Armenia's Telecommunications Sector Set to Grow

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2005--"2005 Central Asian Broadband and Internet Markets", a new report offered by Biz-lib.com, suggests that Armenia's telecommunications sector is steadily growing. With almost 600,000 fixed-line subscribers for a population of about 4 million people, the level of investment in infrastructure and new services has begun to increase. [...]. ArmenTel, the country's national telecom provider, has exclusive rights to the provision of all telecoms services, including public switched telephony services and mobile telephony, in Armenia until 2013.

The report notes that Internet services are outside ArmenTel's monopoly. The country's Internet market is small (penetration 7.5%), but has been developing steadily. [...].

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