Virayeshgar (Vira) is a Tehran based software engineering firm (major products are Persian DataEase and WordPerfect) that also has a local BBS providing Internet email service. The BBS is served by two 33,600 baud modems and uses UUCP twice a day to receive and transmit emails via HOLONET in the U.S. (San Francisco bay area). Internet services began in June 1994.
Vira's one-time registration fee is 200,000 rials and it charges 2,200 rials per each mail sent or received (about 1 kb in size). Vira's dialup numbers in Iran are:
+ 98 21 884-1316
+ 98 21 883-9620
+ 98 21 884-1317
+ 98 21 883-9619
Standard user emails at Vira are provided as firstname.lastname@vira.com. Various offline services such as ftp/archie/www/news via email are also part of the package. Vira also echos some of the more technical USENET newsgroups.