Yerevan /Mediamax/. The purchase of “ArmenTel” gave us the practice of developing## fixed connection services, which we can use in consolidation with Golden Telecom.

Mediamax reports that the Vice-President of “VimpelCom” on Business Development in CIS states Dmitri Pleskonos said this today in an interview to RBK Daily, answering the question on whether Russia is the only generator of ides or whether there were examples, when projects were extrapolated from CIS stated to the whole group.

“The development in CIS rendered “VimpelCom” serious help and gave much new knowledge”, Dmitri Pleskonos stated.

According to him, same are the matters with the 3G connection. “We first launched 3G services in Tajikistan. CIS states are initiators of a number of directions, as well as a testing area for determining the solutions, which in future may be realized in the whole Group of “VimpelCom” Company”, Pleskonos stated.

“In all CIS states there are different approaches to the regulation, sometimes those issues in other CIS states are solved quicker, than in Russia. For example, Moscow is still the stumbling block in development of 3G services – there are no free frequencies yet, since the spectrum belongs to the military, and it is necessary to clear it up. In a number of countries the issue of clearing the frequencies’ spectrum is simpler, partly because those countries are more compact. It is possible to form a network and launch a new service quicker there. Thus, we transfer the projects of other countries to Russia later, and for certain technologies Russia is not a priority country”, Executive Vice-President of “VimpelCom” stated.