The satellite, fitted with 36 active Ku- and C-band transponders, will be built by Orbital Sciences Corporation using a STAR-2 platform.

The election campaign in Azerbaijan is coming to an end, as always, on a note of anti-Armenian hysteria. Every parliamentary candidate in Azerbaijan feels it his duty to ‘return the occupied land and punish the aggressor”. These statements, that are as far from common sense as they are from reality, are supported by court experts and political analysts.

Over 160 thousand broadband internet users were reported as of October 1 against 125 thousand in January 1. Twofold decrease of dial-up internet users was observed over the first half-year of 2010, their current number comprising 21 thousand. In January-September 2010, 7833 Mbps bandwidth was reported in Armenia providing twofold traffic increase.