First stage of IP/MPLS network construction completed in Armenia

Review of July 19-25 events in the field of telecommunications and information technologies.

GNC Alfa has completed the first stage of IP/MPLS network construction with 10Gbps network capacity. Networks in Yerevan and 16 Armenian towns have been put into operation. Coverage of 29 towns is envisaged till yearend. GNC-Alfa is a telecommunications network services operator in Armenia. The Company owns a fiber-optic network passing along the Armenia-Iran gas pipeline. GNC-Alfa network, built on technologies of American Juniper Networks, is designed to provide wholesale transport network services to fixed and mobile operators and ISPs, as well as transit services via Armenia.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Meanwhile, VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, has announced that from now on using unlimited internet, the “MTS Connect Unlimited” tariff plan subscribers will get 5 GB of high speed internet per month instead of the former 1 GB, paying the same monthly fee (AMD 8800). At that, the “MTS Connect” modem is provided free of charge in case of a one-year subscription, the company’s press service told PanARMENIAN.Net

The number of subscribers of VivaCell-MTS made 2.1mln people as of June 30, 2010. 3.9% growth was recorded in subscribers’ base of VivaCell-MTS as compared with the same period of last year, the company’s press service told PanARMENIAN.Net Meanwhile, the total number of subscribers of MTS company totaled 98.8mln as of June 30, 2010. Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE: MBT) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. MTS and its subsidiaries provide mobile communications in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus, the territory with a total population of more than 230mln.

Besides, on July 19, VivaCell-MTS Armenia and ezetop announced the launch of a new service - International Top Up - which offers Armenian people living or working abroad the possibility to recharge the VivaCell-MTS prepaid mobile of their families back home in Armenia. The new service will be offered in partnership with ezetop, a company based in Ireland that enables relatives abroad to support friends and family back home by delivering airtime credit directly to mobile phones. VivaCell-MTS mobiles in Armenia can now be easily recharged from abroad through ezetop retail locations across the US, Canada, Germany and Spain as well as online -www.ezetop.com.

On July 21, informatics laboratory will be opened as part of AybLab program in secondary school #1 of Berd town (Tavush region of Armenia). The laboratory is equipped with ten computers and is intended for theoretical and practical lessons of 20 students. The laboratory is connected to AybLab network, thus, securing exchange of experience, joint usage of limited resources, usage of common management technologies, etc. The laboratory was sponsored by co-founder of Ayb educational club, well-known financier Arthur Berd (France/U.S.), who will participate in the official opening ceremony of the laboratory.

AybLab is an integral laboratory complex with its space, furniture and equipment solutions, as well as security and communication systems. AybLabs on physics and chemistry already operate at a physical and mathematical school in Yerevan. Currently Ayb is establishing laboratories in schools of Yerevan and Armenia’s regions.

Gayane Mirzoyan / PanARMENIAN News
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