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Opinion of the European Commission of 22 July 2015 (BROBA WBA transparency)

Economic situation of the telecoms sector 2014

Brussels, 17 July 2015 - Today BIPT has published the annual statistics relating to the telecoms sector. The 2014 general market context shows that turnover diminished, but that operators kept on investing considerably. For the first time SMS traffic shows a decline, while the use of mobile Internet is growing significantly. Belgium stays at the top of the EU ranking for the development of high-speed fixed broadband over 30 Mbps. The Belgian digital TV market continues to grow.

This decision aims at imposing upon operators providing fixed and mobile electronic communications services, the obligation to publish certain quality indicators on their own websites. BIPT has selected nine quality indicators that seem especially useful and relevant in its opinion. The indicators aimed at regard the following domains: installation time, failures and malfunctions, customer services performance, complaints on invoices, mobile networks coverage degree. Based on the indicators measured by the operators, BIPT will publish a quality barometer online enabling an easy comparison between the different aspects regarding quality. The barometer will come online on 1 July 2016.

Mobile network monitoring report

Today BIPT published on its website an 'Atlas' of the coverage provided by the mobile telecom operators in Belgium. The data of the telecom operators have been collected and, following verifications or "scanning" in the field, assembled in a public and free "Atlas". As of 1 January 2016 telecom operators are obliged to provide BIPT with further data that regard the quality, such as the response time of the customer services, which BIPT will also publish on its website as a "quality barometer".

Deadline for reply: until 15 September 2015. E-mail your reactions to: consultation.sg@bipt.be (Subject: "consult-2015-C5"). Contact person: Maarten Josson, adviser (02 226 89 47).

We hereby invite you to react to the proposal formulated by Proximus on 12 June 2015 regarding the termination rates for calls initiated in countries that are not part of the European Union within the framework of the reference offers BRIO and BMRIO. Moreover Proximus mentions that: “Tariff differentiation of incoming calls will be based on the 'A-number' principle. It means that the origin of the call will determine the applied tariffs. The origin is determined via the country code of the caller. In our proposal, the objective is to apply this principle regardless of the (transit) operator.” (free translation) Reactions to the proposal covered by this mail are expected: • by e-mail to consultation.sg@ibpt.be  • by Thursday 30 July 2015 at the latest • Please make sure that the subject mentions at least the reference 'CONSULT-2015-C4 / 15-750' Please get in touch with your contact person at Proximus for any technical question on this proposal. Martin Dorme (+32 2 226 87 06) will gladly answer your potential questions on this consultation.

Bpost is charged with the universal postal service until 31 December 2018, in accordance with Article 144octies, § 1, of the Act of 21 March 1991 on the reform of certain economic public companies. The same provision states that the designation procedure of the universal service provider who will succeed bpost shall end at the latest three years before the end of the previous designation, i.e. before 31 December 2015. The Royal Decree of 19 April 2014 amending the Royal Decree of 11 January 2006 implementing Title IV (Reform of the Postal Authorities) of the Act of 21 March 1991 on the reform of certain economic public companies has introduced, in this Royal Decree of January 2006, a new Title VI laying down the designation procedure of the universal service provider and entrusting BIPT with the practical organisation of this procedure in name and on behalf of the Belgian State. Within this framework, a public consultation regarding the designation of the universal service provider was held from 22 January 2015 to 6 March 2015. BIPT has received 6 contributions. This document contains the summary of the contributions received. This draft summary mentions the name of most of the participants to the consultation. The responses to each of the questions asked have been summarized, the name of the respondent to the question has been made anonymous.

This decision aims at ensuring the coexistence of Infrabel's GSM-R network in the 876.1-879.9/921.1-924.9 MHz frequency bands on the one hand with the public mobile networks in the 880.1-914.9/925.1-959.9 MHz frequency bands on the other hand.