I always wonder why internet and mobile data services are too high in Belgium. I went to Poland, Italy, France and some other Balkan countries and internet and mobile data services was cheap. For example operator Orange:
-In France for 100gb and 5G data you pay 17€ monthly
-In Belgium for the first year you pay 22€ for 90gb and after first year you pay 35€ monthly.

The datas might be wrong I checked it from Orange websites for both country.

So its almost 2x higher. I just wonder the background of it. Does anyone knows the reason?

by ShCoflin

6 comments

  1. Also, there are other EU countries that ranked higher than Belgium but Im talking about the countries I mentioned so the point is here why not like France for example. Just wondering.

  2. no experts, though when these things ussually get brought up it gets mentioned that those countries have more competitors for internet and mobile data than Belgium, keeping prices more competitive and thus lower

    also something something telenet mafia /j

  3. How many providers exist in France? Companies can only select Telenet or Proximus in Flanders.

  4. Hmmm…but is it only internet and mobile data though? Overall isn’t everything more expensive here?

  6. Because there is basically no competition. Belgium has effectively only 2 operators. City mesh is the new one but it’s minuscule compared to Orange and Proximus. Telemetry as well, it is quite small compared with the other big ones and I don’t think it has the mobile infrastructure to compete.All the others are virtual operators. I still don’t understand how Proximus was allowed to buy Mobile Vikings without antitrust repercussions.

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