"Beltelecom" to provide free phone calls to Great Patriotic War veterans on Victory Day
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28 April, Minsk /Elena Doroshenko - BELTA/. RUE "Beltelecom" will provide free long-distance and international telephone calls to participants of the Great Patriotic War for Victory Day. This was reported to BELTA correspondent by the press service of the national telecommunications operator.
The campaign will start at midnight on May 7 and will last until 24:00 on May 9.
Free long-distance telephone calls within the republic will be provided automatically or with the help of an operator from home phones, which are subscribed to by participants of the Great Patriotic War. To order free telephone calls within the republic with the help of an operator in all cities and regions of Belarus, you can call 8-18 (for subscribers of Brest and Brest region, Vitebsk and Vitebsk region, Minsk and Minsk region, Mogilev and Mogilev region) and 8-13 (for subscribers of Gomel and Gomel region, Grodno and Grodno region). The campaign does not apply to local telephone calls, calls to mobile subscribers, Internet access, and the use of paid information services.
International free telephone calls will be provided to veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War using service telephone cards with a nominal value of 16 thousand tariff units. Beltelecom sales departments will carry out targeted distribution of service telephone 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 as part of special formations in the demining of territories and objects after liberation from German occupation in 1943-1945, persons awarded with orders and (or) medals of the USSR for selfless labor and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic War, persons who worked at facilities of air defense, local air defense, on the 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 crews of transport fleet vessels 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 Defence of Leningrad", and persons awarded the badge "Resident of Blockaded Leningrad", disabled persons from childhood due to injury, concussion, mutilation related to combat operations during the Great Patriotic War or to the consequences of military operations, who have reached the age of 60 (men), 55 (women).
Additional information about the promotion can be obtained by calling 153, 130 and 176 (for organising 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 neighbouring countries. "Beltelecom" develops qualitatively new telecommunication services, ensures the transmission of intercity and international traffic, and the operation of the terrestrial network of television and radio broadcasting channels. The company's subscriber base includes over 4 million fixed-line telephone subscribers, over 700 thousand broadband Internet subscribers, and over 200 thousand digital television subscribers.-0-
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