BASE (mobile)
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BASE is a telephony
Telephony
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services and broadband internet brand
Brand
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operated by KPN Group Belgium/KPN
KPN
KPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Belgium
BASE is a brand of KPN Group Belgium.KPN Group Belgium is the third largest of Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
's three mobile telecommunications operator
Telephone company
A telephone company is a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many were at one time nationalized or state-regulated monopolies...
s. It competes with Proximus
Proximus
Proximus, also known as Belgacom Mobile, is the largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Mobistar, owned by France Télécom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom
Belgacom
The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
, and Mobistar
Mobistar
Mobistar is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
, a subsidiary of France Télécom
France Télécom
France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
. It is from October 2009 onwards also the name for its fixed line and broadband
Broadband
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ADSL operations formerly marketed under brand name Tele2
Tele2
Tele2 AB is a major European telecommunications operator, with about 34 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator and Internet service provider.- Overview :...
.
The KPN Group Belgium network is also used by a number of mobile virtual network operator
Mobile virtual network operator
A mobile virtual network operator is a company that provides mobile phone services but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service...
s: Simyo
Simyo
simyo is a no frills brand of a mobile virtual network operator operated by KPN in Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain.The company was founded in May 2005. Its headquarters are in Düsseldorf from a four-member team led by Rolf Hansen, the current CEO. Participation was initially...
(KPN), Tele2 Smart (Tele2), Aldi Talk
Aldi Talk
Aldi Talk is a mobile virtual network operator in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In Germany, it uses the E-Plus network. In Belgium, it uses Base...
(Medion Mobile), 1 Mobile
1 Mobile
Carrefour Mobile is a French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Polish and Belgian Mobile Virtual Network Operator, part of the Carrefour group.1 Mobile was the former brand name.-External links: ,,...
(Carrefour
Carrefour
Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...
& Effortel
Effortel
Effortel SA is a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler providing a platform-based transaction processing and management services for Mobile Virtual Network Operators , and acts as an MVNO itself in partnership with Carrefour.MVNE Services:* voice,...
), NRJ Mobile (NRJ Radio
NRJ Radio
NRJ French multimedia group based in Paris. Since its foundation in 1981 as a French pop music radio station it has grown and evolved to become the NRJ Group...
), Ortel Mobile (KPN), Al Yildiz, JIM Mobile (VMM
VMM
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), Mondial Telecom, Ello Mobile, Caleo Mobile, DixiTel, Ilyacom, Inphony Mobile, Mobile Vikings.
History
KPN Group Belgium was founded as Belgium's third mobile network operator in 1999 under the brandBrand
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name of KPN Orange. It was a joint-venture between the Dutch KPN Mobile and the, then British, Orange Mobile telcos. After the take-over of Orange mobile by France Télécom its shares in the company were sold to KPN Mobile. After a few years the brand name was changed from Orange to BASE. BASE has an estimated 98% coverage of the country and 26 % market share in mobile telephony.
The fixed line and broadband operations were acquired in 2007 by buying the Tele2 Belgian division.
KPN Group Belgium launched in the beginning of 2010 its 3G network HSDPA, a few years after having deployed a strong and spread 2G EDGE
Edge
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network all over Belgium.
Company
KPN Group Belgium claims to be "the fastest growing mobile operator in Belgium" with about 22 % market share. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of KPN Mobile, a subsidiary itself of KPNKPN
KPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
, 98 %, and NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo
is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...
, 2 %.
Technical information
The operator's display logo is BASE, the net code is 206 20 and operates under GSM 900/1800 net frequencies (2G GSM).Its prepaid service is called BASE prepaid.
Its postpaid service is called BASE postpaid.
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History
Since 2005, the BASE corporate identity and claim "freedom of speech" are also used by German operator E-PlusE-Plus
E-Plus is a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With 19.0 million subscribers, E-Plus is the third largest mobile operator in Germany, after T-Mobile and Vodafone ....
, also a subsidiary of KPN. E-Plus used the brand to promote a flatrate in which all calls to landlines and within the E-Plus network and all text messages within the E-Plus network are covered by a monthly charge of 25 euro. Beside, E-Plus sells an Android smartphone and tablet under the BASE Lutea brand coming with a built-in-flatrate for data access.