Armentel will completely digitize Armenia’s fixed-line telephony network in 2010, told Dmitri Pleskonos, OJSC Vimpelkom’s executive vice president for business development in CIS.
Currently, the level of digitization of Armenia’s fixed-line telephony network is 67 per cent. According to Mr. Pleskonos, this is a very high performance for Armenia, particularly, if we compare with the same rate in Russia, which does not surpass 47 per cent.
Among CIS countries Uzbekistan has the highest level (equal to 69 per cent) of digitization of a fixed-line telephony, which is only 2 per cent more than the same rate in Armenia. “We do not project to cut investments into financially efficient activities in Armenia,” added Mr. Pleskonos.
Over the last two years Armentel invested USD 200 million to digitize analogous telephony stations in Armenia. The company announced about digitizing three more stations in Yerevan in April of 2009, which raised the level of digitization of the capital to 90 per cent. Armentel projects to digitize all analogous stations of Armenia’s fixed telephony in 2010.
