velcom held a press conference devoted to the launch of the 3G|3G+ in Minsk and Gomel

On March 17, 2010 velcom held the press conference where the commercial launch of the 3G in Minsk and Gomel was announced. New tariff plans were also presented. The event took place in Alexander-Passage Business Centre. All interested people could watch the event in an on-line mode. Statistics showed that 2,442 people visited velcom site to watch the press conference.

Welcoming of visitors and participants of the press conference.

Michael Batranets, Director General of FE "VELCOM", is welcoming the visitors of the press conference.

Helmut Duhs, CEO of SB Telecom in charge of FE “VELCOM”, is announcing the commercial launch of the UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ network.

In the course of the press conference there was a continuous demonstration of speed of data transmission in a real time mode, which reached 20.6 MB/s.

Martin Lippautz, Deputy Director-General on commercial issues, presented new tariff plans recommended to use the 3G.

Robert Saab, Deputy Director General on technical issues, is telling about the stages of extension of the 3G network and naming company’s plans on network development in the territory of Belarus.

Robert Dashian, Deputy Director General for Sales and Subscriber Service of FE “VELCOM”, is demonstrating a video call of a journalist from Gomel.

velcom Top Management is answering the questions of journalists from Minsk and Gomel.