ARMENTEL TO SHUT DOWN ILLEGAL VOIP OPERATORS

TeleGeography, DC
Jan 17 2007

Armenia’s national PTO ArmenTel will start disconnecting illegal
VoIP operators from 25 January, says the general director of the
company Oleg Bliznyuk. The ArmenTel director told reporters at a
press conference in Yerevan that about 300 companies are currently
providing IP telephony illegally without requisite licences. ‘They
steal traffic from us, and we are not going to accept it,’ he said.

ArmenTel has held talks with some of the firms – including Avrora,
MediaLink and Dashlink – about the possibility of them reselling its
own products, but all other providers will be disconnected.