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BIPT decides to impose an administrative penalty upon Lycamobile because this operator fails to duly cooperate with the Office of the Telecommunications Ombudsman.

Article 126 of the Act of 13 June 2015 on electronic communications, completed by the Royal Decree of 19 September 2013 obliges certain operators to retain identification data, mainly for the benefit of judicial authorities.

Mobile communications are gaining ground compared to fixed communications, so that the number of users calling or using the Internet with mobile equipment from inside their houses is growing steadily. In order to improve mobile indoor coverage, users can themselves take a number of steps. One of those possible measures a user can take, is to install fixed directional aerials outside the house. This decision describes the technical characteristics for those directional aerials.

Consultation on the draft decision of the BIPT Council on radio interfaces B01 (9, 19, 35, 37 and 38), B04-15, B06-24, B07-04, B16-01 and B17 (04 and 05) and the abolition of radio interface B12-05

Communication by the BIPT Council of 27 December 2017 regarding the monitoring of the universal telecommunications service 2016-2017

The Act of 21 March 1991 on the reform of some economic public companies tasks BIPT with the publication of a yearly report of the actions it has undertaken in order to verify that postal service providers abide by their obligations. However, considering the limited impact on the postal market of the infractions possibly recorded during monitoring, BIPT decided to cease systematically monitoring the postal service providers and to proceed to monitoring only when a complaint has been submitted. BIPT believes it would be disproportionate to commit resources to monitoring while it has not received any breach notification and consumers do not complain about the situation. Given that BIPT did not receive any complaint in 2016 about omissions or infringements of Article 148bis, §2, of the Act of 21 March 1991 on the reform of some economic public companies, BIPT did not carry out any monitoring in 2016.

This draft decision regards the analysis of the market for fixed termination. BIPT submits for consultation its analysis as well as the appropriate remedies.Addition of IP NEXIA NV as an SMP operatorThe fixed numbers of operator IP NEXIA have recently been activated, which means that this operator now provides call termination services at a fixed location. Therefore, BIPT considers that this operator has significant market power in the same way as the other operators providing call termination services at a fixed location.The draft decision has been amended so that IP NEXIA is included in the list of operators with a significant market power in the fixed termination market (see paragraphs 113.2.3, 204, 263 692.2). In addition we remind you that the draft decision lays down in paragraph 263 that “If, by the end of this study, new players provide fixed call termination services over their fixed public telephone networks, BIPT will examine their position in their respective market and will take, where applicable, any appropriate decision in regard to them.”

BIPT defines new guidelines specifying the principles according to which it assesses the effects of price squeeze.

This market analysis relates to the retail market for fixed telephony access on the one hand and to the wholesale market for call origination on the other. This draft decision proposes a deregulation of both markets and thereby follows the European Commission, which had not included those markets in its most recent list of relevant markets (2014 recommendation) anymore.