180 ARMENIAN COMPANIES HAVE LICENCES FOR PROVIDING DATA TRANSMISSION AND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES
Noyan Tapan
Aug 15 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, NOYAN TAPAN. About 180 Armenian companies currently
have licences for providing data transmission and Internet access
services.
Gevorg Gevorgian, Head of the Telecommunication Department of the
RA Public Services Regulatory Commission, told NT correspondent
about it. According to him, the operation of 14 companies providing
data transmission and Internet access services was ceased due to the
fact that these companies were not engaged in this type of activity
but were unaware that this circumsatnce does exempt them from annual
duties for licence and from fines for non-payment of these duties. At
the same time, in the first half of this year, 9 licences allowing
to carry out such activity were granted. G. Gevorgain found it
difficult to answer the question about the volume of the Armenian
market of data transmission and Internet access services. He noted
that ArmenTel company can throw a light on this question. It should
have submitted information to the commission about the amount its
electronoic communication services until February 1, 2006.
The publication of this information was delayed until the commission’s
sitting scheduled for July 28, which did not take place.