Belarusian provider deleted its channel after Flagshtok publication
The internal Telegram channel of the Belarusian provider beCloud, which posted information regarding the operation or outages of transmission equipment, has been deleted. This occurred following a publication by Flagshtok about the failure of cell towers in southern Belarus near the border with Ukraine, the outlet reports .
In its report, Flagshtok cited information from this Telegram channel. It is now no longer available.
Earlier, Flagshtok reported that A1 and MTS base stations had stopped working in southern Belarus near the border with Ukraine.
The "beCloud monitoring" channel was an open but little-known resource of the operating company. It had no more than 40 subscribers and was entirely dedicated to the network's base stations: their shutdowns, repairs, or the installation of new ones.
The beCloud company (Joint Limited Liability Company "Belarusian Cloud Technologies") is closely linked to the state: 51% of the shares belong to a state entity—the National Traffic Exchange Center, and 49% to a Russian investor.
The company is one of the leading providers of cloud solutions, IT infrastructure, and hosting in Belarus. The provider renders services based on the backbone network for the Unified Data Transmission Network and the Republican Data Processing Center. Founded in 2012, the company became the country's first infrastructure operator.
Among other things, beCloud is engaged in the design, construction, equipping, and operation of the backbone data network for the Unified Republican Data Transmission Network (URDTN), the unified LTE network (4G high-speed mobile internet technology), as well as the development and testing of 5G high-speed mobile internet.