TELEPHONE TARIFFS TO REMAIN UNCHANGED TILL MARCH 1 2007
By Ara Martirosian

AZG Armenian Daily
28/11/2006

This year, on October 13, the State Commission on Public Services
disapproved the appeal of "ArmenTel" company according to which
the tariffs for a number of services, including the wire telephone
connection, provided by the company would sharply grow. The sides
failed to come to agreement on the tariffs and the issue was discussed
again at the recent sitting of the commission.

As you know, certain changes took place recently, in particular,
"ArmenTel" was sold to the Russian "VimpelCom" and Oleg Bliznyuk,
became the head of the company.

Armen Arshakian, head of tariff policy department of the commission,
informed that due to the sides’ failure to come to agreement, it was
decided to approve the December 7 tariffs as transitional till March1,
2007. Thus, the tariffs will remain unchanged till that day. At the
same time, the commission decision envisages that "ArmenTel" may make
some corrections and new suggestions concerning its tariffs till then.

Oleg Bliznyuk, head of "ArmenTel," said that taking into account the
fact that the company’s owner was changed quite recently; they also
asked the commission to prolong the current tariffs till March 1, 2007.