Paying the phone bill is getting very complicated these days. As it was, you had to stop by a post office each month to pay. Now the government and the Greek-owned phone company are in the middle of a battle over whether the Greeks are permitted to charge by the minute for local calls. The Greeks have been billing us for almost 3 months now for each minute we are on the phone (INTERNET!) and the government has told us not to bother pay the per-minute charges. Well it is not that easy. There is only one office in Armenia that can tell you how much of your bill is per minute calls, vs how much of your bills is for calling long distance (this includes towns like Dilijan and Goris, as well as mobile phone calls.) The lines there are of course ridiculous. If they were just charging by the minute to talk to people it wouldn't even cost so much, but being on the internet a couple of hours a day gets quite expensive... not that we know if we will ever have to pay all these per minute charges or not. They are now negotiating I think.