Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Mobistar stops internet, fixed telephony and television - The News

Telecom Operator Mobistar apron from 22 May sales on the Internet, fixed telephony and television to new residential customers. The company says to get that fixed line products of the consumer ‘pending a favorable regulation’, as it sounds Wednesday in a press release.

From May 22, the fixed services, which the company buys Belgacom, no longer offered to the residential market. For existing residential customers of Internet and fixed telephony, the ‘continuity guaranteed. With TV, the company stops completely on 15 September. All affected customers contacted. Towards the end of May The company offers an alternative solution for satellite TV providers Flanders and TéléSAT. For the professional market, nothing changes at Mobistar.

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Mobistar is the current regulatory impossible to offer fixed services by using the network of the incumbent operator Belgacom. profitable use in the residential market Mobistar believes that the ‘residential market for fixed-line services in Belgium is sufficiently competitive, so it is no longer possible in a cost effective way to provide those services. Customers’

The operator retrieves the press release include the mobile market, where more than 40 players are active. The residential market for fixed-line services will be dominated again by a duopoly of the incumbent operator (Belgacom) and cable companies (Telenet in Flanders, Fo in Wallonia). “The historical operator indexes the rates of fixed-line services regularly, while we find that the rates on the market of mobile telephony by more than 10 percent annually bags’, it sounds at Mobistar CEO Jean-Marc Harion.

CEO asks a framework that can guarantee healthy competition, and that “that no longer favors incumbents. He also points out that the share of alternative operators in Belgium fell to 7 percent, while 50 percent is higher than in neighboring countries.

Harion considers “opening up the cable as the best option to Belgian consumers to provide a broadband connection. The first steps towards the opening of the cable according Mobistar ‘promising but still inadequate. In February, the CEO said at the presentation of the annual results that Mobistar hopes to sell.

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