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Latest Telecoms News from Belgium
Mobistar and KPN Group Belgium collaborate to expand network infrastructure
Two Belgium mobile networks, Mobistar and KPN Group (BASE) have announced a collaboration agreement to jointly expand their mobile telecommunication networks....
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Belgium's Base to Launch HSPA By Year-End
Belgium's Base, a subsidiary of the KPN Group, has announced that it intends to introduce HSPA services in the Belgian market by the end of 2009....
Telenet selects Alcatel-Lucent as network integrator
Telenet, a provider of media and telecommunications services in Flanders, selected Alcatel-Lucent as overall network integrator and has now announced a 7-year frame agreement with Alcatel-Lucent....
Related Tags: telenet, alcatel-lucent, mvno
MTN Merges International Carrier Business with Belgian Partner
South Africa's MTN is to merge its international carrier business into Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS) and named the merged firm the official international gateway for carrier services of MTN globally....
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Belgian Operator Fined for Market Abuses
Belgium's Competition Council has fined the mobile network operator, Proximus a total of US$92.6 million for allegedly abusing its dominant market position....
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Mobistar Profits Up Despite Price Pressures
Belgium based Mobistar has reported a slight rise in first-quarter revenues of 2.5% to reach US$483.8 million - although its customer base rose by 6.4% over the same period....
Related Tags: mobistar, smartphones, eu, roaming, sms, smartphone, 3g, tim, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rates
EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey....
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European Incumbent Telecom Operators at Risk From Cable Broadband Upgrades
Fitch Ratings says in a report published today, that a number of European incumbent landline telecom operators risk increasing disadvantage given a failure to respond sufficiently to the risk posed by the cable operators' broadband investments and their own resistance to spending on fibre....
Related Tags: sim, eu, fitch-ratings, tim, ovi, verizon, landline, verizon-communications, bt, virgin-media, fitch
Alcatel-Lucent Wins Belgium Network Management Contract
Alcatel-Lucent has announces that it is to takeover the end-to-end responsibility for all network operations and network rollout for BASE's Belgium network, comprising approximately 3,000 sites....
Related Tags: eu, alcatel-lucent, iden, kpn
Belgacom Takes 40% in Mobile Payments Vendor, Tunz
Belgacom has announced that it is buying a stake of 40% in Tunz, a specialist in mobile payments, which also holds a European e-money license....
Related Tags: eu, mobile-payments, belgacom