Arminfo. The four telecommunications operators in Armenia paid more than 33 billion drams ($91.1 million) into the state budget in January-September 2026, an annual increase of 7.6% (compared with 10% growth a year earlier). According to data from the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia, 8.8 billion drams of this amount came from direct taxes (including profit tax and income tax), and 14.8 billion drams from VAT.
For the fourth consecutive year, Viva Armenia CJSC (Viva brand) leads among Armenia’s telecommunications operators, ranking 16th (compared with 13th a year earlier). The company paid 14.7 billion drams into the state treasury in January-September 2026, of which 4.5 billion drams came from direct taxes (including profit tax and income tax), and 6.1 billion drams from VAT.
It is followed by UCom, ranking 27th (compared with 31st a year ago), having paid 9.1 billion drams into the state budget in taxes, of which 1.7 billion drams came from direct taxes (including profit tax and income tax) and 4.8 billion drams from VAT.
Telecom Armenia (TEAM brand) ranked 37th among the largest taxpayers (compared with 33rd a year earlier), paying 7.3 billion drams into the state budget in taxes, of which 1.7 billion came from direct taxes and 3 billion from VAT.
GNC-ALFA (OVIO brand) advanced from 214th to 151st place, paying more than 1.8 billion drams into the state budget in taxes, of which 835.5 million came from direct taxes (including profit tax and income tax) and 840.3 million from VAT.
The share of Armenia’s four telecommunications operators in the total tax revenues of the 1,000 largest taxpayers decreased only slightly over the year
- from 2.1% to 2%.
It should be recalled that in January-September 2025, the four telecommunications operators paid 30.7 billion drams ($80.4 million) into the state budget in taxes, including 8.3 billion from direct taxes and 142 billion from VAT. (The calculated exchange rate of the dram against the US dollar as of 09/30/2026 was 362.83 drams/$1).
It should be noted that in early July 2026, Viva Armenia CJSC announced the conclusion of a deal to acquire the shares of GNC-ALFA CJSC, which operates under the Ovio brand. This deal is a strategic step in Viva’s development and is aimed at creating a fully-fledged convergent platform combining mobile communications, fixed-line internet, television, telecommunications transport infrastructure and digital services into a single ecosystem. As Viva CEO Armen Avetisyan noted: "The acquisition of Ovio is of long-term strategic importance for Viva and fully aligns with the company’s course toward digital transformation, business diversification and strengthening technological leadership. Our strategic advantage is digital convergence. We are consistently creating an ecosystem in which mobile communications, fixed-line internet, television, cloud, content and other digital services operate as a single whole. The creation and development of our own fixed-line landscape will enable Viva to significantly strengthen not only its infrastructure capabilities but also its product leadership, ensuring maximum diversification of its product portfolio and a new level of customer experience". The integration of Viva’s and Ovio’s network infrastructure will ensure increased capacity, higher data transmission speeds, and improved quality and reliability of communications. Unified network management will make it possible to connect services for private and business customers more quickly, develop base-station infrastructure more efficiently and accelerate the deployment of next-generation communications technologies. The deal is also of major importance for Armenia’s telecommunications resilience.
