ARMENIAN PUBLIC SERVICES REGULATORY COMMISSION PERMITS THREE COMPANIES TO OPERATE TEL. NUMBERS

ARKA
March 10, 2008

YEREVAN, March 10. /ARKA/. RA Public Services Regulatory Commission
granted three Armenian companies a permit to operate some telephone
numbers they had requested for.

Hamlet Tsaturyan, deputy head of the Commission’s Telecommunications
Department, stated that licenses on outgoing international calls
(IP telephony) were issued to "Cornet-AM", "VA&TA" and "Bridgenet"
companies. A similar license was issued to individual businessman
Vahan Gharibyan.

The licenses were issued for a ten-year term and cannot be transmitted
to other physical or juridical bodies without a relevant decision of
the Regulatory Commission.

Besides, all those bodies that were granted a license must ensure
the reliability and safety of the devices used in their professional
activity, as well as submit audit documents to the commission within
ten days after checking is over, Tsaturyan said.

In case the companies or the individual businessman use less than 60%
of the telephone numbers they are licensed to operate, their activity
is considered ineffective and the RA Public Services Regulatory
Commission is entitled to deprive them of the numbers they have not
been using.