Yerevan, April 4 /Mediamax/. The Commission for Regulating Public Services of Armenia (CRPS) considered today the mutual complaints of the two mobile operators - “ArmenTel” and VivaCell.

Mediamax reports that, according to the decision, made by the Commission, the VivaCell Company must in the course of one day place information in its website on the tariffs, applied within the framework of the “Optima +” tariff plan, as well as to inform the CRPS on any changes in the tariff plans of the company in written form. At that, the CRPS established that VivaCell should also notify its subscribers about tariff changes in all the service centers.

The Commission made a decision to partly suspend the “Family and Friends” service, which the “ArmenTel” Company has been providing starting from March 1 of 2007 concerning the international calls, and charged the company to present grounds to CRPS in the course of 10 days, according to which the 27 drams per minute tariff within the framework of the “Family and Friend” service is not dumping.

The Commission decided that the VivaCell Company should in the course of 10 days present to the CRPS grounds for their statement, according to which the 27 drams per minute tariff, established by “ArmenTel” within the framework of the “Family and Friends” service is dumping.

Mediamax reports that the General Director of the “ArmenTel” CJSC Oleg Bliznyuk stated that the tariff, established within the framework of the “Family and Friends” service is not unprofitable for the Company, it continues to bring profit and, consequently, cannot be considered dumping. The General Director of “ArmenTel” stressed that the new owners of the Company have always been for the reduction of tariffs, which will allow making the mobile service more available for the citizens of Armenia.

“When we entered the market, we announced right away that we will not be earning money by means of increasing the prices”, Oleg Bliznyuk stated.

“Our calculations evidence that the given tariff is over the prime cost of the service. If we can provide this service by this price, and the other operator cannot, it is not our problem”, the General Director of “ArmenTel” stated.

The General Director of VivaCell Company Ralph Yirikian refused to comment on the statements of Oleg Bliznyuk, noting that he will be following the decision of the CRPS. He also noted that in the nearest future he plans to give a news conference and to tell about the plans of VivaCell.