MAP > Internet Providers in Belarus

The Belaru’s government as well as the telecom regulator have a three five year projects that have focus on developing telecom sector and the digital economy. Some progress has been made at these programs that runs to the year 2020, approaching half way stage. In particular, the efforts which have been concentrated on ensuring that the mobile network operators to the trial of the 5G services, during first half of the year 2019, while one is laying over 10,000 kilometers of fiber cabling. By the year 2018, on the month of August, close to 2 million GPON connections got to be made as part of the programs. Such programs were initiated while this country experienced a fall in the economic growth, and in the year 2015/2016 and went on to form portion of the wider efforts to develop growth through the promotions of the digital economy.

The improvement returned in the year 2017 and 2018, while the inflation got the chance to be leveled out, where it got the opportunity to be accounted for as the hyper inflationary. Fall of Belarusian Ruble in connection to alternate monetary standards, and this includes Euro, inciting government to go on and redenominate cash in the year 2016 on July, with the BYR 10,000 getting to be BYN1. Inadequately performing economy affected the operator income, specifically for the subsidies of the Telecom Austria and the Turkcell. Such financial troubles have diminished client spend, surrendering to the lower and investment.

There have remained a lot of room for advancement in the coming years, specifically the broadband section where occupant telco, Beltelecom has been relocating the PSTN system to the fiber based system. This is going to upgrade position for this company to almost certainly offer a wide scope of the packaged services. Indeed, in spite of this sector getting improved, it is yet to result in privatization of occupant notwithstanding government being squeezed to feel free to offer state ventures in the bid to go on and pay off the overall debts.

The revenue growth for the Beltelecom has been expected to originate from FttP sector, where majority of this company’s capex has been directed. This mobile sector has been able to experience some growth, with the rise in the mobile penetration attributed to the effective competition that has helped in driving down the consumer prices. The operators have focused on developing the mobile broadband as well as the data services with the view to capitalize on such services so as to grow the ARPU.