The Russian Technologies State Corporation,or Rostechnologii, has already set up a company there specializing in broadband Internet service, said Sergey Chemezov, head of the corporation.
"We need more time to finalize all of the necessary formalities with the Communications Ministry. But the first electronic government in Kazan and the entire system of high-speed broadband Internet access will start to function within a month," Chemezov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
Digital television has already been launched there as part of this program as well, he said.
The company already established a network for e-government in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa and Krasnodar. Kazan is the sixth largest city of Russia.
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Quelle/Source: People's Daily Online, 13.09.2010