ARMENTEL INTENDS TO TAKE ALL POSSIBLE MEASURES, INCLUDING LEGAL ONES,
FOR PROTECTION OF ITS CELLULAR SERVICE NETWORK

YEREVAN, JULY 2. ARMINFO. The company ArmenTel intends to take all
the possible measures, including legal ones, for protection of its
network of cellular service. Executive General Director of the company
Vasilios Fetsis stated during the news conference Saturday, commenting
on the situation in the system of cellular service of Armenia Friday.

According to him, inexplicable errors occurred in the cellular service
system of ArmenTel on July 1, which were continued for a long
time. Basing on commercial and technical researches one should say
that the errors took place without equipment malfunction, Fetsis
said. Presenting apologies to the consumers, he stressed that the
company will attract the best experts to elicit the reasons for the
errors in the overloaded network. The company has also informed the
Commission for public service regulation about the incident, said the
executive general director of ArmenTel cjsc.

He said that the company welcomes appearance of the second operator of
cellular service in the internal market of the republic and is not
afraid of competition. The consumers also benefit by it, they already
feel the advantage of the competition receiving more acceptable
tariffs and more qualitative service irrespective of the fact, the
services of which company they use. For its part the ArmenTel intends
to do its best for improvement of the communication quality.