Georgia reports 575 km of state-backed fibre backbone complete and 1,050 km under way

Georgia's Communications Commission (ComCom) says it has completed 575 km of fibre-optic backbone under the state-backed Log-in Georgia programme and has a further 1,050 km, serving about 200 settlements, under construction. Chairman Goga Gulordava gave the figures to Parliament in the Commission's report on 2025 results, according to a ComCom statement dated 22 September. By the end of 2025, the statement says, completed and ongoing works totalled 3,000 km and covered more than 420 settlements and about 260,000 residents.

Log-in Georgia is co-financed by the Government of Georgia and the World Bank, ComCom said in a note of 12 October. The statement on 2025 results gives no funding amounts.

Completed and planned routes

The completed 575 km of backbone runs through Chiatura, Sachkhere, Terjola, Tkibuli, Chkhorotsku, Khobi, Senaki, part of Tsalenjikha and Zugdidi, according to the statement. The 1,050 km under construction covers Mestia, Zestafoni, Kharagauli, Sachkhere, Khashuri, Gori, Kareli, Kaspi, Dusheti, Mtskheta, Keda, Khelvachauri and Shuakhevi. Sachkhere appears in both lists, and the statement does not explain why.

New tenders were announced in 2025 for three further routes: Khulo to Akhaltsikhe to Borjomi, Tsalka to Akhalkalaki to Akhaltsikhe, and Tbilisi to Marneuli to Tsalka. The statement gives no lengths, values or award dates for them.

The 575 km and 1,050 km figures add up to 1,625 km. The cumulative total of 3,000 km is described as completed and ongoing works by the end of 2025, and the statement does not reconcile the two numbers, so earlier phases or other works may account for the difference.

Who uses the network

As of 2025 the Open Net platform had 18 internet service providers and three mobile operators on it, the statement says. It does not report how many households or businesses have been connected through the network, what wholesale prices providers pay or how many of the 420 settlements already have service.

The programme sits alongside a fixed market that ComCom's sector statement puts at 1.212 million fixed broadband subscribers at the end of 2025. The same statement says fixed internet reaches 2,583 of Georgia's 3,385 villages, which leaves 802 without it. The 420 settlements in the fibre programme and the 802 villages are counted on different bases, and the documents reviewed do not say how far they overlap.

Digital skills component

The fibre build is paired with a Digital Support Programme that trains residents in the target areas. In 2025 it covered 80 target villages and settlements in eight municipalities, with more than 300 seminars and 4,600 beneficiaries trained, according to the statement. Over recent years it has reached 300 villages and settlements in 20 municipalities, with nearly 800 seminars and more than 10,000 beneficiaries. ComCom said that since 2022 the programme has operated in 70 per cent of the geographic area covered by optical infrastructure.

Later notes show the programme continuing in 2026. On 24 June ComCom said it had concluded the programme in Sachkhere after 116 training sessions for 1,700 local beneficiaries, and that it had trained more than 14,000 people in over 300 villages and settlements in 20 municipalities. On 12 October it reported more than 50 sessions for over 1,000 residents of 17 villages in the municipality of Gori, and said the programme had by then reached more than 350 villages and settlements in 23 municipalities and over 16,000 beneficiaries.

Courses cover basic digital skills, safe use of the internet, artificial intelligence literacy and internet use for employment. Participation is free for residents aged 14 and over, according to the Sachkhere note. Participants in Gori included municipal staff, teachers, students, socially vulnerable people, internally displaced persons and small business owners. Gori is also among the municipalities where backbone construction was under way, according to the 22 September statement.