Belgium - Key Statistics, Telecom Market & Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Belgium’s medium sized telecom market benefits from comprehensive DSL and cable networks, a strong cable TV sector, and effective competition in the broadband and mobile telephone markets. Broadband penetration lags behind the leading European nations but new regulatory measures to promote wholesale and bitstream access should address lingering issues. This report provides data and analysis on key aspects of the Belgian telecom market in 2009. It assesses the latest statistics on fixed network services and also reviews key regulatory issues, noting the status of interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability and carrier preselection. The telecom infrastructure and major fixed network operators and are also profiled.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Overview of Belgium’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 History
  - 4.1.1 EU regulatory framework
- 4.2 Regulatory authority
  - 4.2.1 Belgian Institute for Posts and Telecommunications (BIPT)
- 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Belgium
  - 4.3.1 Privatisation of Belgacom
  - 4.3.2 Interconnect
  - 4.3.3 Access
  - 4.3.4 Number Portability (NP)
  - 4.3.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
  - 4.3.6 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
5. Fixed network operators in Belgium
- 5.1 Overview of operators
- 5.2 Belgacom
- 5.3 COLT Telecom NV
- 5.4 Mobistar
- 5.5 Scarlet (formerly KPN Belgium)
- 5.6 Tele2 Belgium
- 5.7 Telenet
- 5.8 Versatel Telecom
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
- 6.2 Next Generation Network (NGN)
- 6.3 International infrastructure
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics – 2009
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2007
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – January 2009
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – March 2009
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – January 2009
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – June 2009
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Telecom market investment by sector – 2006 - 2007
Table 9 – Telecom market revenue by sector – 2006 - 2007
Table 10 – Market share of households by sector (historic) – 2002 - 2005
Table 11 – LLU, shared access price - connection, monthly rental – 2005 - 2008
Table 12 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2005 - 2009
Table 13 – Wholesale access lines – 2008 - 2009
Table 14 – Analogue access channels - PSTN, ISDN-2, ISDN-30 (historic) – 2000 - 2005
Table 15 – BRUO and BROBA monthly access fees – 2008
Table 16 – Fixed numbers ported (regulator data) – 2000 - 2005
Table 17 – Cumulative fixed number portings (EC data) – 2005 - 2008
Table 18 – Carrier preselect numbers and annual change – 2000 - 2005
Table 19 – Belgacom residential access channels – 2007 - 2008
Table 20 – Belgacom subscribers by sector – 2008
Table 21 – Belgacom residential traffic – 2007 - 2008
Table 22 – Belgacom financial data – 2003 - 2008
Table 23 – Belgacom revenue by sector – 2004 - 2008
Table 24 – Belgacom revenue by operating division and annual change – 2007 - 2008
Table 25 – Belgacom fixed-line services revenue by sector – 2007 - 2008
Table 26 – Belgacom revenue share by sector – 2005 - 2007
Table 27 – Belgacom monthly ARPU by sector – 2005 - 2008
Table 28 – Mobistar financial data – 2005 - 2009
Table 29 – Mobistar financial data by sector – 2005 - 2009
Table 30 – Telenet financial data – 2005 - 2009
Table 31 – Telenet revenue by sector – 2003 - 2009
Table 32 – Telenet subscribers by sector – 2005 - 2009
Table 33 – Telenet subscriber monthly ARPU – 2005 - 2009
Table 34 – Versatel financial data (historic) – 2005 - 2007
Table 35 – Versatel subscriber statistics (historic) – 2005 - 2007
Table 36 – Versatel subscribers by type (historic) – 2006 - 2007
Table 37 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2009