ARMENIAN TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION MINISTER: INTERNET-PROVIDERS SHOULD HOLD MORE ACTIVE MARKETING ESPECIALLY IN REGIONS
ArmInfo
2009-07-06 14:56:00
The Internet-providers should hold mote active marketing especially in
regions, Armenian Transport and Communication Minister Gurgen Sargsyan
said over the forum "Communication Technologies Leaders without Ties",
dedicated to communication problems and held in Dilijan on 4-5 July.
‘The Internet services price much depends on the number of users. Today
their number is small in Armenia. Moreover, the point is that we
still do not have a strict statistics about the number of users,
different sources give different data which do not meet each other. At
present we want to clarify the more or less exact number of users’,
– the minister said and added the Internet-providers should hold
more active marketing policy. ‘It is also necessary to fix the market
regulating laws, which would stimulate providers to work more actively
when attracting clients. The region residents often do not know who
to apply to so that to get Internet at home. Provider should go to
the regions and offer services on a free of charge basis for some
period of time. I am sure in that case nine out of ten clients will
continue using Internet on the basis of payment’ the minister said.
‘Our task is to have Internet-communication which has wide coverage
in all over the country. It is not so much important if it will be
ArmenTel or some other company, if they will act alone or together. One
can complain on the conditions of the market, machinery of its
regulation or something else, but he should first of all work and
create the infra-structure. The more infra-structures the better for
the user and operator’, – Sargsyan said.