Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: August 2009
Product Code: R464-1411Description The market for fixed-line telecommunications was liberalised on 1 January 1998 in accordance with the EU directive. Since that time, the incumbent operator, Belgacom, has lost market share to alternative operators.
Table of Contents - Overview
- Fixed market overview
- Broadband market
- Mobile market overview
- National regulatory authority
- Competition authority
- Key legislation and regulation
- Acts
- Decrees
- Current status of market analysis
- Mobile licensing
- 3G licences
- Fourth 3G licence
- MVNOs
- Retail regulation
- The retail market
- Wholesale fixed regulation
- Services subject to regulation
- Number portability
- Narrowband voice interconnection
- Cost model for RIO
- Procedure for setting and reviewing charges
- Format of charges
- Narrowband flat-rate interconnection
- Flat-rate Internet access call origination (FRIACO)
- Wholesale access
- Wholesale line rental
- Local loop unbundling (LLU)
- Wholesale broadband services
- Fibre deployment
- Wholesale mobile regulation
- Services subject to regulation
- Mobile-to-fixed termination charges
- Mobile termination charges
- Mobile number portability
- Competition cases
- Competition Council fines Proximus for abuse of a dominant position
- Universal service
- Universal service obligation (USO)
- Appendix
- The EC’s market definitions
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Belgium: mobile market information (4Q08)
- Table 2: Frequencies allocated in the 900MHz band
- Table 3: Fixed sector: services subject to regulation
- Table 4: Mobile sector: services subject to regulation
- Table 5: MTRs for SMP operators (€ cents per minute)
- Table 6: The EC’s definition of seven markets to be analysed
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Fixed-line subscribers in Belgium
- Figure 2: Broadband subscribers in Belgium
- Figure 3: Mobile subscribers in Belgium
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