Following the publication of a consumer-focused comparative study on the price level of telecommunications services in Belgium compared to other selected European countries, the Belgian national telecommunications regulatory authority BIPT/IBPT has commissioned a similar study to look at the non-residential market and compare business price levels across the same set of countries.
This study has been conducted by the Teligen division of Strategy Analytics Ltd., and reports on the prices of such services for professionals and small and medium enterprises in Belgium compared with France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
The study uses a basketmethodology to compare the telecommunications charges paid by eight types of business entities, which are constructed to represent different combinations of services and usage levels.
The analysis considers costs for each business type when services are purchased singly to make up the communications requirements of the business, as well as costs when multiplay offerings are used.