Fixed-Line Telephone Users to Block Their Outgoing Calls from Home

YEREVAN, May 7. /ARKA/. From now on, the users of Armenian fixed-line
telephone network can block international access of their telephones
from home.

The Public Relations Department, ArmenTel Company, reports that the
company has decided to provide a new service because many dial-up
Internet users complain of bills received for allegedly made
international calls. To prevent such cases, the subscribers can now
make use of a new free service and encode the international access of
their telephone lines before getting connected to the Internet. To
block international calls, subscribers have to dial any four-digit code
plus any of the following extensions:

01 (to block outgoing international calls, as well as fringe services
rendered for extra payments (090),

02 (to block outgoing international calls, calls to the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), as well as fringe services rendered for extra
payments (090),

03 (to block outgoing international calls and the CIS countries,
long-distance calls inside the country, as well as fringe services
rendered for extra payments (090),

04 (to block outgoing international calls and calls to the CIS
countries, long-distance calls inside the country, mobile calls, as
well as fringe services rendered for extra payments (090),

05 (to block outgoing international calls and calls to the CIS
countries, long-distance calls inside the country, local calls, as well
as fringe services rendered for extra payments (090),

ArmenTel has a monopoly operation right to the country’s fixed-line
telephone network. It is one of the two mobile operators in Armenia.
VimpelCom Company is full owner of ArmenTel.`0′