In Belarus, there are no plans to introduce compulsory state registration of electronic mailboxes. It was reported in Ministry of Communications and Informatization. "As a result of negotiations carried out with the interested bodies of state administration, it was decided to abolish the compulsory registration of mailboxes", told in the ministry.
In the ministry added that made decision has to do with both legal entities and individuals, BelTA informs. Meanwhile, state registration of information networks, systems and resources is provided by the decree of the president of Belarus № 60 «On measures to improve the use of the national segment of Internet» on February 1 of this year.
As Telegraf previously reported, according to the decree, all providers until July 1 must transfer their users in Belarusian data centers and register them in Belarus State Telecommunications Inspection (BelSTI). Also, it was proposed that all e-mail accounts hosted on servers in Belarus would be subjected to registration.
In this case, as experts noted, two million mailboxes would have passed the state registration. In addition, the experts said that 50 thousand of web-sites were still to undergo the state registration. It is not possible to register them all before July 1, according to specialists.
In its turn, BelSTI decided not to charge the owners of web-sites when registering them. Originally, it was planned that for sites registration it would be necessary to pay 16.8 thousand rubles (or 5.5 U.S. dollars). Also in BelSTI told that the Intelligence Analysis Center (OAC) under the president of Belarus had restricted the data on sites registration, refusing to provide information about how many sites had already been registered.
