Decisions of 7 December 2018 and 9 July 2019 – Analysis of the fixed telephony access and call origination markets 2018

This decision waives the obligations previously imposed on Proximus on the fixed telephone access and call origination markets. These are now deregulated.

Following an appeal lodged by 3STARSNET, this decision was annulled by the Brussels Court of Appeal on 12 June 2019.

On 9 July 2019, BIPT adopted a renewal decision rectifying the annulled decision.

On 20 September 2019, 3STARSNET lodged an appeal against the renewal decision. On 22 January 2020, the Brussels Court of Appeal rejected this action for annulment.

Date	Title	Content type
03/02/2020	Judgement of the Brussels Court of Appeal of 22 January 2020 declaring unfounded the appeal lodged by 3StarsNet against the Decision of 9 July 2019 renewing the Decision of 7 December 2018 on the retail market for access to the public telephone network provided at a fixed location and on the wholesale market for call origination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location	Dispute
24/09/2019	Appeal lodged by 3STARSNET on 20 September 2019 against the Decision of 9 July 2019 (telephone access and call origination)	Dispute
24/07/2019	Decision of 9 July 2019 regarding the renewal of the decision of 7 December 2018 on the retail market for access to the public telephone network at a fixed location and on the wholesale market for call origination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location	Decision
28/06/2019	Judgement of the Market Court of 12 June 2019 annulling the Decision of 7 December 2018 on the retail market for access to the public telephone network provided at a fixed location and on the wholesale market for call origination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location	Dispute
11/03/2019	Judgement of the Market Court of 6 March 2019 declaring admissible the appeal for annulment of 21 January 2019 lodged by 3STARSNET against the Decision of 20 November 2018 regarding the analysis of the market for call termination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location	Dispute
19/02/2019	Application for suspension and annulment of 15 February 2019 lodged by 3STARSNET against the Decision of 7 December 2018 on the retail market of access to the public telephone network provided at a fixed location and on the wholesale market of call origination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location	Consultation
17/12/2018	Decision on access and call origination for fixed telephony	Decision
29/11/2018	Opinion of the European Commission of 29 November 2018 (markets 1/07 and 2/07)	Other
20/09/2018	Opinion of the Belgian Competition Authority of 20 September 2018 (markets 1/07 and 2/07)	Other
27/12/2017	Draft decision on the fixed telephony access and call origination markets	Consultation