Beltelecom

Republic of Belarus is one of the main participants of the CIS with the population about 10 million people. The BelTelecom company is a chief operator of fixed connection in the country, servicing all lines fixed connections and being exclusive service provider on data transmission.

Assets

In 2010 five million subscribers used services of BelTelecom. Beltelekom owns share blocks of three largest national cellular operators.

Performance Indicators

2016

The net profit of the state operator was 118 million Belarusian rubles, or about 64 million dollars. In 2015 the net profit of the company was 117.1 million Belarusian rubles (about 59.5 million dollars).

Revenue the operator from sales of goods, products, works and services made 793 million rubles (about 428 million dollars). In 2015 sales proceeds were 680 million rubles (about 345 million dollars). Book value kompaniiuvelichitsya from 1.2 billion to 1.4 billion. Belarusian rubles.

Penetration of stationary broadband access on 100 residents of Belarus as of January 01, 2017 made 25 percent. The number of subscribers was more than 2.3 million. Average speed of broadband access in the Internet counting on one subscriber grew from 5.7 Mbps for the beginning of year to 8.8 Mbps on the end of the year (+3.1 Mbps). Penetration of service of IP television counting on 100 inhabitants of the republic made 16 percent. The number of subscribers – more than 1.3 million^[1].

The number of subscribers of commercial digital on-air TV broadcasting was more than 120 thousand, and Internet television - more than 15 thousand subscribers. The number of the subscribers connected to the IMS platform for the beginning of this year made 1.8 million.

The number of the subscribers connected on GPON technology reached 1 million (the million subscriber was connected at the end of October, 2016). For last year branches of the company construct and put into operation about 6000 km of fiber lines of communication.

For 2016 150.98 thousand access points of Wi-fi are set. In total across Republic of Belarus 530.34 thousand access points of Wi-fi, from them 122.45 thousand - in Minsk are set.

The general scope of the population of Republic of Belarus public digital TV a packet increased from 99.41% to 99.47%, on commercial TV: the 2nd multiplex from 95.1% to 95.23%, the 3rd multiplex from 93.62% to 93.72%.

History

2020: The former head of Beltelekom confessed to bribes in hundreds of thousands of dollars

On March 10, 2020 the Supreme Court of Belarus began to consider criminal case on the numerous facts of receiving and bribery during deliveries to the republic of telecommunication equipment, the computer equipment and the software concerning 16 persons. Among them — former general Sergey Sivodedov of Beltelekom. He confessed to receiving more than $470 thousand and 15 thousand euros bribes during the period from 2013 to 2019. Read more here.

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