YEREVAN, DECEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. ArmenTel company has finished the introduction of the new billing system of the fixed-line phone communication. This system provides users of fixed-line phones with the opportunity of using the following services: - Making payments in various ways (including the use of payment cards and "cash in" devices that provide the opportunity to make on-line payments. - Sending of bills and decipherments by the electronic post. - Control of the fixed-line phone number account. It allows to avoid accumulation of a large debt when, for example, the phone line is used by a third person and there is a virus in the computer. In such cases the phone number is diconnected when the maximum amount of the bill stipulated by the user is exceeded, and it happens before the monthly bill for the given phone number is presented. - Automatic connection of the phone number when the user makes payments and repays debts. Henceforth phone numbers of subscribers of the digital stations will be connected immediately after making a payment. - Implementation of centralized billing throughout Armenia, which allows to make calculations (of payments, phone conversations and other services) for Yerevan and regions at the same time. As a result of the introduction of the new billing system, disconnection of fixed-line phone numbers (during the first 4-5 days, the disconnection will be one-sided: users will receive calls) will finish automatically - by the system. Based on it, payments for fixed-line phone communication have to be made in the period stipulated by the agreement, that is, until the last day of the month to follow the reporting month (for example, the payment for November has to be made until December 31 inclusive). According to information of the PR department of ArmenTel company, in 2008, a new service will be introduced for users of fixed-line phone communication, which will allow to manage services and see decipherments via the Internet.

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