Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan . Annex I - Benchmarking Table 1 Stage Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Information infrastructure Internet availability . A small minority in the community has good access to the telecommunications network, but most of the community does not. (Roughly: Teledensity is between two and eight mainlines per 100 people. Mobile wireless penetration is between 0.5 % and 3 %. Cable penetration is below 5 % of all household in the community) There are between 0.5 and one million inhabitants per local ISP. ISPs provide full Internet access. Subscribers may have some options between various Internet service packages. There are some opportunities for public Internet access. It is normally possible for users to establish a dial-up connection to a local ISP, except during peak hours. One or two private providers lease lines to businesses. 44 Internet affordability Rates for local telephone calls are high enough to discourage extensive Internet use via local ISPs, even among those, who could afford Internet access. Local access solutions exist, but rates for ISP services are high enough to discourage extensive use. The lack of competition in the provision of commercial leased lines is reflected in prohibitively or very high leasing fees.