Belgacom

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.belgacom.be

Belgacom doesn't waffle when it comes to providing telecommunication services. The company offers traditional fixed-line, mobile, and Internet services to consumers and businesses in the Benelux region: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Belgacom owns Belgacom Mobile, which operates as Proximus, a provider of wireless telecom services to more than 4 million subscribers. It offers a range of corporate information technology services through its Telindus subsidiary. The company also offers wholesale service to other telecom service providers. The Belgian government owns just over half of Belgacom.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $8,548.6M
One year growth: (4.2%)
Net income: $1,350.3M
Income growth: (4.2%)

Officers:
Chairman: Théo Dilissen
President, CEO, and Director: Didier Bellens
CFO and EVP Finance: Ray Stewart

Competitors:
France Telecom
KPN
Tele2 Netherlands

Skynet is the cross media company of the Belgacom Group

History

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• 1995: Three friends install a router, some modems and a server in a kitchen. Skynet is founded. One year later they have several hundreds of customers.

• 1996: The Belgian national phone company Belgacom targets the Residential Internet Market and takes a share of 25% in Skynet. Later that year Belgacom buys the entire company and becomes the market leader in the Residential Internet Market. Skynet changes its name to Belgacom Skynet.

• 1999: Belgacom Skynet is the first Belgian internet service provider to earn an ISO 9001 quality certificate.

• 2000: Belgacom Skynet becomes part of the French group Infosources, which is part of Belgacom.

• 2002: The Belgacom Skynet share is no longer quoted. The company is now completely part of Belgacom.

• 2004: All access infrastructure was moved to Belgacom. Skynet stopped providing internet access to focus on its portal site. Belgacom's internet access division is now official known as Belgacom ADSL.

External links

• Skynet
• Belgacom

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