YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Data transfer from Armenia to the outside world is currently done through the only fiber optic trunk that passes through the territory of Georgia. Harald Grytten, director general of the Armenian-Norwegian Armenian Datacom Company (ADC, www.adc.am) told NT correspondent that the high prices of data transfer services in Armenia are conditioned by this monopoly. According to him, the data transfer traffic prices are very high in Armenia as compared with international prices. He said that there is a project to construct a new Europe-Caucasus-Asia fiber optic trunk. In his words, it has not yet been decided whether the trunk will pass through Armenia or not, but there is a hope that having a new connection to international networks will help reduce the impact of Georgia's monopoly.

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