Belarus report (MTS / МТС)

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Originally Posted by NFH

In my experience, MTS's coverage is better than Velcom's. I arrived in Belarus by coach from Vilnius and therefore couldn't buy a SIM card until arriving in Minsk. Using my UK contract SIM card from the border to Minsk, my iPhone naturally favoured MTS because it had a stronger signal. Even when I manually switched to Velcom, it soon switched back to MTS.

that's usually not because of better network but it mainly depends on agreements between the 2 operators. Probably (surely) your UK operator has a cheaper agreement with MTS.

I live by the border between Italy and Slovenia. Wind and Vodafone always prefer to roam on SiMobil (Vodafone Slovenia) even when Mobitel has better signal.

AFAIK in Belarus Velcom has the best network, followed by MTS and Life. But in main towns/roads they should all be similar.