According to the Minister of communications and Informatization of Belarus Sergei Popkov, currently considered charging with services like Skype and Viber. They use carrier data infrastructures, however, any royalties for it is not produced.

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According to the Minister of communications and Informatization of Belarus Sergei Popkov, currently considered charging with services like Skype and Viber. They use carrier data infrastructures, however, any royalties for it is not produced.

As noted by Sergei Popkov, 1% of users use about 50% of the total "width" Internet gateway. But his channel "score" tanks, movies, Skype and users downloading various, including pirated content. In addition, the popularity of various kinds of messengers leads to reduced profit operators of 10-15%. The Minister stressed that the Agency "will work in this direction."

According to official data, external Internet gateway Belarus is 770 Gbps per resident of the country an average of 94.8 kbit/S. In the United States, for comparison, 64 kbit/S. the share of domestic traffic accounted for 10% of the data, however, the start of the Republican center for the exchange of data should change things.