BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

Belgium
1 Market developments
1.1 Incumbent
1.1.1.1 Actual roll-out
BoR (11) 06b
� Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out in your country. Consider the following aspects
- name of the operator and applied technology (e.g. FTTH GPON, FTTH P2P, FTTB,
VDSL, Cable);
Belgacom has launched a VDSL2 retail offer in April 2008 after halting deployment of
VDSL in 2006 due to spectral interference with ADSL technologies.
The driver of the deployment is the competition with television services of cable
companies, because VDSL2 makes it possible to offer at least one HD and one SD
channel at the same time.
Field trial of FTTH is ongoing, however vectoring and bonding on VDSL2 should be an
alternative to FTTH deployment.
- current coverage of the network and number of NGA lines (passed/connected). Please
provide figures as of June 30 2010;
Present coverage VDSL + VDSL2 is 74% of home passed.
- available retail services (e.g. product name, type of service (e.g. triple play), bandwidth,
price level, price structure).
A lot of different products in terms of bandwidth and in terms of bundles exist (including
bundles with mobiles). The standard bandwidth is 12-25 Mbps. The triple play bundles
(Internet – Telephone – Digital television/VOD) are distinguished based on the internet
usage:
� comfort bundle: 51,40€/month (12Mbps, 50Gb volume)
� favourite bundle: 61,80€/month (25Mbps, 100Gb volume)
� intense bundle: 69,60€/month (30Mbps, unlimited volume)
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