Russia: Post Offices Get Wired: 28 Jan 03

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: Russia: Post Offices Get Wired: 28 Jan 03

POST OFFICES GET WIRED. 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.

Source: RFE/RL Newsline, 29 Jan 03

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