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Or speeds double, depending on how you look at it. A few months ago, KazakhTeleCom started offering faster Internet in Kazakhstan, doubling its speeds. I am told by my friends who are better at computers than I am that there is no reason why we couldn’t have had faster Internet a long time ago, but I guess better late than never.

However those of us with other ISPs didn’t get any boost. However it looks like as of April 10th, KazTransCom has halved its prices–which is basically to say that they doubled the speed of the Internet. In fact, the prices are slightly lower than half. So we were paying about 4100 tenge a month for 256kb/s and now we are paying something like 1920 tenge a month. So if we upgrade to 512kb/s, we’ll be paying only 3900 tenge. So we get twice the speed for 200 tenge less.

Finally, I might be able to watch YouTube again. And downloading podcasts of my favorite radio shows might take less than 6 hours.