Armenians are the most active mobile Internet users in Beeline Group

YEREVAN, December 7. /ARKA/. Armenians are the most active mobile Internet users in Beeline Group, Beeline CEO in Armenia Andrey Pyatakhin said on Friday. 

They use about 3Gb per one user every month.

He said the annual mobile Internet consumption growth is more than 50%, and thanks to that mobile internet development is one of the key focuses of the company.  

Pyatakhin also stressed that the mobile Internet price is becoming more attractive to clients from year to year. 

“The bulk of the company's investments in development of mobile networks are made in mobile Internet development,” Pyatakhin said. “We build new stations, expand channels between stations to increase their Internet-conveying capacity, make new services on the core of the network to make connection faster, expand 
Internet channels with other countries to increase speeds.”  

Increase in sales of smartphones and tablets shows the growing popularity of mobile Internet. 

“The company's branded smartphones have been bestsellers at the country's telephone sets market throughout the entire year,” Pyatakhin said. “There are already several models at the market, including telephone sets of a more expensive segments and phones with two SIM cards, and this is very attractive to clients. Some 25,000 Beeline smartphones and tablets were sold.” 

Pyatakhin said that mobile Internet is not a rival to fixed Internet – it rather supplements fixed Internet. 

“The user's usual profile is following: the user comes home and use Wi-Fi network at home, but he/she doesn't care through which technology the network is available – optical network or Hi-Line. Outdoor he wants to have Internet and he uses mobile Internet, but in a cafe he shift to Wi-Fi and use the fixed Internet.”

Pyatakhin said that such a combined usage allow clients always to be on the line, and such a profile is seen at almost all users – corporate clients and individuals. 

ArmenTel CJSC, a subsidiary of Russian VimpelCom (trading as Beeline), provides fixed and mobile telecommunication services and a high-speed access to Internet..-0---

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19:21 12/07/2015