ADC ENVISAGES PROVISION OF BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICES TO HOUSEHOLDS AND SMALL OFFICES FROM JUNE

Noyan Tapan

Ma y 12, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian-Norwegian ADC company plans
to start the provision of broadband Internet "triple play" package
of services through its channels to both households and small offices
from June, NT correspondent was informed by the company’s commercial
director Avetik Kalantarian.

In his words, the first stage of services’ testing was successful. "We
have developed interesting versions with quite a good result – in terms
of ensuring "last mile" connections to apartments and offices in order
to make the prices more accessible as compared with the fiber optic
cable connection which is more labor-consuming and quite expensive,"
A. Kalantarian pointed out. He explained that two tariff plans on
provision of the indicated services have been developed: with and
without a restriction on the amount of data transmission. Users will
be offered 5-6 various packages at prices from 15 to 40 thousand
drams a month. They will differ from broadband Internet offered to
big corporate customers in that the indices of upload and download
speed will not be given.

"We want all packages to be without a use restriction because we
realize that by pursuing some bisiness goals, we also solve the
problem of forming an information society," A. Kalantarian added.

He said that only a few Armenian television companies have the
opportunity to broadcast digital signals to the network operator. Most
TV companies use analog television broadcasting, and they can
broadcast by the fiber optic network only after their programs are
digitalized. In the words of A. Kalantarian, "TV companies will not
have to make considerable investments for digitalization. If we have
to digitalize, it is another business task, and we are prepared to
discuss it".