{"id":567450,"date":"2026-08-12T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=567450"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:17:19","slug":"fiber-optic-internet-reached-50-belarusian-settlements-in-first-half-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/fiber-optic-internet-reached-50-belarusian-settlements-in-first-half-of-year","title":{"rendered":"Fiber-Optic Internet Reached 50 Belarusian Settlements In First Half Of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Communications and Informatization has summed up the performance of the telecommunications sector in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Significant investment is being made in the construction of fiber-optic communication lines to provide people with access to modern services at high speeds. In the first half of the year, fiber-optic lines were extended to 50 settlements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a result of these measures, the number of subscribers connected using GPON technology reached 3.193 million, an increase of 34,300 compared with the beginning of the year. More than 62% of fixed broadband subscribers use internet access at speeds of 100 Mbps or higher&#8221;<\/em>, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that 98.6% of Belarusian territory is currently covered by UMTS cellular networks and 94.6% by LTE networks. Population coverage stands at 99.9% and 99.6%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The penetration rate of wireless broadband services reached 104.1 subscribers per 100 residents in the past quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Communications and Informatization has summed up the performance of the telecommunications sector in the first half of the year. &#8220;Significant investment is being made in the construction of fiber-optic communication lines to provide people with access to modern services at high speeds. In the first half of the year, fiber-optic lines were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":548186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7c48334d81a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Fiber-Optic Internet Reached 50 Belarusian Settlements In First Half Of Year"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-computers"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}