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    ARMINFO News Agency
    September 20, 2005

    ROBERT KOCHARYAN: AFTER MOBILE COMMUNICATION MARKET,
    INTERNET-SERVICES SPHERE WILL BE LIBERALIZED


    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 20. ARMINFO. ' We have already solved part of the
    problem with ArmenTel. It concerns the sphere of mobile
    communication,' Armenian President Robert Kocharyan said at a meeting
    with the winners of a contest for IT-specialists, Tuesday.

    The president noted the fall in the prices of mobile communication
    services caused by the competition in the sphere. As regards
    Internet, Robert Kocharyan said that years-long problematic talks
    with ArmenTel resulted in some liberalization of the sphere of
    international data transfer. The president said that when monopolist
    ArmenTel directed the profits from the cellular communication
    services to development of the fixed telephone network on the system
    of cross financing. 'Almost whole Yerevan is equipped wit digital
    ATXs and the quality of the fixed communication in Armenia is the
    best in the post- Soviet area. In this connection, Armenia has a big
    progress in development of fixed communication, but it slackens as to
    the level of mobile communication,' Robert Kocharyan said. The
    president expressed confidence that the whole country will be
    provided with mobile communication as the second operator started its
    activity "rather aggressively."

    The president said the next step with be an attempt to liberalize the
    sphere of Internet services. In particular, the country will try to
    lift the restrictions on Internet services, which is the prerogative
    of ArmenTel at present.

    To note, after the two-year conflict of the Government and ArmenTel,
    a second operator entered the mobile communication market of Armenia
    on July 1 2005 - K- Telecom. In the middle of September, K-Telecom's
    subscribers numbered 217,000, those of ArmenTel numbered 250,000.
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