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The reason given is: Most ISPs listed don't exist anymore, and most stats are outdated..<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2022</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about telecommunications. For media, see <a href="/wiki/Media_of_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Belgium">Media of Belgium</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG/220px-3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG/330px-3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG/440px-3G_speed_brussel_sept_2012_IMG_2886.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2466" data-file-height="2776" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/3G" title="3G">3G mobile</a> data network speed test in downtown <a href="/wiki/City_of_Brussels" title="City of Brussels">Brussels</a>, September 2012. After 2 years of bans on new mobile basestations, the mobile network download speed is down at 0.25 Mbit/s.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Communications in Belgium</b> are extensive and advanced.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> possesses the infrastructure for both mobile and land-based telecom, as well as having significant television, radio and internet infrastructure. The <a href="/wiki/Country_code" title="Country code">country code</a> for Belgium is <b>BE</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services">Services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mail">Mail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_in_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="List of postal codes in Belgium">List of postal codes in Belgium</a></div> <p>Mail regulation is a national competency. Postal service in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> is in many cases performed by <a href="/wiki/Bpost" title="Bpost">Belgian Post Group</a>, a semi-private public company. Competitors include <a href="/wiki/DHL_Express" class="mw-redirect" title="DHL Express">DHL</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_Parcel_Service" title="United Parcel Service">UPS</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Belgium" title="Postal codes in Belgium">Postal codes in Belgium</a> consist of four digits which indicate regional areas, e.g. "9000" is the postal code for <a href="/wiki/Ghent" title="Ghent">Ghent</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Telephone">Telephone</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Telephone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Belgium" title="Telephone numbers in Belgium">Telephone numbers in Belgium</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_Bell_Telephone_Company" title="International Bell Telephone Company">International Bell Telephone Company</a></div> <p>The telephone system itself is highly developed and technologically advanced, with full automation in facilities that handle domestic and international telecom. Domestically speaking, the county has a nationwide <a href="/wiki/Mobile_phone" title="Mobile phone">cellular telephone system</a> and an extensive network of <a href="/wiki/Coaxial_cable" title="Coaxial cable">telephone cables</a>. Telephone regulation is a national competency. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Country_code" title="Country code">country code</a> for Belgium is <b>32</b> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_international_call_prefixes" title="List of international call prefixes">international call prefix</a> is <b>00</b>. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Telephone_number" title="Telephone number">telephone number</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> is a sequence of nine or ten numbers dialled on a telephone to make a call on the telephone network in Belgium. Belgium is under a <a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">closed</a> <a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan#Closed_dialing_plans" title="Telephone numbering plan">telephone numbering plan</a>, but retains the trunk code, "0", for all national dialling. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fixed_telephones">Fixed telephones</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Fixed telephones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There were 4.668 million land <a href="/wiki/Telephone" title="Telephone">telephone</a> lines in use in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> in 2007, a slight decrease on the 4.769 million in use in 1997. </p><p>The majority state-owned public <a href="/wiki/Telephone_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephone company">telephone company</a> of Belgium is <a href="/wiki/Proximus_Group" title="Proximus Group">Proximus</a>. Some other or private operators exist, as <a href="/wiki/Scarlet_(telco)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scarlet (telco)">Scarlet</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proximus_Group" title="Proximus Group">Proximus</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Base_(mobile_telephony_provider)" class="mw-redirect" title="Base (mobile telephony provider)">Base</a> (<a href="/wiki/Telenet" title="Telenet">Telenet</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mobile_telephones">Mobile telephones</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mobile telephones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Mobile_phone" title="Mobile phone">Mobile telephone</a> ownership has increased by nearly one thousand percent in the period 1997–2007, from 974,494 to 10.23 million. </p><p>There are three licensed <a href="/wiki/Mobile_network_operator" title="Mobile network operator">mobile network operators</a> (MNO) in Belgium, <a href="/wiki/Proximus" title="Proximus">Proximus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Belgacom" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgacom">Belgacom</a>), <a href="/wiki/Orange_Belgium" title="Orange Belgium">Orange Belgium</a> (<a href="/wiki/Orange_S.A." title="Orange S.A.">Orange S.A.</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Telenet_(Belgium)" class="mw-redirect" title="Telenet (Belgium)">Telenet</a>/<a href="/wiki/Base_(mobile_telephony_provider)" class="mw-redirect" title="Base (mobile telephony provider)">Base</a> and numerous <a href="/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator" title="Mobile virtual network operator">mobile virtual network operators</a> (MVNO). </p><p>A fourth license will be auctioned off by the government in January 2010. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet">Internet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Internet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There were 61 (2003) <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">internet service providers</a> in Belgium, serving 8.113 million <a href="/w/index.php?title=Internaut&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Internaut (page does not exist)">internet users</a> in 2009. The country code for Belgian websites is <a href="/wiki/.be" title=".be">.be</a>. </p><p>In September 2009 in Flanders there were 3,048,260 broadband internet customers (DSL and cable), of which 2,520,481 were residential users and 527,779 business users. Only 65,175 dial-up internet access accounts remained in the residential market and 9,580 in the business market. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Internet_providers">Internet providers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Internet providers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="xDSL_Internet_Providers">xDSL Internet Providers</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: xDSL Internet Providers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Belgium has numerous copper cable internet providers: </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Altercom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Altercom (page does not exist)">Altercom</a> *End service 2011</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Base_(mobile_telephony_provider)" class="mw-redirect" title="Base (mobile telephony provider)">Base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proximus" title="Proximus">Proximus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Destiny_(telco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Destiny (telco) (page does not exist)">Destiny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digiweb" title="Digiweb">Digiweb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EDPnet" title="EDPnet">EDPnet</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evonet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evonet (page does not exist)">Evonet</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_Telecom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Full Telecom (page does not exist)">Full Telecom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interxion" title="Interxion">Interxion</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=IPFix&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="IPFix (page does not exist)">iPFix</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=LCL_(telco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LCL (telco) (page does not exist)">LCL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobistar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mobistar">Mobistar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Orange_S.A." title="Orange S.A.">Orange S.A.</a>) *End service : 2013</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numericable" title="Numericable">Numericable</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=France_Numericable&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="France Numericable (page does not exist)">France Numericable</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Perceval_(telco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Perceval (telco) (page does not exist)">Perceval</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Portima (page does not exist)">Portima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proximedia_Group" title="Proximedia Group">Proximedia Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarlet_(telco)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scarlet (telco)">Scarlet</a> (<a href="/wiki/Belgacom" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgacom">Belgacom</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verizon_Business" title="Verizon Business">Verizon Business</a> (<a href="/wiki/Verizon_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon Communications">Verizon Communications</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ergatel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ergatel (page does not exist)">Ergatel</a></li></ul> <p>Only Belgacom and Numericable currently offers <a href="/wiki/Fixed_telephony" class="mw-redirect" title="Fixed telephony">fixed telephony</a> and <a href="/wiki/Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital television</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Triple_play_(telecommunications)" title="Triple play (telecommunications)">triple play</a> formula. All other companies offer also <a href="/wiki/Fixed_telephony" class="mw-redirect" title="Fixed telephony">fixed telephony</a> in a duo play formula. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Cable_Internet_Providers">Cable Internet Providers</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Cable Internet Providers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Belgium has three major fiberglass cable internet providers: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Num%C3%A9ricable" class="mw-redirect" title="Numéricable">Numéricable</a> for the Brussels region (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Ypso_Holding&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ypso Holding (page does not exist)">Ypso Holding</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telenet_(Belgium)" class="mw-redirect" title="Telenet (Belgium)">Telenet</a> for the Flanders and Brussels regions (<a href="/wiki/Liberty_Global" title="Liberty Global">Liberty Global</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VOO" title="VOO">VOO</a> for the Walloon and Brussels regions (<a href="/w/index.php?title=TECTEO&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TECTEO (page does not exist)">TECTEO</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_Belgium" title="Orange Belgium">Orange Belgium</a> use Telenet and VOO network combined</li></ul> <p>These companies all offer <a href="/wiki/Fixed_telephony" class="mw-redirect" title="Fixed telephony">fixed telephony</a> and <a href="/wiki/Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital television</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Triple_play_(telecommunications)" title="Triple play (telecommunications)">triple play</a> formula. </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Interoute_Managed_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interoute Managed Services (page does not exist)">Interoute Managed Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interxion" title="Interxion">Interxion</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=LCL_(telco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LCL (telco) (page does not exist)">LCL</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nucleus_(telco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nucleus (telco) (page does not exist)">Nucleus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verizon_Business" title="Verizon Business">Verizon Business</a> (<a href="/wiki/Verizon_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon Communications">Verizon Communications</a>)</li></ul> <p>These companies all offer specialised services. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Terrestrial_Internet_Providers">Terrestrial Internet Providers</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Terrestrial Internet Providers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clearwire" title="Clearwire">Clearwire</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ghent" title="Ghent">Ghent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leuven" title="Leuven">Leuven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aalst,_Belgium" title="Aalst, Belgium">Aalst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halle,_Belgium" title="Halle, Belgium">Halle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vilvoorde" title="Vilvoorde">Vilvoorde</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sprint_Nextel" class="mw-redirect" title="Sprint Nextel">Sprint Nextel</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Perceval_(telco)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Perceval (telco) (page does not exist)">Perceval</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Satellite_Internet_Providers">Satellite Internet Providers</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Satellite Internet Providers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Verizon_Business" title="Verizon Business">Verizon Business</a> (<a href="/wiki/Verizon_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon Communications">Verizon Communications</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="ISP_for_public_services">ISP for public services</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: ISP for public services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Brussels Regional Informatics Center (BRIC, Centre d'Informatique pour la Région Bruxelloise in French) offers Internet access to public administrations in the <a href="/wiki/Brussels-Capital_Region" class="mw-redirect" title="Brussels-Capital Region">Brussels-Capital Region</a>, relying directly on the national <a href="/wiki/Belnet" class="mw-redirect" title="Belnet">Belnet</a> network and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=IRISnet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="IRISnet (page does not exist)">IRISnet</a> network.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Not_categorized">Not categorized</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Not categorized"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Other ISP are <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chat.be&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chat.be (page does not exist)">Chat.be</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Connexeon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Connexeon (page does not exist)">Connexeon</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=HostIT&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HostIT (page does not exist)">HostIT</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Belgium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Microsoft Belgium (page does not exist)">Microsoft Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Netlog" title="Netlog">Netlog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ulysse" title="Ulysse">Ulysse</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ven_Brussels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ven Brussels (page does not exist)">Ven Brussels</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rack66_(EUSIP_bvba)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rack66 (EUSIP bvba) (page does not exist)">Rack66 (EUSIP bvba)</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=WSD_Hosting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WSD Hosting (page does not exist)">WSD Hosting</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Microwave_relay" class="mw-redirect" title="Microwave relay">microwave relay</a> network is, however, more limited. For international communications, Belgium has 5 submarine cables and a number of satellite earth stations, two of which are <a href="/wiki/Intelsat" title="Intelsat">Intelsat</a>, and one <a href="/wiki/Eutelsat" title="Eutelsat">Eutelsat</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/belgium/">"Belgium"</a>. 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title="Streaming television">streaming</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Early_history:_telegraph_and_coaxial_cables" title="Submarine communications cable">Undersea telegraph line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_videotelephony" title="History of videotelephony">Videotelephony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whistled_language" title="Whistled language">Whistled language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wireless_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Wireless revolution">Wireless revolution</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pioneers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nasir_Ahmed_(engineer)" title="Nasir Ahmed (engineer)">Nasir Ahmed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong" title="Edwin Howard Armstrong">Edwin Howard Armstrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_M._Atalla" title="Mohamed M. Atalla">Mohamed M. Atalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Logie_Baird" title="John Logie Baird">John Logie Baird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Baran" title="Paul Baran">Paul Baran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bardeen" title="John Bardeen">John Bardeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell" title="Alexander Graham Bell">Alexander Graham Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emile_Berliner" title="Emile Berliner">Emile Berliner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Blake_(inventor)" title="Francis Blake (inventor)">Francis Blake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose" title="Jagadish Chandra Bose">Jagadish Chandra Bose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bourseul" title="Charles Bourseul">Charles Bourseul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain" title="Walter Houser Brattain">Walter Houser Brattain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Chappe" title="Claude Chappe">Claude Chappe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yogen_Dalal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yogen Dalal">Yogen Dalal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Davis_Jr." title="Daniel Davis Jr.">Daniel Davis Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Davies" title="Donald Davies">Donald Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_Dolbear" title="Amos Dolbear">Amos Dolbear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth" title="Philo Farnsworth">Philo Farnsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden" title="Reginald Fessenden">Reginald Fessenden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisha_Gray" title="Elisha Gray">Elisha Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside" title="Oliver Heaviside">Oliver Heaviside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hooke" title="Robert Hooke">Robert Hooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover" title="Erna Schneider Hoover">Erna Schneider Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Hopkins_(physicist)" title="Harold Hopkins (physicist)">Harold Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardiner_Greene_Hubbard" title="Gardiner Greene Hubbard">Gardiner Greene Hubbard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Internet_pioneers" title="List of Internet pioneers">Internet pioneers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Kahn" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Kahn">Bob Kahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawon_Kahng" title="Dawon Kahng">Dawon Kahng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Kao" title="Charles K. Kao">Charles K. Kao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narinder_Singh_Kapany" title="Narinder Singh Kapany">Narinder Singh Kapany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr" title="Hedy Lamarr">Hedy Lamarr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Landell_de_Moura" title="Roberto Landell de Moura">Roberto Landell de Moura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Innocenzo_Manzetti" title="Innocenzo Manzetti">Innocenzo Manzetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi" title="Guglielmo Marconi">Guglielmo Marconi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe" title="Robert Metcalfe">Robert Metcalfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Meucci" title="Antonio Meucci">Antonio Meucci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Morse" title="Samuel Morse">Samuel Morse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jun-ichi_Nishizawa" title="Jun-ichi Nishizawa">Jun-ichi Nishizawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grafton_Page" title="Charles Grafton Page">Charles Grafton Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radia_Perlman" title="Radia Perlman">Radia Perlman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Stepanovich Popov">Alexander Stepanovich Popov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tivadar_Pusk%C3%A1s" title="Tivadar Puskás">Tivadar Puskás</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Reis" title="Johann Philipp Reis">Johann Philipp Reis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Shannon" title="Claude Shannon">Claude Shannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger" title="Almon Brown Strowger">Almon Brown Strowger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Sutton_(inventor)" title="Henry Sutton (inventor)">Henry Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sumner_Tainter" title="Charles Sumner Tainter">Charles Sumner Tainter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Tissot" title="Camille Tissot">Camille Tissot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Vail" title="Alfred Vail">Alfred Vail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Watson" title="Thomas A. Watson">Thomas A. Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Wheatstone" title="Charles Wheatstone">Charles Wheatstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin" title="Vladimir K. Zworykin">Vladimir K. Zworykin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Transmission_medium" title="Transmission medium">Transmission<br />media</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coaxial_cable" title="Coaxial cable">Coaxial cable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication" title="Fiber-optic communication">Fiber-optic communication</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Optical_fiber" title="Optical fiber">optical fiber</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free-space_optical_communication" title="Free-space optical communication">Free-space optical communication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molecular_communication" title="Molecular communication">Molecular communication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_wave" title="Radio wave">Radio waves</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wireless" title="Wireless">wireless</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Albania" title="Telecommunications in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Andorra" title="Telecommunications in Andorra">Andorra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Armenia" title="Telecommunications in Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Austria" title="Telecommunications in Austria">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Azerbaijan" title="Telecommunications in Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Belarus" title="Telecommunications in Belarus">Belarus</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Telecommunications in Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Bulgaria" title="Telecommunications in Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Croatia" title="Telecommunications in Croatia">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Cyprus" title="Telecommunications in Cyprus">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Czech_Republic" title="Telecommunications in the Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Denmark" title="Telecommunications in Denmark">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Estonia" title="Telecommunications in Estonia">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Finland" title="Telecommunications in Finland">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_France" title="Telecommunications in France">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Georgia_(country)" title="Telecommunications in Georgia (country)">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Germany" title="Telecommunications in 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title="Telecommunications in Lithuania">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Luxembourg" title="Telecommunications in Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Malta" title="Telecommunications in Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Moldova" title="Telecommunications in Moldova">Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Monaco" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications in Monaco">Monaco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Montenegro" title="Telecommunications in Montenegro">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Netherlands" title="Telecommunications in the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_North_Macedonia" title="Telecommunications in North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Norway" title="Telecommunications in Norway">Norway</a></li> <li><a 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