Armenia Phone Cards
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 | This is what you need to know when you buy calling cards: Connection Fee
Connection fee or first minute surcharge is charged when a call is connected. The charge varies between different service providers. If you make few long duration calls this charge is usually insignificant, but if you make frequent short duration calls you should look for a card with low or no connection fee.
Maintenance Fee
The maintenance fee is charged on weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis, after the first use. If you intend to buy a card and use it in short time this charge is not significant, but if you intend to make few calls and keep your card for a long time you should choose a low maintenance fee card or no-maintenance fee card.
Minutes Rounding
Minutes rounding is the basic unit to record the length of the phone call. This varies between service providers and products. Cards may come with 1 second, 30 second or even 3 or 6 minute rounding. You should keep attention to phone card minutes rounding so you buy a card that fits you calling patterns. |
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Armenia Telecommunication* |
Telephones - main lines in use: | 600,000 (2002) | Telephones - mobile cellular: | 50,000 (2002) | Telephone system: | general assessment: system inadequate; now 90% privately owned and undergoing modernization and expansion
domestic: the majority of subscribers and the most modern equipment are in Yerevan (this includes paging and mobile cellular service)
international: Yerevan is connected to the Trans-Asia-Europe fiber-optic cable through Iran; additional international service is available by microwave radio relay and landline connections to the other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and through the Moscow international switch and by satellite to the rest of the world; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (2000) | Radio broadcast stations: | AM 9, FM 6, shortwave 1 (1998) | Television broadcast stations: | 3 (plus an unknown number of repeaters) (1998) | Internet country code: | .am | Internet Service Providers (ISPs): | 9 (2001) | Internet users: | 30,000 (2001) |
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*Armenia telecommunications data is from CIA World Factbook.
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