ArmenTel: Dial-Up Subscribers Are Advised To Disconnect Their Modems

ARMENTEL: DIAL-UP SUBSCRIBERS ARE ADVISED TO DISCONNECT THEIR MODEMS WHEN GOING OFF-LINE

ArmInfo
2009-11-12 18:32:00

ArmInfo. ArmenTel advises its dial-up subscribers to disconnect their
modems when going off-line so as to protect themselves from viruses
generating international calls.

Head of Customer Service Burastan Movsissyan says that in some cases
such calls can be generated even by shut down computers. This is a
very urgent problem as 20% of ArmenTel’s fixed telephony subsribers
still use Dial-up. International calls can also be blocked from the
phone number the computer is connected to.

As regards complaints, Movsissyan says that 36% of them concern
big bills for SMSs sent to short numbers (quizzes, votings), 25% –
GPRS-viruses, 21% – "mobile fraud" (alleged victory in some nonexistent
draws). In the field of fixed telephony, 47% of complains concern
dial-up viruses, 44% – big bills in newly digitized areas in regions.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS