Director General of Armentel: To be dishonest is much too unprofitable
business for us
2008-07-24 18:07:00
ArmInfo. ArmenTel is not able to give providers access to the network
on demand, the director general of Armentel (Beeline brand) Neicho
Velichkov said during a press-conference today.
He said that it was not an instance of unfair competition. "To be
dishonest is much too unprofitable business for us. If we lose our ties
with other telecom market players we will lose our profit," Velichkov
said.
He noted that some providers might artificially slow down or interrupt
access of ArmenTel internet subscribers to their servers.
"If an ArmenTel subscriber can access any server except two or three
Armenian providers, it means something, doesn’t it?" Velichko said. In
order to avoid such instances by early Oct ArmenTel is going to open
its own free mail server. "We are interested in effective and flexible
cooperation. That’s why when planning our work for one or several
months ahead we want to know which provider wants to get access to
which section of the network. Such connections require big work. We
can’t do it in a week not because we don’t want but because we have
limited technical capacities," Velichkov said.
He also added that any offer to cooperate is welcomed by the company
and leasing of the network and joint investments mean activation of the
market and growing of incomes of all its participants.
Velichkov also touched on internal plans of the company which should be
resolved. Among them is finishing of connection to the fixed telephone
line and changing of the telephone cables all over the republic, some
of which were laid 50 years ago. Another important task is
digitalization of automatic telephone stations especially at the border
regions and setting of new equipment by CDMA standard. He said that
digital communication may reach 100% in Armenia by the end of the next
year.