Hamidreza Zare
Hamidreza is a content manager at Harasp. He is also a student of English Literature and is fascinated by tech, e-commerce, fashion, linguistics and sports.
This week, we covered Bitcoin getting banned in Iran, Silk Road Startup Summit’s winners, 250 European banks connected to Iran and 223% increase in Iran’s phone imports.
The government has obligated all the public sectors to use local messengers instead of Telegram which has resulted in a 10% decrease of the country’s internet bandwidth for Telegram.
This week, we covered digital currencies banned by the Central Bank of Iran, U.S. sanctions on ZTE, the end of mobile phone smugglings and Iranian’s cost to be on Telegram.
While there have been many measures taken by the government and other organizations, the migration of users out of Telegram is not going as expected. Here are 3 reasons why the Iranian people are hesitating to migrate from Telegram.
This week, we covered Silk Road Startup Summit’s final countdown, a new record for SHETAB transactions during the past year, assigning an unemployment insurance for Iranian businesses migrating out of Telegram and blocking this messenger in the country.
This week, we covered Telegram’s potential ban in Iran, cyber-attack on Iran’s data centers, completing the list of mobile phone brands in the registry scheme and Iran’s 13th RoboCup competition.
Iran’s mobile network has seen tremendous growth in the recent years. Here are its latest statistics until April 2018.
This week, we covered Silk Road startup summit in Kish Island, Iran’s reaction to Telegram’s cryptocurrency, 600% increase in iPhone imports and ICT Minister’s first online press conference.
The Minister of ICT, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, participated in the first online press conference. This conference was live to watch on Aparat, and had about 12,000 views.
Every week we’ll be bringing you the highlights of Iran’s tech scene in the past week. This week, we covered Samsung mobile phones’ registry postponement, 650 million dollar facilities dedicated to knowledge-based companies, game developers’ huge contribution and free internet in museums and historical places in the country.
