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    INTERNET PRICES COME DOWN IN ARMENIA

    Pan Armenian News
    29.06.2005 09:44

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Along with the reduction of cellular communication
    prices ArmenTel telephone company will also reduce prices for
    providing Internet channels, company Press Service head Hasmik
    Chutinyan stated in a conversation with a reporter of the .am edition
    of the PanARMENIAN.Net. In her words, the provided fiber optic line
    that has 2Mb power will be reduced 24% (from $21 thousand to a bit
    less than $16 thousand). H. Chutinyan considers the initiative of the
    company will result in reduction of Internet prices for its ultimate
    users. The new prices will come into effect July 1, 2005. In his
    turn Arminco Internet provider company Technical Director Grigori
    Saghyan remarked that based on the ArmenTel new tariff Arminco is
    going to reduce dial-up and radio modem communication prices some 25%.
    However, he noted that even given the "ArmenTel descent", the prices
    are not enough reduced. In his words, the prices of the satellite
    communication channels for provider "covering" Armenia and adjacent
    states makes some 6-8 thousand US dollars. Thereupon, shadow economy
    develops in Armenia and the providing of illegal access to the Internet
    by rather "modest" prices is available, Saghyan informed. "If ArmenTel
    company reduces the tariff for the provided fiber optic channel to
    $10 thousand, the illegal organizations will have to come out of
    the shadow," he supposed, adding Internet will become accessible to
    everyone in Armenia.
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