<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Alex Balashov wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 06/11/2012 01:34 AM, Vahan Yerkanian wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Armentel charges 5 AMD/min (~$0.0125) for all PSTN(+37410 included)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to +37460 calls. Armenian mobile operators charge 35-40 AMD/min<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(~$0.085 - $0.10), which is close to the international price for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">calls to +37460.<br></blockquote><br>So, just out of curiosity, does this mean that customers to whom you sell these +374 60 VoIP DIDs are inherently at a competitive disadvantage, since anyone 'locally' calling them off-net has to pay these metered rates?<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Everything has its cons and pros. Our customers enjoy free calls on-net, cheaper international prices and their local PSTN calls are at fixed price, while the +37410 customers pay almost double per minute after their monthly "included minutes" are used up. We've seen worse times when VoIP was banned and telecom was a monopoly.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Best regards,<br>Vahan Yerkanian<br>Team Lead, Voice Operations<br>ARMINCO Global Telecommunications<br>Work Phone: +37460270261<br>Website: <a href="http://www.arminco.com/">http://www.arminco.com/</a><br><br><br><br><br><br></span></div></div></body></html>