YEREVAN, October 17. /ARKA/. ArmenTel telecom operator (trading as Beeline) said today its payphones across the country can be used from now on to make free calls to any fixed number of the company in Armenia.



To make a free call one has to dial first 9. Then one has to dial the area code and then wait about 5 seconds and then dial the local fixed phone number.



ArmenTel CEO Andrei Pyatakhin said in a press release that the company continues to modernize the fixed network. 'Now, residents of Armenia can use any payphone to make free calls to any fixed Beeline number in Armenia,' he said.



"This initiative is part of our social responsibility strategy expressing our love for customers. Beeline aims to help people change their lives for the better, and the possibility of free calls is part of that strategy," - Pyatakhin said.



According to Beeline commercial director Hayk Karapetyan, public payphones are an integral part of the history of Yerevan and Beeline decided not to close that page and give it a second life.



"To this end, we have repaired our payphones and now offer an opportunity to all residents of Armenia to use them free of charge ", - said Karapetyan. He said there are 400 Beeline payphones throughout Armenia.



ArmenTel is entirely owned by VimpelCom. It provides fixed and mobile telephony services, as well as high-speed Internet and IPTV.-0-





19:13 17.10.2016