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The deadline for replying is 22 Januar 2016, included. The contact person is Gino Ducheyne (tel. 02 226 88 18). Address: consultation.sg@bipt.be. Answers shall be sent by e-mail exclusively to the address indicated. The subject of the e-mail shall at least mention the reference " Consult-2015-G3 ". The document should clearly state what is confidential.

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 about breaches or infractions 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 2015.

BIPT publishes for the fourth time a benchmark study of the prices for telecom products in Belgium and our neighbouring countries (the Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxemburg and the United Kingdom).

The Act of 21 March 1991 on the reform of certain economic public companies puts BIPT in charge of the publication of a yearly report on the respect of the obligations imposed on postal licence holders. Therefore, BIPT verified the compliance of TBC-Post with its licence conditions after two years of activity. Following this verification, BIPT noted a number of shortcomings which TBC-Post immediately rectified. This verification thus showed that TBC-Post fulfils the obligations it is expected to after two years of activity.

The CRC (Conference of Regulators of the electronic communications sector) has reviewed the tariffs Brutélé, Nethys (VOO) and Telenet are allowed to charge operators wishing to provide television and broadband services through cable. The CRC decisions will be notified to the European Commission, which has one month to verify whether the decisions are in conformity with the European legislation. After this consultation the CRC will definitely set the reviewed tariffs.

Brussels, 10 December 2015 – BIPT publishes the economic key figures relating to the postal sector in the year 2014. Despite decreasing letter post volumes in 2014 total revenue in the postal sector increased, stimulated by the parcel and express mail markets, and investments continued to grow considerably. Prices of postage stamps went up and thanks to growing e-commerce the average number of delivered parcels increased.

Brussels, 9 December 2015 The CRC (Conference of Regulators of the electronic communications sector) has reviewed the tariffs Brutélé, Nethys (VOO) and Telenet are allowed to charge operators wishing to provide television and broadband services through cable. The CRC decisions will be notified to the European Commission, which has one month to verify whether the decisions are in conformity with the European legislation. After this consultation the CRC will definitely set the reviewed tariffs.

Consultation organised by the BIPT Council of 7 December 2015 at the request of Minister De Croo on the draft bill amending article 127 of the Act of 13 June 2005 on electronic communications

Margin squeezes (also called "price squeezes") may occur if a vertically integrated operator sets a margin between the price of its wholesale services and the price of its retail services that is insufficient to cover the costs specific to the retail market. In 2007 BIPT adopted guidelines concerning the assessment of margin squeezes. BIPT wishes to adopt new guidelines in the light of the developments that have since occurred in this field. This consultation relates to the following documents: the new guidelines: two spreadsheets in Excel format developed to detect any margin squeezes practiced by SMP operators. The versions in question are the spreadsheets for retail services provided to private customers and small business customers based on BROBA or WBA (shared VLAN) for VDSL2. A manual is also available. Deadline: 4 February 2016Responses are to be sent to: consultation.sg@bipt.be   Ref.: consult-2015-F5Contact person: Tom Van Landeghem, Advisor (02 226 89 40)

Decision of the BIPT Council of 19 November 2015 regarding the review of the Decision of 10 December 2013 (BRxx 2012 Update)