Orange targets 95% pop coverage by end-2010

Orange Armenia plans to roll out voice and internet coverage to 95% of the Armenian population by the end of 2010. PanArmenian.Net quotes the Minister of Transport and Communication, Manuk Vardanyan, as saying that in a meeting with Olaf Swantee, France Telecom executive vice president for Europe and Sourcing, the French official confirmed the group intended to invest USD50 million to achieve the set target. Mr Vardanyan added that Orange Armenia’s improvement will not purely focus on the capital, but will also look to extend high speed mobile broadband to more ‘remote’ regions and villages of the Republic.