Editing Telecommunications in Belarus (section)

==Radio and television==
{{See also|List of television stations in Belarus|List of radio stations in Belarus}}
[[File:Belarus-Minsk-Mass Media in Belarus-For Diaspora.jpg|thumb|"Mass Media in Belarus" exhibition. "Mass Media for Diaspora" booth. 5 May 2005]]
* Television broadcast stations: 100 of which 59 are privately owned.<ref name=MassMedia>[http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/mass-media-in-belarus "Mass media in Belarus"], Belarus.by, the Official Website of the Republic of Belarun, July 2016</ref>

Belarus has switched from an analog to digital broadcast television. The process finished in May 2015. Belarus broadcasts according to the [[DVB-T2]] standard with [[MPEG-4]] compression.<ref name=MassMedia/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitaltvnews.net/?p=25918|title = Belarus completes switch to digital television}}</ref>

* Radio broadcast stations: 173 with 24 privately owned, including 30 FM stations.<ref name=MassMedia/>
* Radios: 3.02 million (1997).{{update after|2013|12|28}}