By A Saleh
KUWAIT: Before submitting his resignation yesterday, Minister of Communications and Minister of State For Municipal Affairs Essa Al-Kandari issued a decision allowing companies licensed by the information ministry to provide IPTV cable TV services through the NGN network and to reduce the cost of Internet services by 40 percent to KD 3,600 annually per 100 mbps and KD 24,000 per one gbps, plus KD 1,000 each ISP pays to the ministry for installation fees.
Kandari also decided allowing bodies receiving IPLC Internet to increase their capacity by 10 percent for 25 GB capacity, 20 percent for 50 GB capacity, 30 percent for 75 GB capacity and 40 percent for 100 GB capacity. Kandari added that the decisions were made in collaboration with the public authority for IT and communications in order to provide cheaper high quality Internet services.
© Kuwait Times 2016
