Tajikistan To Link Up With China Telecoms Network

Tajikistan has one of the slowest Internet services in the world.

Tajikistan on November 17 announced plans to link with China's telecommunications network in order to improve the mountainous, landlocked country's Internet access as Beijing's influence in Central Asia grows. Tajikistan has one of the slowest Internet services in the world despite improvements in recent years, with all traffic going through a center controlled by a government monopoly. The project will be carried out alongside the construction of a highway linking Dushanbe, the country's capital in the west, with a town on its border with China, according to state news agency Khovar.