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    CONFLICT AMONG NATURAL MONOPOLIST AND PROVIDERS FINALLY SETTLED

    arminfo
    2008-05-31 21:41:00

    ArmInfo. The conflict among the natural telecommunications monopolist,
    "ArmenTel" Company, and Armenia's Internet-providers has been finally
    settled. As Director on Operations of "ArmenTel" Company (Beeline
    brand) Alexander Birman told ArmInfo, the relevant Memorandum of
    Cooperation was signed on May 22. The text of the Memorandum has
    been sent to the market regulatory agencies - RA Public Services
    Regulatory Commission and RA State Commission for Protection of
    Economic Competition.

    To recall, on April 30, a number of Internet-providers of Armenia
    prepared an appeal to the republic's market regulatory agencies,
    containing a demand to settle the situation in the telecommunications
    market caused by the aggressive price policy of "ArmenTel", expressed
    in the fixed different prices on Internet-communication for corporate
    and private users. Along with it, the providers limited the access
    to the Internet-communication for their clients - "ArmenTel"
    subscribers. On May 12, ArmenTel" spread a statement among the
    providers, expressing readiness to start negotiations on the situation
    settlement. As A. Birman said, the Memorandum contains a provision on
    creation of three working groups. One of them will be engaged in the
    general issues of Internet-market functioning, that is, determination
    of the peer- to-peer rules or traffic exchange among the providers,
    the issues of providers' liabilities, etc.

    The other group will deal with the issues of "direct wires" or
    "physical" channel from ATS to the user. "The problem of determining
    the "direct wire" term had to be solved here". The point is that
    ten years ago, when PSRC approved the rules of using "direct wires"
    and the prices, the section of the wire among the telephone stations
    and accruals for that fell from the filed of vision. This is the case
    when everything new is old again: we have just recovered the earlier
    existing rules", A. Birman said. The third group will be engaged in the
    rules of using DSL- communication. As A. Birman said, the discussions
    on development of an optimal business- model are at the working stage.

    Technical Director of the biggest Internet-provider of Armenia,
    "Arminco" Company, Head of the first working group Grigor Saghyan told
    ArmInfo that the tasks set should be fulfilled within the strictly
    defined terms. "If they are not fulfilled within a fortnight, the
    Memorandum cannot be called efficient", G. Saghyan said. He added that
    determination of the telecommunications network structure and precise
    differentiation of prices for use of the network as such and use of
    the Internet-communication within its frames remains the key problem.
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