page_title: Telecommunications in Belarus
section_title: Telephone system
hierarchical_section_title: Telecommunications in Belarus / Telephone system
caption_attribution_description: English: Telephone booths in Minsk, Belarus on 23rd September in 2007.
context_page_description: Telecommunications in Belarus involves the availability and use of electronic devices and services, such as the telephone, television, radio or computer, for the purpose of communication.
context_section_description: Telephone lines in use: 3,9741 million (2011).
  Mobile/cellular: 11,559,473 subscribers (Q1 2019).
  The phone calling code for Belarus is +375.
  The Ministry of Telecommunications controls all telecommunications originating within the country through its carrier unitary enterprise, Beltelecom.
   
  Minsk has a digital metropolitan network; waiting lists for telephones are long; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be underserved; intercity - Belarus has developed a fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities (1998). Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries' systems.
caption: Telephone booths in Minsk, September 2007
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