Minister of Communications: All the infrastructures of the ministry have reached the work of messengers

On the sidelines of the meeting of the government delegation, Zarepour told reporters about the establishment of voice and video calls in the messengers of the country, that their quality is increasing day by day. He announced that several million voice and video calls are made through messengers every day: “Four or five of the messengers that people use today have this capability. Ita, which has been the most popular after Rubika during this period, will soon release its new version, which has the ability to make voice and video calls.

The Minister of Communications further said, as in the past, about foreign platforms that we welcome the activity of any foreign platform that adheres to the rules of the Islamic Republic or at least their own rules.

Referring to the President’s speech last night on the radio and television about the filtering of Instagram and WhatsApp, he said: “This resolution has nothing to do with the Ministry of Communications and the government, and it is a decision that was made in the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council with the presence of the heads of the three branches of government.” Is.”

The Supreme National Security Council consists of the heads of the three branches, the ministers of the interior, foreign affairs and intelligence, the head of the program and budget organization, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces, the commanders of the army, the army and the police force, and two representatives chosen by the leader.

The internet of university professors is approved by the working group to determine examples of criminal content

In another part of the conversation with reporters, the Minister of Communications said that we are completely against discrimination in access to the Internet and we are providing access to high-speed Internet for all parts of the country: “We are following up on the same Internet that people in the north of Tehran have. We want to have the same high-speed internet in the most remote rural areas.” Then, referring to the access of the villages to the communication network and the promise of implementing optical fiber in the villages after the metropolises, he said: “There is no discrimination between the people because of this.”

Zarepour went on to say that the journalistic Internet or internet that is supposed to be given to university professors is the resolution of the working group to determine examples of criminal content and it is for sites that have banned us or sites that have been filtered but also have scientific and technological applications: “We are trying to Examples of filtering should be reviewed and opened to the public. In the working group, we have been tasked to provide a tool for respected university professors to do their scientific work on banned sites, which are mainly for downloading scientific and research articles. This is being done routinely, and the working group’s resolution is to determine instances of criminal content.”