01
January
Kazakhtelecom JSC completed the transaction on the sale of a 100% participating interest in Mobile Telecom-Service LLP to PIH Communication LLC.
Key Events of 2025
02
February
The “Unified Drone Infrastructure” project for the monitoring of the flood situation in the North Kazakhstan Region was presented.
The project of connecting 531 schools to high-speed internet by GPON technology was implemented.
03
March
The Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of the “Hand in Hand” programme with China Mobile International Limited was signed.
A strategic session with the participation of members of the Board of Directors on the issues of strategic development was held.
The Memorandum of Understanding between Kazakhtelecom JSC and ICANN on the placement of an instance of the root DNS server (L.ROOT) on the Company’s network was signed.
The active phase of the SAPA+ project on the improvement of the quality of internet services and the renewal of equipment at more than
360
thousand subscribers
was completed
04
April
The memorandum on business development and the modernization of communication networks with VimpelCom PJSC was signed.
05
May
The Company received the international Employer Brand Eurasia award for the SAPA+QUEST HR project.
The Company acted as a technical partner of the international PGL Astana 2025 tournament on Counter-Strike 2.
The launch of the first commercial sovereign AI factory in Central Asia on the basis of NVIDIA H200 GPUs was announced.
06
June
The investment agreement on the connection of more than 3,000 rural population centres to high-speed internet was signed.
Kazakhtelecom JSC became a laureate of the CC Global Awards 2025 in the nomination “Regional Telecommunications Operator in the CIS Space”; the awards ceremony took place in Berlin within the framework of the Carrier Community Global 2025 forum.
The launch of the new generation internet at the speed of up to 10 Gbit/s on the basis of XGS-PON technology was announced.
Kazakhtelecom JSC was awarded the international “Best Network Partner” award of China Telecom Global Limited, handed over within the framework of the global partner conference “One Growth, Together for a Shared Future” at the venue of Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2025.
07
July
The national AI system for the early detection of forest fires was presented.
Kazakhtelecom JSC acceded to the UN Global Compact.
08
August
Marine survey works on the project of construction of the trans-Caspian submarine FOCL “Kazakhstan — Azerbaijan” were begun.
09
September
The corporate agreement with Amazon Kuiper was signed, within the framework of which the Company became the exclusive commercial distributor of the service in Kazakhstan.
10
October
The launch of the AI-Farabium AI cluster for the development of the national infrastructure of artificial intelligence was announced.
The instance of the root DNS server M-Root was installed in the data centre of the city of Almaty jointly with WIDE Project, JPRS and APNIC; the MoU within the framework of international cooperation on the development of DNS infrastructure was signed.
The general agreement on the provision of services with Starlink Kazakhstan LLP was signed.
11
November
The largest DDoS attack on a subscriber’s infrastructure (peak 400 Gbit/s) was registered and repelled by the Information Security Operations Centre with the AntiDDoS complex.
The framework agreement with the Tier-1 upstream provider Arelion Sweden AB was signed.
The general IRU agreement with China Telecom Global Limited was signed.
12
December
The memorandum on the construction of the cross-border communications system with China Unicom (Hong Kong) Operations Limited was signed.
The Corporate Governance Code of Kazakhtelecom JSC in a new version (in line with the Corporate Governance Code of Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund JSC, with strengthened provisions on independent directors, gender balance and ESG integration) was approved.
