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WACC 2 Peers, gearing, rating

WACC 1 ERP, Rf, Cd by rating

This decision regards the determination of the weighted cost of capital (WACC) that will be used in all tariff decisions taken by the BIPT after its entry into force. The new WACC values for cable and FTTH will be used in the future respective tariff decisions. At the date of entry into force the Council Decision of 26 February 2015 will be lifted on the understanding that the existing tariff decisions will remain unchanged as to the determination of the WACC values in those decisions. The FTR rates have been updated with the new legacy WACC but they have no impact on the existing termination rates, so that the decision of 20 November 2018 remains unchanged.

This decision aims to replace the BIPT Council Decision of 7 December 2018 on the retail market for access to the public telephone network at a fixed location and on the wholesale market for call origination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location, following the annulment of the latter decision by the Brussels Court of Appeal on 12 June 2019.

In Belgium, the Communities are competent for the technical aspects and the contents of the audiovisual media services. However, in the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region, some activities of the media sector cannot be exclusively linked to one of the two Communities (the Flemish Community and the French Community): in that case, the Federal State is competent for these activities.

The Royal Decree of 12 December 2018 determining the applicable obligations relating to the provision of premium rate services.

Applicable regulations - Media

The BIPT is publishing the third annual report on the monitoring of net neutrality in Belgium. Some highlights: This past year the BIPT rolled out important projects regarding the measurement of the quality of experience of the Internet access service. For example, the BIPT launched a crowdsourcing application that allows to measure the quality of experience in the field by way of the users. The BIPT also published on its new data portal www.bipt-data.be the results of drive tests carried out with BIPT measuring vehicles. Zero-rating was mainly monitored in the period from 01 May 2018 to 30 April 2019, generally without there appearing to be a reason for intervention. There were two cases (zero-rating with Epic and during Belgian Red Devils matches during the 2018 WC) that the BIPT thought it was necessary to intervene, both times with regard to Proximus. No cases of blocking services or applications in the network have been found. As for end-users’ choic the mobile data volumes included in the ISP offers have again increased, in order to set off the increasing mobile data traffic.

This BIPT draft decision submits the new monthly wholesale tariffs regarding access to the cable networks for public consultation. The draft decision constitutes an implementing measure accompanying the CRC Decision of 29 June 2018 (with a corrigendum on 11 July 2019), imposed by the CRC and existing in monitoring the prices for the wholesale services that the cable network operators have to provide. How to send the responses to this consultation: per e-mail at consultation.sg@bipt.be (subject: CONSULT-2019-C9). Deadline: until 6 September 2019. Contact person: Martin Dorme (+32 2 226 87 06, martin.dorme@ibpt.be). Answers must be submitted electronically at the address indicated. Please use as cover page the cover form that must be attached to the response. Responses must clearly indicate the confidential information. BIPT also requests that the comments made refer to the paragraphs and/or parts they concern.