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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)

Global reform of the Act of 30 March 1995 and transpositions of the Directives 136/2009/EC and 140/2009/EC.

After the extended shutdown of several nuclear reactors, the risk of electricity shortage (in other words, an imbalance between electricity supply and demand) cannot be ruled out during the next winter.

The present decision aims at adapting the BRUO, BROBA and WBA VDSL2 reference offers of Proximus.

Deadline: 16 December 2015. The contact person is Dirk Appelmans, Adviser (02 226 87 67). Responses are expected electronically only to consultation.sg@ibpt.be (ref. Consult-2015-F4). The document should clearly indicate what is confidential. If the answer contains confidential information, it must be accompanied by a non-confidential version of the response.

Opinion of the European Commission of 16 November 2015 (BRxx 2012 revision)

Brussels, 5 November 2015 BIPT has collected new coverage data from the mobile telecom operators and has incorporated them into the "Atlas" on its website. These show that only 0.61% of the Belgian population does not have 4G coverage yet, from any operator. As for 3G almost all of the Belgian population is covered. The Atlas now also contains new functionalities helping the consumer to verify the coverage in a given municipality.

Brussels, 4 November 2015 BIPT reports on the checks carried out concerning the bpost retail network, the quality of information provided in post offices and Postal Points and accessibility thereof. Generally speaking the provision of information is rather good, although BIPT stresses the importance of staff training so that questions from customers can be answered correctly as well as the legal obligation to post up the applicable rates in post offices. 97% of the post offices checked are considered to be easily accessible, although accessibility of post offices and Postal Points for disabled persons is a worry.

Given that bpost is the main player on the Belgian postal market, that it is the universal service provider and that it is responsible for a number of services of general economic interest, BIPT considers it necessary to make the result of its monitoring of bpost in 2015 publicly available. This communication concerns certain legal obligations regarding quality, for which the legislator has not defined any specific monitoring tool and which therefore fall under BIPT's general control power. This monitoring took place in 2015 in 130 post offices and 111 Postal Points and concerns, among other things, the provision of oral and written information to users, the accessibility for disabled people and the opening hours.

Opinion of the European Commission of 29 October 2015 (BRxx 2012 addendum)