Connectivity Providers Database

Date Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:43 PM From: Hrant Dadivanyan <ran@styx.aic.net> To: mlizarza <mlizarza@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Cc: Edgar Danielyan <edd@danielyan.com>,Randy Bush <Randy@nsrc.org>, Steven Huter <sghuter@nsrc.org> Subject: RE: Armenian update Hello Dolores, All outgoing links are owned by ARMENTEL Corp. which has monopoly in telecommunications in Armenia. They have three channels: 2 Mbit/s satellite link to teleglobe.net (Canada), 2 Mbit/s fiber to rostelecom.ru (Russia) and 2 Mbit/s fiber to ukrtel.net (Ukraine). But they don't provide internet service to end-users (they are wholesale provider). Contact person for ARMENTEL Corp. is Sarkiss Minasyan <sarkiss@armentel.net>. All ISPs are intensively using wireless equipment as access points (preferred vendor is Cisco - former Aironet), however no one uses wireless WAN technologies. The number of customers grows fast and now is more than 10,000. High prices for service are slowing down the increase in numbers of internet users, which is the result of ARMENTEL's monopoly. ISP in AM Link Type Bandwidth Upstream ISP POP location(s) ========= =========== =========== ============== =============== ARMINCO ltd Ethernet 2.5 Mbit/s ARMENTEL Corp. Yerevan Stepanakert Giumry Vanadzor Hrazdan Etchmiadzin Aparan Kaphan Egegnadzor Goris WEB ltd Wireless 512 Kbit/s ARMENTEL Corp. Yerevan Giumry Vanadzor Ashtarak Netsys JVC unknown 512 Kbit/s ARMENTEL Corp. Yerevan INFOCOM CJSC Wireless 384 Kbit/s ARMENTEL Corp. Yerevan Cornet unknown 128 Kbit/s ARMENTEL Corp. Yerevan -ARMINCO ltd Hrant Dadivanyan ran@styx.aic.net -WEB Ltd Ruben Gevorkian ruben@r.am -Netsys JVC Gevorg Gevorgyan gevorg@netsys.am -INFOCOM CJSC Artak Gabrielyan artak@amilink.net -Cornet Gagik Hayrapetyan g.hayrapetyan@cornet.am Thank you, Hrant Hrant Dadivanyan <ran@styx.aic.net>