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Until 2005-2006 broadband access ( mostly using ADSL ) was available only in a few major cities in Belarus.

In Minsk there were a dozen privately owned ISP's and in some larger cities Beltelecom's broadband was available.

Outside these cities the only options for Internet access were dial-up from Beltelecom or GPRS / cdma2000 from mobile operators.

In 2006 Beltelecom introduced a new trademark, Byfly, for its ADSL access.

As of 2008 Byfly was available in all administrative centres of Belarus.

Other ISPs are expanding their broadband networks beyond Minsk as well.

On July 2011, Beltelecom announced a plan to raise the capacity of its Internet gateway to Russia by 20Gbit / s by the end of 2011 and announced a tender to provide the service.