A RALLY AGAINST “ARMENTEL”

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Today a rally was organized against “ArmenTel” opposite the Ministry of Transportation and Communication. This time the initiators of the rally were a number of companies providing Internet services.

The strikers claim that over 100 companies were deprived of telephone connection without preliminary warning at 2:00 on September 7. When they tried to make inquiries from the Committee Regulating Public Services they were told that they must turn to “ArmenTel” with that question as the Committee is not entitled to deal with the matter bothering them. “When the Ministry of Transportation and Communication regulated the sphere we had no problems on this score. But now neither the Committee Regulating Public Services nor “ArmenTel” want to fulfil their functions and obligations,” says Gnel Militonyan, head of one of the companies.

He assures that their activity doesn’t contradict the provisions of License 60; they made their payments in due time and have faced no problems. Then the participants of the rally headed to the Committee Regulating Public Services to talk to Robert Nazaryants, chairman of the Committee.

They have also issued a complaint-statement to the Committee Regulating Public Services, President Kocharyan, RA NA Speaker and RA Prime Minister. The statement says that many employees of companies providing Internet services have been left without work because of the telephone disconnection and they demand either to resume their connection or to provide their workers with job. By the way, their workers are mainly pensioners, invalids, students and most of them live in regions. Over 50 companies signed the statement.

At present, the strikers are opposite the Committee Regulating Public Services.