Beltelecom to provide free phone calls to Great Patriotic War veterans for Victory Day

April 28, Minsk /Elena Doroshenko - BELTA/. RUE "Beltelecom" will provide participants of the Great Patriotic War with free long-distance and international phone calls for Victory Day. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press service of the national telecommunications operator. The promotion will start at midnight on May 7 and will last until 24:00 on May 9. Free long-distance calls within the republic will be provided automatically or with the help of an operator from home phones of WWII participants. To order free long-distance calls within the republic with the help of an operator in all cities and regions of Belarus, you can call 8-18 (for subscribers in Brest and Brest region, Vitebsk and Vitebsk region, Minsk and Minsk region, Mogilev and Mogilev region) and 8-13 (for subscribers in Gomel and Gomel region, Grodno and Grodno region). The promotion does not apply to local calls, calls to mobile subscribers, Internet access, and paid information services. Free international calls will be provided to veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War using service phone cards with a nominal value of 16 thousand tariff units. Beltelecom sales offices will carry out targeted distribution of service phone cards to all participants of the Great Patriotic War. The following categories of owners will be able to use free calls from home phones: Heroes of the Soviet Union, Full Cavaliers of the Order of Glory, disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War, participants of the Great Patriotic War, persons who took part in special formations in demining territories and facilities after liberation from German occupation in 1943-1945, persons awarded with USSR orders and/or medals for selfless work and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic War, persons who worked at air defense facilities, local air defense, construction of defensive structures, naval bases, airfields and other military facilities within the rear boundaries of active fronts, on front-line sections of railways and roads, members of transport fleet crews interned at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in ports of other states, persons who worked at enterprises, institutions and organizations of the city of Leningrad during the blockade and awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", and persons awarded the badge "Resident of Blockaded Leningrad", disabled persons since childhood due to injury, concussion, mutilation related to combat operations during the Great Patriotic War or the consequences of military operations, who have reached the age of 60 (men) and 55 (women). Additional information about the promotion can be obtained by calling 153, 130, and 176 (for organizing free international calls during the promotion period). "Beltelecom" is the national telecommunications operator of Belarus. The enterprise has built an extensive telecommunications network, a network of backbone fiber-optic communication lines with access to neighboring countries. "Beltelecom" develops qualitatively new telecommunication services, ensures the transmission of long-distance and international traffic, and the operation of the terrestrial network of television and radio broadcasting channels. The company's subscriber base includes more than 4 million fixed-line telephone subscribers, more than 700 thousand broadband Internet subscribers, and more than 200 thousand digital television subscribers.-0-