Rostelecom not to block Russian websites from black books in Armenia

YEREVAN, September 22./ARKA/. Rostelecom has no intention to block Russian websites from black books in Armenia, Alexey Rogdev, chief of division in charge of relations with Internet providers, told journalists on Monday. 

Armenian Internet users faced some difficulties in downloading the websites included in black books in Russia.  

The list of the prohibited websites includes pages with child pornography, drug usage and suicide propaganda etc.  

If hosting provider or the website owner doesn’t remove the prohibited information, then the entire resource is inserted in the list. Three months are given for appealing against the decision in court. 

“We have found a solution – it is already working in a test mode and GNC-Alfa traffic in Armenia and our other international partners from the beginning of the summer and is not blocked,” Rogdev said. 

He said that the system is planned to be commercialized in November 2014. 

Rostelecom’s Armenian subsidiary offers high-speed Internet services, IP television and telephony service.  Its fiber-optic network covers 80% of the territory of Armenia being connected to the main regional backbones and major international traffic exchange channels via Georgia and Iran. 

Rostelecom is present in every segment of the telecommunications services market and coverage of more than 34 million households in Russia. It holds a leading position on the Russian broadband and pay TV markets, with over 10.9 million fixed-line broadband subscribers and more than 7.7 million pay TV customers, of which more than 2.4 million use the unique nationwide “Interactive TV” product. 

The Group’s consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2014 was RUB 80.4 billion and its OIBDA reached RUB 26.5 billion (33.0% of revenue), with a net profit of RUB 6.9 billion. Rostelecom is an absolute market leader in providing the telecommunications services to Russian government departments and corporate users at every level. --0--