PanArmenian News Network
July 23 2005
80-100KM OPTIC FIBER LINE TO BE BUILT IN YEREVAN BEFORE YEAREND
23.07.2005 05:49
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Before the end of the year Arminco Company will
built optic fiber line of 80-100km in Yerevan, Arminco Provider
Company Director Andranik Aleksanyan told .am edition of
PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, this will allow the company providing
qualitative Internet connection. Besides, the Director reported the
company works to establish Internet wireless access points in the
territory of the Ring Park of the capital. The Wi-Fi point will be
the seventh one installed by Arminco specialists, A. Aleksanyan
added. Speaking of the development of the Wi-Fi infrastructure in
Armenia in general, the Company Director said a Wi-Fi point operates
in the territory of the Medical Center of the Institute of Child and
Youth Health. Wireless Internet additional appliances are planned to
be placed in one of the blocks of the Shengavit community. Arminco
works to introduce Internet technologies outsides Yerevan.
Specifically Aleksanyan reported that a Wi-Fi network will be
organized in one of the Armenian towns in the near future. The
Arminco head did not name the location referring to a commercial
classified information. `5-10 thousand citizens live in that town. In
10-15 days they will have an opportunity to access the Internet
without using a telephone line. Within the framework of the pilot
project the town territory is planned to be covered by 8-10 points.
It should be noted a similar network is already put into operation in
Artashat town. Matters of illegal Internet provision were also
touched in the course of the conversation. Thus, in A. Aleksanyan’s
words, one can get Internet access from `shadow’ providers today.
According to some estimates, there are some 50 illegal satellite
aerials in Armenia today, he reported.