Belarus ICT Week: 12 October 2026–18 October 2026

Belarus' IT-Akademgrad forum in Minsk drew over 300 specialists to discuss artificial intelligence, where the Ministry of Communications and Informatization said it had begun building a 'national AI contour' based on adapted open-source models. Telecom regulator BelGIE's third-quarter ratings put A1 and MTS atop Belarus' mobile network quality rankings, while beCloud extended 5G coverage to Grodno. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget barred Belarusian residents from trading, and Ukraine sanctioned a Belarusian crypto platform. A Belarusian national was among suspects detained over a hack of Russia's Dodo Pizza chain.

Posted on: 19 October 2026 | 7:00 am

Belarus in ITU Statistics for 2012

ITU (International Telecommunication Union) published some new and corrected statistical data for the year of 2012 about Belarus.

Posted on: 10 September 2013 | 7:00 am

gemiusAudience Ranks Top 20 Belarusian Web Properties for July 2013

Posted on: 25 August 2013 | 7:00 am

gemiusAudience Ranks Top 20 Belarusian Web Properties for June 2013

Posted on: 25 July 2013 | 7:00 am

Internet media market in Belarus keeps on growing

Annually media agency ZenithOptimedia Belarus estimates the online advertising market of the Republic of Belarus. The major Internet sales house leaders and experts were brought together on the 24th of January to analyze the results of 2012.

Posted on: 7 February 2013 | 6:00 am

Belarusian cell phone operator incomes have grown in the 3d quarter

Each one of the three largest Belarusian cell phone operators links this to the increase of the number of Internet users and development of communications technologies.

Posted on: 2 December 2012 | 6:00 am

Life:) lost 800 thousand users since the start of the year

The number of subscribers of Belarusian cell provider Life:) decreased by 800 000 in January-September 2012.

Posted on: 30 October 2012 | 7:00 am

MTS starts lessons of internet-literacy for Belarusian school students

MTS has started an education project �Children in the Internet�, and conducted the first part of the project � �A lesson of safe and useful Internet�.

Posted on: 16 October 2012 | 7:00 am

Belarus has blocked access to a Change.org

According to TUT.BY Belarusian authorities has blocked access to the site Change.org

Posted on: 14 August 2012 | 7:00 am

Life:) has lost 600 thousands users for the half of a year

Belarusian cell phone services provider Life:) has lost 600 thousands users during the first half of 2012.

Posted on: 30 July 2012 | 7:00 am

Beltelecom will have 2mln internet services subscribers by September 2012

On June 27, 2012, Sergei Popkov Beltelecom Director General said, that national telecommunications operator Beltelecom will soon have more than 1.4 million broadband subscribers

Posted on: 19 July 2012 | 7:00 am

Belarusian authorities restrict access to 80 websites

According to Belarusian state news agency BELTA, 80 websites are listed as restricted access resources.

Posted on: 11 July 2012 | 7:00 am

Term of transition to e-services in Belarus

According to plan approved by the Council of Ministers (resolution #509 of May 31st 2012), Governmental bodies and organisations are obligide to provide of e-services via the single portal of e-services before the January 1, 2012 in by a governmental.

Posted on: 6 June 2012 | 7:00 am

75 PC per 100 households in Minsk

According to Belarusian Central statistical office In 2011, there were 75 personal computers per 100 households in Minsk.

Posted on: 28 January 2012 | 6:00 am

Beltelecom has more than 2 thousand subscribers for GPON technology

Ministry of communications published a report on 7 innovative projects implemented in 2011 within the framework of the state program for 2011-2015.

Posted on: 20 January 2012 | 6:00 am

45 thousand addresses regustered in .by domain name zone in 2011

In 2010, President of Belarus' Operational-Analytical center announced tender technical administrator of the national domain zone .by.

Posted on: 26 December 2011 | 6:00 am

Beltelecom's transit traffic exceeded 100 Gbit/sec

The volume of transit traffic streams organised by Beltelecom at the beginning of December 2011 in the Russian and European direction going through Belarus exceeded 100Gbit/second mark.

Posted on: 22 December 2011 | 6:00 am

Beltelecom doesn't plan to increase Internet traffic costs next year

Andrei Soborov, Beltelecom Deputy General Director, has announced that the company is not going to increase Internet access tariffs the next year.

Posted on: 5 December 2011 | 6:00 am

A draft defining liability for violtation of decree 60 was developed in Belarus

A law project defining administrative resposibilty for providing access to forbidden websites was prepared in Belarus.

Posted on: 27 October 2011 | 7:00 am

Cellphone services are used by 10,5 million Belarusians

Cellphone services are used by 10,5 million subscribers in Belarus, deputy director general of Beltelecom Andrei Soborov said.

Posted on: 14 October 2011 | 7:00 am

Beltelecom's Byfly broadband internet access gets a millionth subscriber

National operator "Beltelecom" had connected a millionth subscriber to the broadband Internet access Byfly services.

Posted on: 30 September 2011 | 7:00 am

35% of Belarusian libraries have Internet access

About 35% of public Belarusian libraries have Internet access. In the rural areas, however, only every fifth library has access to the Internet, deputy minister of culture Tadeush Stryzhetsky said on September 13th.

Posted on: 16 September 2011 | 7:00 am

MTS controlling stock is offered for auction

Belarusian government is putting Belarusian branch of MTS' controlling packet of shares for an auction.

Posted on: 8 September 2011 | 7:00 am

Velcom : 32 thousand more mobile Internet users by the end of the second quarter of 2011

Cell phone services provider Velcom has recently published financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2011.

Posted on: 22 August 2011 | 7:00 am

Number of mobile phones in Belarus tops 10,45 million

Belarusian cell phone userbase was estimated to be around 10,45 million as of the beginning of July 2011, said Pavel Petrulevich, deputy head of telecommunications Department of the Ministry of communications and informatisation.

Posted on: 22 July 2011 | 7:00 am