Telephone and mobile communications

Users of smartphones running on the Android operating system in the night and morning of March 23 were faced with unstable software operation.

Actions to cancel roaming between Russia and Belarus may end by April 2. This information was reported by the head of the committee of the parliamentary assembly of the Union State Gennady Davydko.

South Korean company LG may close its own production of smartphones. This information is reported by Bloomberg, citing industry sources.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, said that Twitter would be blocked on Russian territory if his administration did not start a dialogue with the Russian authorities.

The ability to use the Russian search engine by default will be provided from July 1, which search engine will be - will be determined by the Cabinet.

It is possible that in the future Twitter will have to be completely blocked in Russia.

The largest Russian mobile operator MTS announced the launch of the first in Russia user pilot 5G communication network in the 4.9 GHz band in 14 popular locations in Moscow.

The Chinese company ranked third in the world in smartphone shipments after South Korea's «Samsung Electronics» and the US's «Apple» in 2020.

Russian scientists have created a communication system that allows transmitting signals using the effect of reflection from the traces of meteors flying in the Earth's atmosphere.

According to a Russian parliamentarian, Roskomnadzor must use technical means to combat Twitter, after blocking more than a hundred Russian accounts, symmetric measures must be taken.

The head of the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands, Eric Akerbom, claims without evidence that the country's special services allegedly "every day catch hackers from both China and Russia."

Roskomnadzor requires Clubhouse to restore access to the account of the Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov and explain the reasons for the blocking.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to speak in the Clubhouse app, created for voice communication and online conferences.

According to CNN, the social network Instagram has deleted the account of the nephew of the 35th American President John F. Kennedy, environmental activist and lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr., due to false claims about the coronavirus and vaccines against it.

The combination of these factors led to a change in the long-term outlook of the sovereign credit rating of Belarus from stable to negative.