ARMENTEL INTRODUCES NEW TARIFF PACKAGE ULTRA

ARKA
Sep 16, 2008

YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. ArmenTel Telecommunications Company
(under the Beeline brand) has introduced a new multifunction tariff
package Ultra for pre-paid SIM card users.

Joining the tariff package, users can audio-video calls, send short
multimedia messages (SMS), get connected to GPRS (general packet
radio service) Internet and GPRS-WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
at reasonable prices.

Users of the tariff package can make audio-video calls to Beeline
subscribers at 9 drams per minute and to mobile and stationery
telephone users in Armenia and Karabakh at 49 drams per minute. The
standard price per SMS is 20 drams (9 drams for the third SMS sent
during 24 hours).

The standard prices of GPRS-Internet and GPRS-WAP is 9 drams per 150
KB and 10 KB respectively.

Last April the Russian VimpelCom (under the Beeline brand) became
the absolute shareholder of ArmenTel. The company currently has
about 650,000 stationary telephone users and over 780,000 mobile
subscribers.