Yerevan, February 19 /Mediamax/. The transitional tariffs for primary and secondary services of the “ArmenTel” Company will function up to September 1 of 2007.

Mediamax reports that the given decision was made today during the session of the Commission on Regulation for Public Services (CRPS) of Armenia.

According to the decision, the earlier established date for filing applications on reconsideration of the tariffs for fixed telephone communication is prolonged from March 1 to September 1 of 2007 at the instance of the “ArmenTel” CJSC.

The Commission has already made a decision, according to which the application for the reconsideration of the tariffs should be presented to CRPS not later than June1 of 2007, for the Commission to be able to submit the proposal of the “ArmenTel” Company for inner and public discussion.

As the Director of “ArmenTel” on Policy and Regulation Issues Haik Faramazian told Mediamax, at present, the company, together with the CRPS, considers the list of activities, directed to gradually liberalizing the market, and since in November of 2007 the market should be fully liberalized, it would be to no purpose to establish new tariffs for a short period of time. According to the “ArmenTel” representative, at this moment, the company carries out calculations and it will present the newly-balanced tariffs to the Commission.