by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | Belgium
The Belgian regulatory authority BIPT has today published a Communication concerning GSM-Gateways (officially dated 4 Aug 2004). This follows a public consultation which was launched on 26 Sep 2003, in which the BIPT proposed to prohibit the use of SIM Gateways by...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | Belgium
The Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT) has published a draft decision containing the calculation of the net cost of Universal Service for the year 2003, yielding an amount just under €46m. This is a sharp reduction from the previously...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | Belgium
The Belgian regulatory authority BIPT has today published a set of documents, constituting a public consultation on terms and conditions (including fees) for limited third party access to the Common Reference Database for Number Portability. The objective of the...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | Belgium
The Belgian Federal government (represented by 3 ministers), has introduced the “Projet de loi relatif aux communications électroniques” / “Wetsontwerp betreffende de elektronische communicatie” in the Federal House of Representatives. This is...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | Belgium
Early this afternoon, the Committee on Infrastructure of the Belgian Federal House of Representatives voted on the draft “Projet de loi relatif aux communications électroniques” / “Wetsontwerp betreffende de elektronische communicatie”. This is...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | Belgium
Following the example of Germany and France in July 2003, Belgium has today recognised the direct effect of Directive 2002/20/EC. The regulatory BIPT issued two “circulaires”, which abolish the individual licensing requirement for operators of public...
