26th Int’l ELECOMP Exhibition Kicks Off in Tehran


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The 26th International Exhibition of Electronic, Computer and E-Commerce (ELECOMP) was inaugurated at Tehran’s Permanent International Fairgrounds on Sunday in a ceremony attended by Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour.

Speaking on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of the exhibition, Zarepour pointed to the speed of mobile internet in Iran and said that the speed of cellphone internet has doubled since the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi assumed office in August 2021.

He referred to the e-commerce and platforms that should be created for this purpose and said the development of communications infrastructures is one of the main platforms for the development of electronic commerce dubbed ‘e-commerce’.

“Better Future for the Digital Economy” is the motto of this year’s exhibition, he said, adding that the current administration has predicted a good package for ameliorating and improving the future of digital economy in the 7th Five-Year Socioeconomic and Cultural Development Plan.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the ICT minister pointed to the upcoming Forum of ICT ministers of member states of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Tehran and said, “I asked some ICT ministers of other countries to attend he forum in order to set up an infrastructure for taking advantage of the capacities of one another.”

Suitable ways have been provided for domestic knowledge-based companies in order to export their products overseas, he further said. 

More than $200 million worth of contracts have been concluded with foreign companies over the past six months, Zarepour said, hoping that his ministry would pave the way for the export of other similar products overseas.