister, the growth in the number of Internet TV users is due to the development of the broadband access market, which in the medium term will be one of the fastest growing information and communication technologies in the Russian Federation.