Providers Has United to Combat Beltelecom

21.05.2010 11:06
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Leaders of several major commercial providers wrote a collective address to the Government, Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Economy about Beltelecom monopoly. According to providers' address, if the situation does not change, the telecommunications industry will receive a trillion rubles of investment less and lose 20 thousand jobs in six months.

The main claim of Internet services providers is its high cost for private providers, Belarusian News inform. The companies’ heads, who signed address, note that Beltelecom reduces the cost of Internet access only for ultimate consumers and establish barrage arrangements for providers.

According to the data given in the document, for the last two years the cost of internet access for Beltelecom’s subscribers has decreased by 10-13 times and now it’s equal to 100 thousand rubles at access speed of 1 Mbps. At the same time, for providers, during this period the cost has decreased only by three times — to 1.13 million rubles, what is 11 more than for subscribers of the national telecommunication operator.

«The difference in cost, self-set by Beltelecom for subscribers and telecommunications operators, do not allow the players on the telecommunications market, competing with Beltelecom, to create their own product’s offers effectively, what is a barrier to reduce the cost of Internet access on the market in general», the document reads.

The cost’s reduction of the access to the Internet to Beltelecom’s level, being made by commercial providers now, will cause the future unprofitability of this business and their withdrawal from the market, managers of commercial operators say.

According to private providers, the situation may be rectified by the change of mechanism of charging rent for the use of cable duct and occupied premises for installation of telecommunications equipment, which take a large proportion in the total cost of services.

According to electroname.com ,this letter was signed by Y.Zabelov Antikes, L.Pokryshko  IPTelCom, M. Levdansky Aychyna-Plus, I.Sukach ACS, Y.Bitno  Belinfonet, A.Vasiliev VessoBel, V.Ivashkevich  Solo, A.Khmelevsky  Telcom Media, A.Kolb Network Systems.

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