YEREVAN, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN. Arminco company - an Internet service provider in Armenia, has been fined by the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission in the amount of 2 million drams (about 5.5 thousand USD) for provision of IP voice services. Director of Arminco's Technical Unit Grigor Saghian told NT correspondent that ArmenTel company presented to the commission some facts as evidence that Arminco connected phone calls made to th city of Vanadzor. Taking into account the arguments put forward by Arminco, according to which the room with phones with these phone number is not used, its doors and windows are locked, the commission made a decision to reduce the initial amount of the fine - 4 million drams to 2 million drams. Armonco does not admit its guilt and proposed ArmenTel creating a joint commission to clear the problem, but the latter has not responded to this proposal. G. Saghian said that in the opinion of ArmenTel's representative, "Arminco proposed creating a commission instead of rejecting the accusation, so in this way Arminco admits its mistake." In the words of G. Saghian, the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission has no opportunity to perform any investigative functions, so it was guided by ArmenTel's arguments and imposed the fine. "We do not provide IP voice services and will take the respective steps to protect our rights," the director of Arminco's technical unit stated.

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