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Kazakhstanis consumed a record 5.1 billion gigabytes of mobile Internet graphics over the year

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The exact volume for 2023 amounted to 5,111,681,156.4 GB, which is 20% more than a year earlier, according to statistics from the BNS of the Agency for Strategic Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

It is also noted that mobile traffic consumption has increased 107 times over ten years.

Mobile traffic is approaching wireline data, which reached about 6.8 billion GB in 2023, with 18% YoY growth. From 2013 to 2017, traffic volume increased 19 times.

SMS is gradually being squeezed out of the lives of Kazakhstanis. In 2023, 280.6 thousand of them were sent, which is 60% less than a year earlier and 10 times less than in 2013.

According to data on the availability of communication means and the number of services provided, in 2023 the number of cellular subscribers in Kazakhstan was more than 25.5 million. During this period, more than 3 million subscribers used the fixed Internet.

In a review of the use of marketplaces by Kazakhstanis, Data HUB reports that every fourth tenge spent on goods on marketplaces went to phones and gadgets.

Cross-border e-commerce is growing rapidly. We are talking about online payments for goods and services made from Kazakhstani cards outside the Republic of Kazakhstan.

According to the National Bank, in 2023 volumes approached 1.2 trillion tenge, increasing 2.3 times YoY. The number of transactions increased at a similar pace and reached 104.8 million units.

Let us remind you that according to global statistics, 54.8% of Internet users purchase something online every week.


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