ComNews Research analyst Maria Korobkova made a presentation at “Technologies and Telecommunications in Mass Media” ongoing annual conference at Armenia Marriott Hotel.

According to her, the past 3 years saw 65% increase in the number of mobile subscribers in Armenia against average 35.7% increase in CIS states.

“Many link the increase in mobile services with local population number, while in fact it is conditioned by investments,” Korobkova said.

Though mobile service revenues decreased by 47.6% to total USD140 mln. in 2011 against USD 243 mln. of 2008, 21.9% increase in Armenia’s subscribers’ talk duration has been observed in 2010.

Organized by ArmenTel, the event brought together journalists from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan .

Conference speakers are Maria Korobkova from ComNews Research, Ksenia Boletskaya from Vedomosti newpaper, nomobile.ru project coordinator Nikolay Turubar as well as author and blogger Leonid Kaganov.