This is very cranky operator, the strangest one I've ever seen in the European exUSSR. You are absolutely right, it looks as if it was really Soviet, and it's not any strange. Belorussian state owned companies keep working as they did 20 years ago, keeping the same traditions etc. Their Льготный (privileged) tariff is supposed to be a sort of social aid, but it looks strange anyway. Look, it just has lower SIM activation fee and cheaper calls to BeST numbers (30 minutes a month only). It has no other advantages, but it has no SMS service (just incoming SMS are available), no call waiting and similar services, no outgoing international calls ( :wacko: ) etc. A subscriber of Льготный tariff will have to prove his priviledged status every year to be able to keep using this tariff. Also, their Base tariff seems to have only national SMS exchange (look at the remark "Исходящее SMS абонентам других сетей сотовой связи РБ", it means "Outgoing SMS to other Belorussian networks subscribers, foreign SMS are not noticed at all). So, this is how their government does imagine an ideal cellular operator, I guess.
