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INFRASTRUCTURE
AND COMMUNICATIONS
TRANSPORT – The roads are the main element of the transport scheme. The existing road network in the region is comparatively good. Its total length is 1 106 km, 980 km of which are asphalted. Most of the roads are third and fourth-class:
² class – 91,9 km;
²² class – 29,9 km;
²²² class – 381,3 km;
²V class – 602,8 km.
Gabrovo is a transport cross point:
- The transeuropean road E-85 from Sankt Peterburg and Bucharest to Greece and Turkey
- Shipka passage – as part of transeuropean corridor E-85
- Motor highway “Hemus” – from Sofia to Varna
The regional railway transport system serves few towns and villages of Gabrovo region. The European railroad ÑÅ 95 passes through Dryanovo and Tryavna.
ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM - The electric supply system of Gabrovo region functions as part of the united Bulgarian electric power system.
The regional electric power system is well developed and scaled to endure bigger loading. The problems of the electric power network in the municipalities arise from some quality parameters of the electric power in a number of villages.
WATER–SUPPLY SYSTEM – Gabrovo region avails of Karst waters, which have unstable debit around the year. There are 397 water-sources in the region.
The total length of the water-supply network is 1 623,13 êì, there are 78 water pump stations;
The total amount of water-supply is 30 302 000. ì3 per year.
The existing water supply system in the region is worn out, with lots of water wastes and expenses for running repairs.
COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNET– The national mobile operators Mtel and Globul have network on the territory of Gabrovo region. The Bulgarian Telecommunication Company is also represented in the region for household and administrative needs. The digitalization of the telephones in the region is going on. There are 8 980 digital telephones, which is 15,45% of the total number. The telephone density is 54,73 %, which is some higher than the average figure for the country. Most of the settlements are included in the system of automatic telephone dialing.
The optic network of the town is 7 km and is organized in one optic ring (1 per155 Mbit/s – STM – 1).
There are 2 digital telephone exchanges EWSD Siemens with total capacity of 10712 PSTN lines, 264 ISDN ports for basic access and 40 ISDN ports for primary access.
The internet providers cover the four towns in the region – Gabrovo, Sevlievo, Dryanovo, Tryavna. There is cable and wireless access to internet.
The price of limited cable internet access /33,6 Kbps/ is 30 lv per month.
As to the monthly charge for high speed connection /256 Kbps/ by DSL it is 110.00 lv. for 1000 ÌÂ traffic.
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