TECHNOLOGY OF 3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION MAY BE PUT INTO COMMERCIAL OPERATION IN A MONTH AND A HALF

ArmInfo
2008-06-19 15:54:00

The technology of 3G mobile communication may be put into commercial
operation in a month a half, ArmenTel (Beeline brand) company’s
Business Director for Mobile Communication Gennady Kalgashkin said
during the presentation of the 3G mobile communication system’s
experimental-commercial exploitation. During the presentation,
a video call included in the package of 3G services was demonstrated.

‘The 3G technology is an important step forward – to make
our subscribers’ life more interesting and convenient. Now all
telecommunication services can be bought through one service package,
which is also convenient. This concerns both fixed and mobile
communication, internet services and video-telephony’, ArmenTel’s
Director General Neicho Velichkov stressed. According to him, the
technology is to increase the convergence of ArmenTel’s network,
i.e. optimal convertibility of tariffs into services. This process
will completed before 2009.

ArmenTel Director for Operations A.Birman said that the key task in
this aspect is to replace the old Siemens network acquired before
OTE company’s work and having even no GPRS format by the new Sony
Ericsson one.

‘Disturbance in communication may be caused when transiting from one
network’s zone to the zone of another network’, he noted. To recall,
all subscribers whose telephones work in 3G format will have a chance
to connect to 3G communication. Initially the tariff for the new
service will not differ from those for vocal calls in the current
2G system.