Reports appear to be updated frequently. The table of contents is available so you can see exactly what each report covers. In the third year of the liberalization of the Belgian telecommunications market, national operator Belgacom remains by far the most important telecom operator. The entire telecommunications sector continues to grow at a high rate. The telecom services market in Belgium is expected to increase by 12 percent in 2000.
Mobile telecommunications is still the fastest growing segment of all telecommunications services.
This amount represented 43 percent of the traffic on the fixed network. There are currently 3.7 million mobile telephone users in Belgium. Proximus, the network of Belgacom Mobile, remains the GSM market leader in Belgium with a market share of 67.6 percent. The other two Belgian GSM operators, Mobistar, and Orange, share the additional 1.2 million users. UMTS services should be available during 2003.