BelCel Joint Venture was founded by the Belarusian telecom enterprises and British company Cable &Wireless plc. The company’s name is a Russian version of the English abbreviation BELCEL that means “Belarusian Cellular”. Company’s engineers started to maintain the system before its commercial operation in May 1993. Commercial operation of the network was launched on May 7, 1993. Belarusian government bodies, banks, embassies and key commercial companies were the first subscribers of BelCel JV. Within several months cellular communications became available in Brest and Gomel, the deployment was going on by covering all regional centers.

Nowadays BelCel network covers more than 70% of the national territory and continues to extend. Our sales and service centers are open in Minsk, Brest, Gomel, Bitebsk and Grodno.