Beltelecom RUE

The Republic of Belarus is one of the main participants in the CIS with a population of about 10 million people. BelTelecom is the country's leading fixed-line operator, serving all fixed-line services and being the exclusive provider of data services.

Aktivs

In 2010, five million subscribers used BelTelecom services. Beltelecom owns stakes in the three largest national mobile operators.

Performance indicators

2023:7 thousand km of fiber and a network of charging stations for electric vehicles. Results of the year

The results of its activities in 2023 were summed up in the winter of 2024 by the Belarusian republican unitary enterprise Beltelecom. The company announced the construction of more than 7 thousand km of fiber-optic communication lines (VOLS) and the creation of a network of 100 electric charging stations for electric vehicles under the Evika brand.

According to Beltelecom, the total length of modern communication lines operated by the company has reached 200 thousand km. Particular attention was paid to connecting small settlements with households from 50 to 100, 82% of which are already provided with a fiber optic approach. In 2024, it is planned to increase this figure to 90%.

Freepik

First Deputy General Director of Beltelecom RUE Gennady Melnikov noted that in 2023 Beltelecom RUE met all the key indicators reflecting the development of the enterprise. He stressed that the main investments were directed to the implementation of projects within the framework of the state program "Digital Development of Belarus" for 2021-2025.

The company also announced the expansion of its subscriber base. The number of technology users GPON reached 2.95 million, and the total number of subscribers to multiservice networks amounted to 3.77 million. Internet There are 2.5 million active broadband users in byfly, and ZALA television has more than 2.53 million viewers.

Beltelecom is actively developing the Video Control service, installing 50,000 video cameras in 2023. The total number of cameras exceeded 150 thousand, and the service is used by more than 270 thousand subscribers of residential buildings and almost 10 thousand legal entities.

The company also presented the mobile application "My City," which operates already in 45 cities of Belarus, including two regional centers - Mogilev and Vitebsk. Another 18 cities are preparing to launch this service.

In the business segment, unlimited Internet, Business Case and Video Control service packages remain the most popular services. Beltelecom also actively creates local area networks and connects functional cloud PBXs for corporate clients.^[1]

2016

The net profit of the state operator amounted to 118 million Belarusian rubles, or about $64 million. In 2015, the company's net profit amounted to 117.1 million Belarusian rubles (about $59.5 million).

The operator's revenue from the sale of goods, products, works and services amounted to 793 million rubles (about $428 million). In 2015, sales revenue amounted to 680 million rubles (about $345 million). The company's book value increased from 1.2 billion to 1.4 billion. Belarusian rubles.

The penetration of stationary broadband access to 100 residents of Belarus as of January 01, 2017 amounted to 25 percent. The number of subscribers amounted to more than 2.3 million. The average speed of broadband Internet access per subscriber increased from 5.7 Mbps at the beginning of the year to 8.8 Mbps at the end of the year (+ 3.1 Mbps). The penetration of IP television services per 100 residents of the republic was 16 percent. The number of subscribers - more than 1.3^[2].

The number of subscribers of commercial digital broadcast television broadcasting amounted to more than 120 thousand, and Internet television - more than 15 thousand subscribers. The number of subscribers connected to the IMS platform at the beginning of this year amounted to 1.8 million.

The number of subscribers connected using GPON technology reached 1 million (a million subscriber was connected at the end of October 2016). Over the past year, the company's branches have built and commissioned about 6,000 km of fiber-optic communication lines.

In 2016, 150.98 thousand Wi-Fi access points were installed. In total, 530.34 thousand Wi-Fi access points have been installed in the Republic of Belarus, of which 122.45 thousand are in Minsk.

The total coverage of the population of the Republic of Belarus with a publicly available digital TV package increased from 99.41% to 99.47%, on commercial TV: 2nd multiplex from 95.1% to 95.23%, 3rd multiplex from 93.62% to 93.72%.

History

2024: Appointment of Alexei Ivashkin as CEO

Alexei Ivashkin on July 10, 2024 was appointed the new general director of the republican unitary enterprise Beltelecom, the largest telecom operator in Belarus. Previously, he headed the republican unitary enterprise for supervision of telecommunications "BelGIE." Read more here.

2020: Former head of Beltelecom confesses to hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes

On March 10, 2020, the Supreme Court of Belarus began to consider a criminal case on the numerous facts of receiving and paying bribes during the supply of telecommunication equipment, computer equipment and software to the republic against 16 persons. Among them is the former general of Beltelecom Sergey Sivodedov. He confessed to receiving more than $470 thousand and 15 thousand euros in bribes from 2013 to 2019. Read more here.

See also

• Web development (Belarus market)
• Internet in Belarus
• Cellular communications (Belarusian market)
• IT market of Belarus
• Economy of Belarus