Phone Networks in Belgium |
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Latest Telecoms News from Belgium |
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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....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....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....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....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....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....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....Belgacom ICS Certified as GSMA Compliant Roaming Hub With the Open Connectivity (OC) Initiative, the GSMA is looking for new ways to set up Interconnection and Roaming relationships between mobile operators through a hub as an alternative to implementing one-to-one roaming relationships across the world's GSM networks....Belgium Regulator Not to Automatically Extend GSM License Terms Belgium's telecoms regulator, BIPT and Government Minister van Quickenborne have declined to automatically renew the GSM licenses for two of the country's mobile operators, Proximus and Mobistar....Belgium's government has outlined plans to shake up the telecoms regulatory regime in the country - as well as awarding new telecoms licenses.... |