Beltelecom is a modern telecommunication company with a long history, the personnel of which provides and develops communication technologies important for the state, society, private and corporate customers. The company holds a leading position on the telecommunication market of the Republic of Belarus being the largest telecommunication operator in the territory of our country.
Mission of Beltelecom - bringing people together, giving the freedom to communicate and obtain information.
The company’s brand portfolio consists of the brand Beltelecom, that represents voice communication, data transmission, hosting and other services as well as the brands byfly (high-speed Internet access) and ZALA (interactive television).
byfly – is a strong and independent brand, in the trading portfolio of which the best offers on Internet access for corporate and home use are collected. Today byfly is both a wired and wireless Internet access ensuring high speed of data transmission, comfortable work at home and at work. In January 2013 the number of subscribers of Internet operator byfly in the Republic of Belarus exceeded 1 million 600 thousand people.
Currently ZALA offers about 40 TV channels in the basic packages. Interactivity of ZALA allows a subscriber to watch favorite TV programs at the time convenient exactly for him/her.
Through the service «Informational portal» of the interactive television ZALA subscribers can view latest news, weather forecasts, exchange rates as well as to pay utility and communication services using payment system «TV-banking» staying inside.
Phone services enable automatic telephone connections between subscribers. Today the number of the phone services subscribers exceeded 4 million 290 thousand people. The enterprise has installed an extensive telecommunication network in the territory of the country, backbone fiber optic communication lines (FOCL) of total length of over 34 thousand kilometers.
For the convenience of its subscribers, Beletelecom has a network of service centers throughout the country. There are over 200 service centers of the company in the capital, regional and district centers. Today, by virtue of efforts of Beltelecom, up-to-date telecommunication services are available throughout the country.
Currently Beltelecom conducts works on modernization of intraregional data transmission networks using DWDM equipment which ensures traffic transmission bandwidth at the segments Regional center – district center in the capacity over 10 Gbps that will significantly increase the quality of current data transmission services provision to the subscribers.
At present RUE Beltelecom ensures transmission of TV and radio programs via communication channels from broadcast-television complexes of television and radio broadcasting companies to television and radio transmission stations. Transmission of unscheduled TV programs, «video bridges» and «video channel on demand» from the event venues and other occasions is performed at requests of television and radio broadcasting companies. Broadcasting of TV or radio channels both in analogue and digital formats is organized to all the existing analogue and digital transmitters.
As a part of the execution of «State program on implementation of digital TV and radio broadcasting in the Republic of Belarus by 2015» RUE Beltelecom performs planned modernization of TV program distribution network since 2005. For this purpose modern equipment is used, that performs digital signal transmission for TV channels broadcasting in DVB-T and DVB-T2 standards via fiber optic line. Today the delivery of digital package is ensured from 8 TV programs to 68 TV and radio broadcasting stations.
By 2015 RUE Beltelecom will additionally ensure TV signal broadcasting of more than 30 newly constructed television and radio transmission stations.
Beltelecom was founded on July 3, 1995 as Republican Association. On 1 August 2004 the company was re-organized to the Republican Unitary Telecommunication Enterprise (RUE) Beltelecom. Regional unitary enterprises as well as the Minsk City Telephone Network, Long Distance Communications and the Minsk Telephone-Telegraph Station were re-organized into branches of Beltelecom by affiliation.
Today Beltelecom includes 10 Branches and 2 Divisions.
Branches:
- Brest Branch
- Vitebsk Branch
- Gomel Branch
- Grodno Branch
- Mogilev Branch
- Minsk Branch
- Minsk City Telephone Exchange Branch
- Long-Distance Communication Branch
- MinskTelephone and Telegraph Exchange Branch
- Agricultural Subsidiary Economy Branch
Divisions in Minsk:
- International Switching Center
- Information and Accounting Center