YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The construction of over 100-km Armenian section of Armenia-Iran fiber-optic communication line has been completed by an international consortium. Victor Koresh, the vice president for regional development of Komstar Obyedinennye TeleSistemy OJSC (Russia), which launched WiMAX network in Armenia, announced this on October 21. According to him, it is envisaged finishing the construction of 600-km fiber-optic line in 2009. Komstar has reached an agreement to use part of the commuication line's carrying capacity. To recap, Armenia is now connected to the outside world by fiber-optic communication lines (which pass through Georgia) of ArmenTel and Fibernet companies. Armenian-Norwegian company ADC also expressed an intention to build a communication line of this kind.

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