ArmenTel announces its technical readiness to enhance the internet speed up to 60Mbps

Yerevan/Mediamax/. ArmenTel will be able to provide up to 60Mbps internet speed through its subscriber lines, stated the company’s CEO Igor Klimko while presenting the company’s vision on how the internet will develop in Armenia within coming years.

Igor Klimko said that following the market demand, the company has invested about USD 30mln in its chain infrastructure to gradually enhance the speeds over the past 1-2 years, Mediamax reports.

 “Our network is ready to much higher speeds and today’s presentation was aimed at signaling the Armenian internet community on how the internet will develop in Armenia in the future”, said Igor Klimko.

“ArmenTel” Technical Director Vladimir Sachkov introduced the VDSL technology through which the company can start providing internet in already 2012. The technology allows providing up to 60 Mbps downstream speed and 11 Mbps upstream speed.

According to Igor Klimko, ArmenTel hasn’t got many subscribers yet who need such speeds but the company’s forecasts show that the company’s subscribers will shift from ADSL to VDSL within next 2 years.

“1-3Mbps is the most popular speed among the subscribers whereas it will make 5-10Mbps by the end of 2012”, said Igor Klimko adding that the company will enhance the speeds as the demand grows without increasing the prices at the same time.

The head of the D-Link office in Armenia (supplier of VDSL devices) Arman Shahnazaryan demonstrated models of VDSL modems. He said that such equipment is widely spread in the South-East Asia while it’s not used in our region yet.