Content dedicated to Public Services
This page expands on the GIA or Gigabit Infrastructure Act, a European Regulation including measures to reduce the roll-out costs of telecom networks by focussing on sharing infrastructure and on co-executing civil works.
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Any company that wants to offer publicly available electronic communications services or public electronic communications networks has to notify the BIPT in the sense of the Act of 13 June 2005 on electronic communications (Art. 9 ECA). The list of registered telecom operators can be found here.
Telecom operators have certain rights but the same goes for the owners of a building.
This page gives an overview of the operators registered with the BIPT as providers of fibre services in Belgium. The survey lists the operators who provide (part of) their services by means of fibre, even if the services themselves may vary strongly from operator to operator. In addition, an operator's fibre offer may also depend on the location. The survey contains the following lists:
What is optical fibre and how does it work? This page contains a short introduction to this technology.
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These pages will offer you an answer to a number of general questions about fibre.
Fibre networks are the future for digital communication. But what are the pros and cons of fibre and what can we use them for? You will find a brief survey on this page.
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Every network operator who has his own network can choose between several topology options to roll out optical fibre. This choice depends, among other things, on what kind of public he wants to reach (homes or industrial estates), the population density and on whether he wants to roll out a complete or partial optical fibre network.
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The European Commission wishes to prepare Europe for a digital future in the coming years. In that context, she has set out multiple goals, among which there is connectivity. Fibre plays an important part in this. In order to be able to achieve these goals, different legislative and other initiatives have been launched, which are briefly discussed on this page.
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