WHAT IS K-TELECOM?

Support A1+!

”Under the decision on allowing the license for rendering services of mobile communication in Armenia, Executive Power approved the results of the tender represented by the tender commission set up by Government decision and recognized “K-TeleCom“ CJSC as the winner of the tender. Some instructions were set to Transport and Communication and Justice Ministers”. It’s the extract from the release of Government sitting.

We asked both Government, Justice Ministry and Transport and Communication Ministry what the information meant. Ara Saghatelyan, Press Secretary of Justice Ministry didn’t answer our questions. “Ask the one conducting the tender”, he said.

It turns the specially established commission held the tender. Communication and Transport Minister Andranik Manukyan heads the committee. “Phone the information service!”, Minister answered when we tried to ask him about the information.

Nether the local nor the cell phones of the information service answered. We managed to obtain some information from Mary Harutyunyan, head of Government Department of Public Relations.

It turns it was decided at Government special sitting last evening to conduct a tender for rendering mobile communication services. It was decided yesterday that Andranik Manukyan will head the tender commission. These mean depriving “ArmenTel” of the monopoly for so-called “SIM” card service, the second operator will function in the sphere. But another thing is noteworthy.

Under the Law on ”Licensing”, there is a special procedure set for conducting a tender, which takes a long time. During that time the tender participants introduce their applications and tender packages, and then each package is studied separately. Let’s remind that months ago when journalists wondered when the second operator would function in the sphere of doing mobile communication services, officials always answered that a tender would be held after settling the problematic issues with “ArmenTel”.

Officials keep affirming for the time being no company wished to enter the Armenian market.

Was everything carried out by Law? How it happened that a decision on conducting a tender was made yesterday and the tender was held the next day by 11:00 AM? Why weren’t the journalists informed about the decision made at the special sitting of Government during the press conference? Why was everything performed in secret? Why don’t any of officials want to answer the questions?

All these cause thoughts. At last, what does “K-TeleCom” mean? Is that “Karabakh-TeleCom”? We didn’t find this, either.