An unnamed citizen sent an enquiry to the Ministry of Trade to check the company's life:) outdoor advertising, where the mobile operator calls its 3G-network the largest one in Belarus. Office specialists found out that life:) is not a leader in the percentage of 3G signal radio coverage of the country, and demanded to eliminate the violations in the advertisement.
The audit found that in the process of matching models in Minsk City BeST had provided a letter from the Ministry, confirming that life:) had established the country’s largest number of base stations to support 3G, Onliner.by transmits.
However, specialists of the Ministry of Trade has found out that network is a collection of cells with hundreds of base stations. A cell is a basic element of a mobile communication system, defined by radio coverage area, which is provided by a single antenna. It is right in this definition that Ministry of Commerce found a contradiction with the statement of life:), since the value of the network is calculated not only based on the number of base stations, but the radio coverage percent as well.
A leading company is not called by the Ministry of Trade.
