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    France's Alcatel to build network for Armenia's K-Telecom

    Prime-Tass English-language Business Newswire
    August 3, 2005

    MOSCOW, Aug 3 (Prime-Tass) -- France's Alcatel has concluded a contract
    on building a GSM network for Armenia's mobile operator K-Telecom,
    Alcatel said Wednesday.

    The exact amount of the contract was not disclosed, but Alcatel said
    that it is worth several millions of euros.

    Alcatel plans to build the network together with Greece's Intracom.

    Alcatel is to install over 200 base stations with the operational
    capacity of 400,000 numbers.

    Operation of the first stage of K-Telecom's network began on July 1.

    K-Telecom, an affiliate of Karabakh Telecom, is controlled by Lebanese
    businessman Pierre Fattouch and is to provide its services under the
    VivaCell trademark in Armenia.

    K-Telecom has already invested more than U.S. USD 75 million in its
    network in Armenia and projects its subscriber base at 300,000 users
    in 2005.

    Earlier national telecom company ArmenTel has held a monopoly
    to provide GSM services in Armenia. However, in November 2004 the
    Armenian government decided to make amendments to ArmenTel's license,
    depriving the company of its exclusive right to provide GSM, mobile
    satellite and mobile radio communication services in the country.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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