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Category: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure

Performance to
Category KPI Result SDG
Benchmark
Fixed Broadband 42.56 %
Subscriptions

Wireless Broadband
Subscriptions 182 262
(per 100 000 inhabitants)
Household Internet 100.00 %
Access

Wireless Broadband 100.00 %
Coverage – 3G and 4G

Availability of Wi-Fi in 3 Spots No benchmark available
Public Areas

In keeping with its objective of becoming a leading smart and sustainable city, Mashhad’s ICT
infrastructure scores well on the KPIs within this category. At the same time, as technology advances
and as initiatives to make more digital services available to its citizens continue to be implemented,
improvements to the ICT infrastructure of the city will still be needed in order to upgrade speed
and the capacity to handle increasing levels of data.

Mashhad is currently adding more than 400 additional km of fibre-optic cable to its urban network
to increase capacity and reliability as a current project.

As Mashhad’s economy has a heavy focus on tourism, free public Wi-Fi spots will be expected by
tourists and visitors. Therefore, plans to expand the public Wi-Fi network should be reviewed as
there are currently very few public Wi-Fi spots.

Enhancing Performance Using ITU-T Recommendations:

Recommendation ITU-T Y.4901/L.1601: KPIs related to the use of ICT in smart sustainable cities
will provide Mashhad with additional ICT KPIs related to smart, sustainable cities that can be
implemented and measured.

Recommendation ITU-T Y.4902/L.1602: ‘KPIs related to the sustainability impacts of ICT in smart
sustainable cities’ will provide Mashhad with additional KPIs that will measure the sustainability
impact of the use of ICTs.

Recommendation ITU-T L.1400: Overview and general principles of methodologies for assessing
the environmental impact of ICTs and/or Recommendation ITU-T L.1440: Methodology for
environmental impact assessment of ICTs at city level, will allow Mashhad to measure the
environmental impacts of the use of ICTs.

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