Consequences acquisition Base only noticeable in 2018 – The Standard

             The acquisition of Base by Telenet redraws the Flemish telecom landscape in significant ways. But immediately it will not so much as brands.
         

Today, Telenet offers mobile services through the Mobistar network . It has therefore a ‘mvno’ Agreement with Mobistar. That contract runs until the end of 2017. Telenet intends to use that contract until the end.

That will required , because you will not absorb Base in only one , two, three. To begin with, there is a need approval from the competition authorities. There may be some time.

Once that is over, Telenet first like invest in the network Base. Because Telenet today has nearly 900,000 mobile customers using the Mobistar network. And that you can not move at once to the network of Base without increasing its capacity. Telenet aims in one go also perform the 4G plans Base accelerated.

It will even chore to make this all before January 1, 2018, it sounds in Mechelen . Fortunately, in the MVNO contact Mobistar built a transition period. Had to integrate Base not completely round expires when the contract with Mobistar, Telenet may still continue for a while through Mobistar.

For consumers will not immediately change much. Client Base continue until further notice Base. New mobile

customers Telenet will still make calls via Mobistar’s network. The Base & amp; Telenet shops remain separate for the time being continue working.

The only possible difference is that the investment of Telenet in the Base Network will be felt. By capacity increases and the accelerated expansion of the 4G network customers may soon Base higher performance expected. That is also the reason that Mobile Vikings, a virtual operator using the Base network, responding enthusiastically to the news.

The practical consequences for the consumer in so still a while in coming. But what may come sooner change is the Belgian telecom sector in its entirety. The acquisition of Base redraws the power relations thoroughly in the sector. The position of Mobistar, which only has a mobile network is even more precarious than it already was. How will own Orange handle this? What this will mean for the positioning of Proximus his rival at once looks much stronger? It raises the question to what extent this acquisition is the first domino to fall, in a sector that is completely shaken up.