THIRD CELL PHONE OPERATOR: THREE COMPANIES PASSED INTO QUALIFICATION STAGE

Panorama.am
16:29 27/08/2008

Six phone-companies took part in the competition on acquiring the
rights of Armenia’s third cell phone operator. Only three companies
passed into qualification round among them Orange (France Telecom,
France), CEO Blackrock Communications (England and Ireland), M$A Tele2
AB (Sweden), the secretary of minister of Transport and Communications
Sussanna Tonoyan told panorama.am.

According to Tonoyan, at the beginning of the competition 17 companies
presented their applications on paticipation but only 6 of them had
the required documents for the qualification round: Orange (France
Telecom, France), CEO Blackrock Communications (Ireland), V-Tel
(Jordan), M$A Tele2 AB (Sweden), Auroratel (Russian Federation),
PJ Engineering (Finland).

The three companies of the qualification round will present their
proposal-applications to the competition committee in 40-day period
of time. The winner will be known after the committee analyzes all
the proposals.