On June 24, the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the opening ceremony of DigiTec Business and Microsoft Innovation forums. Greeting the attendees, the Prime Minister gave importance to the big interest in the forum as DigiTec is the platform that provides an opportunity for the government to get in touch with all representatives of the field, discuss and understand the priorities and the problems. “The significance of this platform is that we see the achievements of the companies and the products and services they offer to clients.” According to the Prime Minister, IT technologies have a key role to play in the 21st century. “The IT sector has had a leading position in Armenia’s economy over the past 3 years. I wish to note some figures which witness my statement. We had 1.000.000 mobile Internet users in 2009. This index rose to 1.343.000 and 1.700.000 in 2010 and in the first quarter of 2011 respectively. The following figures describe the overall state of affairs in the sphere of broadband Internet: we boasted some 70.000 subscriptions in 2009, 170.000 subscriptions in 2010 and 240.000 in the first quarter of 2011. The most important thing is that prices go down as clients expand. Prices for up to 1Mb/sec broadband services averaged 234.000 drams in 2009, 71.000 drams in 2010 and 55.000 drams in the first quarter of 2011. This year we will state further slide in prices,” noted Tigran Sargsyan. Then the Prime Minister visited DigiTech Business forum exhibition and got acquainted with the offers of IT companies. This 4th DigiTec forum includes a Microsoft Innovation forum, as well as DigiTec Business forum exhibition and a series of technological conferences and seminars, during which the latest solutions and services of the companies will be presented, which are envisaged for businessmen and officials. The department of information and public relations of the RA Government informed “Noyan Tapan” about this.

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