Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications

Brussels, 21 January 2020 – In its decisions of 14 January 2020, BIPT imposed a € 150,000 fine on Proximus and a € 88,782 fine on Telenet for non-compliance with the regulation regarding the prior identification of end-users of prepaid cards. Several controls...

The study published by the BIPT on its website today reveals varying results for the comparison of the residential prices for telecom products in Belgium with its neighbouring countries. As regards the bundles that are most representative for our country (including an Internet speed of at least 100...

BIPT has updated its website bipt-data.bewith recent data on the quality of Belgian telecommunications networks. These data show that 97% of households have access to 100 Mbps via a fixed connection. 4G is available outdoors on 97% of the territory. A study reveals the high quality of voice and...

Brussels, 17 December 2019 - BIPT has published today a decision regarding the wholesale high-quality access market. High-quality services differ from “standard” broadband services by characteristics such as dedicated connections, symmetrical speeds or very limited packet loss. This concerns...

The observatory published by BIPT reveals that the postal market grew by 5% in 2018. The parcel and express segment even grew by 12.3%. This results in the need for all postal operators to have a wide postal points network.

Brussels, 22 October 2019 – Smartwatches, Bluetooth headphones, remote-controlled toys... are on all wish lists for Santa Claus. But are all the presents in Santa’s bag safe and legal? Download file (PDF 0.17 MB) > NL / FR

Brussels, 2 October 2019 – Apps to make calls or send messages over the Internet, the so-called “over-the-top” services (OTTs), such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are more and more popular. This is demonstrated by the latest consumer survey of BIPT. The satisfaction scores are...

Brussels, 27 September 2019 – BIPT has approved an average increase in the postal tariffs of bpost of 11.4%. As a consequence, as of 1 January 2020, bpost will be allowed to raise the tariffs for the small users basket, i.e. the national and international standard letters and parcels for private...

Brussels, 6 September 2019 – In a ruling of 4 September 2019 the Market Court considered unfounded the appeals of Telenet, Brutélé and Nethys against the decisions of the CRC of 29 June 2018 obliging them to open their networks to competitors.