3.5. Innovations

In 2025, Kazakhtelecom JSC expanded cooperation with international technology companies in the area of satellite communications.

With Amazon Kuiper, a Master Service Agreement was signed, determining the conditions of placement, construction and connection of the ground infrastructure of the project in Kazakhstan with the use of the infrastructure of Kazakhtelecom JSC. Additionally, an exclusive distributor agreement on the provision of satellite communications services and user equipment in Kazakhstan was concluded.

In parallel, the Company continued interaction with Starlink on the issues of the development of telecommunications infrastructure, and also the elaboration of technical and commercial models of cooperation. Based on the results of negotiations, arrangements were reached on the provision to the Company of individual telecommunications services under the Starlink project.

In 2025, Kazakhtelecom JSC organized the provision of the L1 channel transmission service by Alien Wavelength technology on the basis of its own backbone optical network OTN/DWDM.

The service makes it possible to transmit the customer’s optical wavelength with the use of the existing infrastructure without the installation of additional equipment. Within the framework of the service, a channel with a frequency of 100 GHz and a throughput capacity of up to 100 Gbit/s is provided for government customers.

The “Auyl Online” project is aimed at the expansion of access to high-speed internet in rural population centres and the enhancement of the quality of digital infrastructure in regions.

By the end of 2027, it is planned to provide more than 1 million residents of rural areas with access to high-speed internet. The project covers 2,991 villages, 62 thousand houses, 2,011 schools and 3,029 state institutions.

The implementation of the project will make it possible to expand access of residents of rural population centres to digital services, including online education, telemedicine and government services. The project also reduces the digital divide between city and village and creates the basic infrastructure for the development of regions.

In 2025, in the city of Qonaev, an MVP project on the testing of an optical access network on the basis of open architectural solutions with the use of the VOLTHA platform was implemented. The pilot zone was deployed in the SunCity residential complex with the connection of subscribers to internet and television services on the current tariff conditions of Kazakhtelecom JSC.

The project confirmed the possibility of integration of equipment of various manufacturers in a single network and demonstrated the advantages of open architectural solutions.

Additionally, the first stage of the development of the in-house OpenOMCI ME Stack aimed at enhancing the flexibility of infrastructure and reducing the dependence on equipment suppliers was completed. As the basis, the vendor-independent implementation of OMCI of the VOLTHA open-source project, corresponding to the latest version of the international standard ITU-T G.988 (11/2022), was taken, on the basis of which the Kazakhtelecom OpenOMCI ME Stack table was prepared.

OpenOMCI represents a single directory of Managed Entities (ME) for all OLT/ONT manufacturers and is aimed at the simplification of infrastructure and the elimination of compatibility problems. The solution makes it possible to use universal subscriber devices, operating with any OLT (with a set of our MEs) and vOMCI, which ensures independence from vendors and accelerates the launch of new services.

OpenOMCI enhances the flexibility and scalability of the PON infrastructure and expands the choice of equipment. The development of the in-house OpenOMCI ME is being conducted in the laboratory of Kazakhtelecom JSC specially created for this purpose.