Internet - the next step...

ArmenTel has announced new internet services/prices. Since the internet monopoly was broken last fall, the biggest break in price was by the satellite companies. Now ArmenTel has been trying to compete with easier/cheaper dialup service (which sucks), and now it has announced very high speed DSL, but, as usual, there is a catch. You pay per megabyte, so it is still nowhere near US prices for even the average user. Anyway, here are the new prices... I can't wait to see them drop and become unlimited usage. Maybe in another 4 or 5 steps?

The monthly user charge for the ASDL package is AMD 4,800 for 100 MB of Internet traffic, 9160 AMD for 300 MB, 10800 AMD for 500 MB, 27600 AMD for 2000 MB, 110700 AMD for 10,000 MB. (note: 10,000 dram is about $30)

The Golden Apricot Film Festival continues. As usual, the confusion over which movie has what language subtitles is a complete mess. They don't tell you, so you won't know till you enter. Russian language movies have no subtitles it seems, many movies have been given Armenian subtitles, but then if the movie originally had English subtitles these may be supplemented or overwritten with Armenian.

Last night was an Armenian Navy Band Concert in conjunction with the Golden Apricot. The venue, like all of Yerevan yesterday, was scorching hot. The tickets were extremely expensive at 5,000-8,000 dram, but the place was packed, and it really was one of the best ANB concerts I've been to, with of course the crowd going wild when they played Ararat...