Belgium - Broadband Market - Overview, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

Despite Belgium enjoying effective competition between the DSL and cable platforms, the country’s broadband penetration lags behind the European leaders. Nevertheless, network investments from Telenet, deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology, and from Belgacom with its hybrid Fibre/VDSL network, have broadened the availability of faster services, and with them the popularity of triple play offerings. This report profiles Belgium’s fixed and wireless broadband markets in 2009. It provides broadband forecasts to 2018 and also assesses developments in related technologies such as FWA, WLAN and WiFi.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Overview
  
  • 2.1 Broadband statistics
    
    • 2.1.1 Market share
      
• 3. Cable modems
  
  • 3.1 Telenet
    
  • 3.2 UPC Broadband
    
  • 3.3 Interkabel
    
• 4. Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
  
  • 4.1 Belgacom’s DSL services
    
    • 4.1.1 Wholesale
      
    • 4.1.2 Naked DSL
      
  • 4.2 Versatel/Tele2 Belgium
    
  • 4.3 Mobistar
    
• 5. Other DSL developments
  
  • 5.1 SDSL
    
  • 5.2 VDSL
    
  • 5.3 G.SHDSL
    
• 6. Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) networks
  
  • 6.1 Regulating fibre
    
  • 6.2 Digital Metropolis Antwerp
    
• 7. Broadband Powerline (BPL)
  
• 8. Wireless broadband
  
  • 8.1 Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)
    
  • 8.2 WLAN/WiFi
    
  • 8.3 WiMAX
    
• 9. Mobile broadband
  
• 10. Forecasts
  
  • 10.1 Forecast – broadband subscribers to 2018
    
    • 10.1.1 Scenario 1 – higher broadband subscriber growth
      
    • 10.1.2 Scenario 2 – lower broadband subscriber growth
      
  • 10.2 Notes on scenario forecasts
    
• 11. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Internet users and penetration rate – 1995 - 2009
• Table 2 – Broadband subscriber by technology and penetration rates – 2000 - 2009
• Table 3 – Broadband market share by sector (historic) – 2002 - 2005
• Table 4 – Broadband subscribers by access type – 2006; 2008 - 2009
• Table 5 – Cable modem subscribers – 2000 - 2009
• Table 6 – Telenet subscribers by sector – 2005 - 2009
• Table 7 – Telenet financial data – 2005 - 2009
• Table 8 – UPC Belgium subscriber data (historic) – 2006
• Table 9 – ADSL subscribers – 2000 - 2009
• Table 10 – Belgacom ADSL subscribers – 2000 - 2008
• Table 11 – Bitstream and wholesale subscribers – 2002 - 2009
• Table 12 – WLL broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2009
• Table 13 – Forecast broadband subscribers – higher market growth scenario – 2007 - 2012; 2018
• Table 14 – Forecast broadband subscribers – lower market growth scenario – 2007 - 2012; 2018

• Exhibit 1 – Key ADSL service providers – 2009
• Exhibit 2 – WiMAX spectrum licenses – 2001 - 2005