Ik zeg nog altijd Belgacom want hun service is nog altijd even slecht als vroeger. Heb er indertijd genoeg problemen met gehad.
Alweer een grote die de kleine concurrenten er uit wil.
Starlink to the rescue.
Proximus komt hier niet binnen.
Telenet ook niet.
Doomed
wow, just wow, and the worse thing is the politicians allow this because they know there will be a board position waiting for them afterwards.
I switched to EDPNet Mobile after Mobile Vikings turned to shit when Proximus bought them.
Not sure who I’ll switch to when EDPNet turns to shit too.
Nooooooooo.
Snappen ze wel dat iedereen die edpnet gebruikt juist niet bij proximus of telenet wil? Als proximus edpnet overneemt ga ik gwn naar een andere onafhankelijke…
Oh please no, if this goes through they’d cut the unlimited quota instantly I’d guess. Edpnet is such a great provider (for those in range of a distribution point) I’d be really sad if this passes and decrease the competition in this small market even more…
Start our own Edpnet 2.0? (Partially a real question here sadly, however I’m slightly aware of the costs required to even start, let alone make the operation profitable over time) 😐
God, ik hoop dat citymesh zo snel mogelijk focust op particulieren.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
NONOONONONONONONONONONONONONONONON
Jesus fucking christ they are going to fuck us over on the internet side, they had the most solid offer of most of the providers in Belgium.
Time to prove worthy of our tax money BIPT!
Indeed. Bad for competition.
Also…
>Het telecombedrijf uit Sint-Niklaas kan in ieder geval niet onafhankelijk blijven, want het torst een grote schuldenberg met zich mee. Uit gerechtelijke documenten die onze redactie kon inkijken blijkt Edpnet voor in totaal bijna negen miljoen euro schulden te hebben bij grootbank KBC, maar ook bij concurrenten Proximus (ruim 2,6 miljoen euro) en Orange (ruim 315.000 euro).
How did they manage that? Seriously, 12 million in debt? You don’t just arrive there from one day to the next. What went wrong? I can’t imagine this is all due to big salaries and stuff… I wonder how much banks and companies gave loans with impossible interests.
Being a small company often means you get squeezed way harder than bigger companies. Maybe as a society we should look into that? It’s not a question: we should absolutely look into it and do things to forbid it and protect smaller businesses from being squeezed by big ones.
Went to edpnet to get away from Proximus years ago… “ewwwww” is about all I can mister at this point.
Say hello to Data Caps!
Seriously, is this legal? My internet was working fine until they made “adjustments” without telling me and after months of trying to realize what was going on (i could barely open a few youtube tabs, especially when it was raining/bad weather/cold outside) i made an upgrade to the internet…
And now after 1 week i could say it’s definitely better!
Exactly what i was suspecting in the first place, they changed something without notifying me whatsoever and tried to blame me for this!
And i’m pretty sure i’m not the only person in this situation after reading their reviews with 99% of people more than unhappy about proximus internet!
Huge oof
Edpnet was geweldig toen ik in BE woonde. Goede support, niet duur, nemen niet aan dat je incapabel bent (eigen router is normaal bv.)
Telenet is een drama
Been using EDPnet since November 2021 after leaving MobileVikings due to the Proximus acquisition. I had 0 technical issue with them. The only little problem was recurring payment failed in October, so about 6 months ago, when they switched banks. I thought it was weird but OK. It still being problematic (according to their own emails) was strange but now it makes more sense.
Sadly they don’t seem to manage their business well. I absolutely don’t want more market consolidation but I also have to see when a company is not actually working and look for alternatives. Not sure what is still possible now but suggestions welcome for mobile provider.
And the deal will go trough without issue because who needs competition in a a capitalist market anyway right?
God i hate our isp market situation beyond my ability to put it in to words.
*But they are laying fiber, and there is lots of them offering it!*
I live in a <1K village that the city it’s under forgets about al year except for when its elections, or when taxes are collected. That is literally only just now getting connected to a sewer system that does not just trow everything in a nearby creek.
We will be dead last to get fiber from anyone, by which time all of these new isp’s wil be swallowed up by telenazi & proxislet, or they will be allowed to ask such absurdly high costs for using the networks from telenet & proximus that they are out of business by then, i guarantee it.
I think at some point i will have to dig a ditch with the world’s longest ethernet cable in it, to tap off my internet from outside the country.
I would rather do that than having to pick between stalinnet or hitlermus.
If BIPT wasn’t the toothless tiger it is, it would refuse Proximus acquiring EDPNet on the grounds of eliminating competition and monopolizing the providers market. But alas… It will be Orange then as a quasi independent provider.
Oh cool. I just switched to edp to get away from Proximus last week.
Complain all you want. I understand this is bad for the consumer as we have almost no choices outside of the big guys. But edpnet really isn’t the saint underdog some make it out to be. Their consistency is pretty bad with many outages, latency is all over the place, they can’t seem to run the company without gathering a huge debt, and at the end of last year they openly admitted to still using Russian subcontractors.
Zaten in slechte papieren dus maar normaal daze overgenomen worden
>Het telecombedrijf uit Sint-Niklaas kan in ieder geval niet onafhankelijk blijven, want het torst een grote schuldenberg met zich mee. Uit gerechtelijke documenten die onze redactie kon inkijken blijkt Edpnet voor in totaal bijna negen miljoen euro schulden te hebben bij grootbank KBC, maar ook bij concurrenten Proximus (ruim 2,6 miljoen euro) en Orange (ruim 315.000 euro).
>
>Nadat er geen akkoord met de schuldeisers uit de bus kwam, besloot de ondernemingsrechtbank van Dendermonde dat Edpnet verkocht moest worden. Met de opbrengst van die verkoop kunnen schulden afgelost worden.
Oof… Ja, da’s natuurlijk geen goed nieuws voor EDPnet.
In een ideale wereld zou de regering moeten voorkomen dat Proximus of Telenet overneemt en de kans geeft aan Orange en Citymesh. Maar da’s echt wishful thinking helaas :-/ Zeker gezien Proximus een grote schuldeiser is en duidelijk mogelijke compromissen aan het blokkeren is uit eigenbelang.
Alsook, ongeacht wie de firma overneemt, het gouden tijdperk van EDPnet is duidelijk voorbij. Die schulden gaan op een of andere manier moeten verwerkt worden – en da’s altijd bij de klant dat ze dat geld gaan halen…
Zijn er alternatieven voor internet via kabel?
Voor gsm gebruik ik proximus herlaadkaart (ik probeer toe te komen met 1 keer per jaar herladen voor 5 euro). Mobiele data via een esim van keepgo, dat werkt internationaal (ook al ben ik zelden in het buitenland) en kost me maar in de buurt van 60 euro per jaar. Het is toch wel straf dat een buitenlandse provider goedkoper is voor mobiele data in België dan de lokale afzetters.
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Ik zeg nog altijd Belgacom want hun service is nog altijd even slecht als vroeger. Heb er indertijd genoeg problemen met gehad.
Alweer een grote die de kleine concurrenten er uit wil.
Starlink to the rescue.
Proximus komt hier niet binnen.
Telenet ook niet.
Doomed
wow, just wow, and the worse thing is the politicians allow this because they know there will be a board position waiting for them afterwards.
I switched to EDPNet Mobile after Mobile Vikings turned to shit when Proximus bought them.
Not sure who I’ll switch to when EDPNet turns to shit too.
Nooooooooo.
Snappen ze wel dat iedereen die edpnet gebruikt juist niet bij proximus of telenet wil? Als proximus edpnet overneemt ga ik gwn naar een andere onafhankelijke…
Oh please no, if this goes through they’d cut the unlimited quota instantly I’d guess. Edpnet is such a great provider (for those in range of a distribution point) I’d be really sad if this passes and decrease the competition in this small market even more…
Start our own Edpnet 2.0? (Partially a real question here sadly, however I’m slightly aware of the costs required to even start, let alone make the operation profitable over time) 😐
God, ik hoop dat citymesh zo snel mogelijk focust op particulieren.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
NONOONONONONONONONONONONONONONONON
Jesus fucking christ they are going to fuck us over on the internet side, they had the most solid offer of most of the providers in Belgium.
Time to prove worthy of our tax money BIPT!
Indeed. Bad for competition.
Also…
>Het telecombedrijf uit Sint-Niklaas kan in ieder geval niet onafhankelijk blijven, want het torst een grote schuldenberg met zich mee. Uit gerechtelijke documenten die onze redactie kon inkijken blijkt Edpnet voor in totaal bijna negen miljoen euro schulden te hebben bij grootbank KBC, maar ook bij concurrenten Proximus (ruim 2,6 miljoen euro) en Orange (ruim 315.000 euro).
How did they manage that? Seriously, 12 million in debt? You don’t just arrive there from one day to the next. What went wrong? I can’t imagine this is all due to big salaries and stuff… I wonder how much banks and companies gave loans with impossible interests.
Being a small company often means you get squeezed way harder than bigger companies. Maybe as a society we should look into that? It’s not a question: we should absolutely look into it and do things to forbid it and protect smaller businesses from being squeezed by big ones.
Went to edpnet to get away from Proximus years ago… “ewwwww” is about all I can mister at this point.
Say hello to Data Caps!
Seriously, is this legal? My internet was working fine until they made “adjustments” without telling me and after months of trying to realize what was going on (i could barely open a few youtube tabs, especially when it was raining/bad weather/cold outside) i made an upgrade to the internet…
And now after 1 week i could say it’s definitely better!
Exactly what i was suspecting in the first place, they changed something without notifying me whatsoever and tried to blame me for this!
And i’m pretty sure i’m not the only person in this situation after reading their reviews with 99% of people more than unhappy about proximus internet!
Huge oof
Edpnet was geweldig toen ik in BE woonde. Goede support, niet duur, nemen niet aan dat je incapabel bent (eigen router is normaal bv.)
Telenet is een drama
Been using EDPnet since November 2021 after leaving MobileVikings due to the Proximus acquisition. I had 0 technical issue with them. The only little problem was recurring payment failed in October, so about 6 months ago, when they switched banks. I thought it was weird but OK. It still being problematic (according to their own emails) was strange but now it makes more sense.
Sadly they don’t seem to manage their business well. I absolutely don’t want more market consolidation but I also have to see when a company is not actually working and look for alternatives. Not sure what is still possible now but suggestions welcome for mobile provider.
And the deal will go trough without issue because who needs competition in a a capitalist market anyway right?
God i hate our isp market situation beyond my ability to put it in to words.
*But they are laying fiber, and there is lots of them offering it!*
I live in a <1K village that the city it’s under forgets about al year except for when its elections, or when taxes are collected. That is literally only just now getting connected to a sewer system that does not just trow everything in a nearby creek.
We will be dead last to get fiber from anyone, by which time all of these new isp’s wil be swallowed up by telenazi & proxislet, or they will be allowed to ask such absurdly high costs for using the networks from telenet & proximus that they are out of business by then, i guarantee it.
I think at some point i will have to dig a ditch with the world’s longest ethernet cable in it, to tap off my internet from outside the country.
I would rather do that than having to pick between stalinnet or hitlermus.
If BIPT wasn’t the toothless tiger it is, it would refuse Proximus acquiring EDPNet on the grounds of eliminating competition and monopolizing the providers market. But alas… It will be Orange then as a quasi independent provider.
Oh cool. I just switched to edp to get away from Proximus last week.
Complain all you want. I understand this is bad for the consumer as we have almost no choices outside of the big guys. But edpnet really isn’t the saint underdog some make it out to be. Their consistency is pretty bad with many outages, latency is all over the place, they can’t seem to run the company without gathering a huge debt, and at the end of last year they openly admitted to still using Russian subcontractors.
https://issues.edpnet.be/?p=3842
Zaten in slechte papieren dus maar normaal daze overgenomen worden
>Het telecombedrijf uit Sint-Niklaas kan in ieder geval niet onafhankelijk blijven, want het torst een grote schuldenberg met zich mee. Uit gerechtelijke documenten die onze redactie kon inkijken blijkt Edpnet voor in totaal bijna negen miljoen euro schulden te hebben bij grootbank KBC, maar ook bij concurrenten Proximus (ruim 2,6 miljoen euro) en Orange (ruim 315.000 euro).
>
>Nadat er geen akkoord met de schuldeisers uit de bus kwam, besloot de ondernemingsrechtbank van Dendermonde dat Edpnet verkocht moest worden. Met de opbrengst van die verkoop kunnen schulden afgelost worden.
Oof… Ja, da’s natuurlijk geen goed nieuws voor EDPnet.
In een ideale wereld zou de regering moeten voorkomen dat Proximus of Telenet overneemt en de kans geeft aan Orange en Citymesh. Maar da’s echt wishful thinking helaas :-/ Zeker gezien Proximus een grote schuldeiser is en duidelijk mogelijke compromissen aan het blokkeren is uit eigenbelang.
Alsook, ongeacht wie de firma overneemt, het gouden tijdperk van EDPnet is duidelijk voorbij. Die schulden gaan op een of andere manier moeten verwerkt worden – en da’s altijd bij de klant dat ze dat geld gaan halen…
Zijn er alternatieven voor internet via kabel?
Voor gsm gebruik ik proximus herlaadkaart (ik probeer toe te komen met 1 keer per jaar herladen voor 5 euro). Mobiele data via een esim van keepgo, dat werkt internationaal (ook al ben ik zelden in het buitenland) en kost me maar in de buurt van 60 euro per jaar. Het is toch wel straf dat een buitenlandse provider goedkoper is voor mobiele data in België dan de lokale afzetters.