Rostelecom makes surprise to old people houses and disabled centers in Armenia

YEREVAN, December 28. /ARKA/. Ahead of New Year festivities, GFC-ALFA Company, trading as Rostelecom Armenia, made a surprise to old people houses and disabled centers in Armenia, giving them free TV decoders in order to be bale to watch digital television to which Armenia shifts formally from January 1, 2016, also connecting them free to its services and providing free computers.

The company said in a press release that people in these institutions in Vanadzor, Gyumri and Abovyan, will be now able to watch high quality New Year entertainment TV  programs. The notebooks Rostelecom Armenia presented to these institutions will facilitate bedridden patients' communication with relatives, it added.

Rostelecom quoted heads of these institutions as saying that elderly people are showing growing interest in Internet and video calls via Skype to communicate with relatives.

Rostelecom plans to establish contacts with all care centers in Armenia in 2016 to help raise their population's computer literacy as part of its Internet ABC project.

GNC-ALFA began promotion and sale of broadband Internet, IP-TV and a new generation of IP-telephony in Armenia under the brand of Rostelecom from 2012 December.   The company’s fiber-optic network covers 80% of the territory of Armenia, extending to more about 3000 km.  The network is connected to the main regional backbones and major traffic exchange sites, as well as international channels via Georgia and Iran. 
Rostelecom is one of the biggest national telecommunications companies in Russia and Europe, with a presence in every segment of the telecommunications services market and coverage of more than 34 million households in Russia.
The Company holds a leading position on the Russian broadband and pay TV markets, with over 11.2 million fixed-line broadband subscribers and more than 8.0 million pay TV customers, of which more than 2.7 million use the unique nationwide “Interactive TV” product. --0--

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18:35 12/28/2015