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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.

The 694-790 MHz band will no longer be available for wireless microphones. A possible auction of this band will probably take place during the period from the end of 2018 until the beginning of 2019. At this moment BIPT assumes that this band will no longer be available for the use by wireless microphones as of the end of 2019. BIPT wishes to anticipate the future clearance of the 700 MHz band today. For a timely informative communication destined to all PMSE users is necessary.

Margin squeeze possibly constitutes a threat to competition on the electronic communications markets, especially as regards broadband Internet access and leased lines. Margin squeeze occurs when a vertically integrated operator with significant market power (SMP) at wholesale level positions his retail prices in such a manner that the margin between the costs of the wholesale input and the retail prices is insufficient to enable a competitor to offer similar retail products. In order to address the competition issues, the CRC and BIPT prohibited the SMP operators to apply a margin squeeze in the framework of several decisions. In order to materialise the prohibition to apply a margin squeeze, as can be imposed based on a market analysis procedure, BIPT publishes this document containing its guidelines for the implementation of margin squeeze tests. These clarify the principles according to which BIPT shall examine a margin squeeze. Earlier guidelines regarding the assessment of price squeeze laid down in its decision of 11 July 2007, shall be abolished by BIPT.

This decision aims to enable BIPT to publish a modified and updated price squeeze test (also called margin squeeze test) allowing it to perform tests based on the market analyses prohibiting price squeeze. In order to achieve said goal the BIPT Council Decision of 11 July 2007 on the guidelines regarding the evaluation of price squeeze needs to be abolished.

BIPT publishes a cartography of Belgium’s postal points.

The indicators present in this observatory aim at providing a representation of the market structure intended for all the stakeholders of the postal sector (senders, addressees, operators, various intermediate players, etc.). These indicators allow approaching the market on supply side, the evolution of the universal service provider activity and its competitors, as well as the results of the postal activity in Belgium in terms of quality of service and innovation for the users of these services.

This decision replaces the BIPT Council Decision of 1 April 2014 laying down the circumstances in which the operators have to notify BIPT of a security incident and the terms and conditions of this notification. This decision specifies which security incidents have to be reported as well as the practical manner in which to report them

In this Communication BIPT states which tariff method for calls to 078 numbers of B2C customer services it expects from the operators, considering the ruling of the European Court of Justice of 2 March 2017 in the Comtech case