With Digi, Belgium has acquired a telecommunications operator. And this is more than welcome, because until now there were only three players selling telecommunications bundles in our country. Digi’s prices are lower than those of its competitors.
Key information
- Belgium now has four fully-fledged telecommunications operators. The new player Digi will compete with Telenet, Orange and Proximus.
- Currently, it is only possible to obtain a mobile and internet subscription. Digi also wants to offer digital television next year.
- Digi’s prices are significantly lower than its competitors.
In the news: Proximus, Telenet and Orange have a new competitor since today. Now you can also get a telecom subscription from Digi.
- Who is the new actor? Digi Belgium is the result of an alliance between the Romanian telecommunications group Digi Communications and the Belgian company Citymesh, a sister company of the ICT group Cegeka. They won the mobile spectrum auction in 2022. Digi thus officially became the fourth operator in our country from that day on.
- The Time reports that Digi’s mobile offer is immediately available throughout Belgium. To do this, the company has concluded a national roaming agreement with Proximus, pending the construction of its own network.
- Digi is also working on its own fiber optic network. The objective is to cover all of Belgium within five years. Until then, Digi is collaborating with Proximus in places where the operator has not yet deployed its own fiber.
- Currently, the company only has its (own) optical fiber in the Cureghem district of Brussels.
- Currently, the company only offers mobile and internet subscriptions. It plans to soon offer digital television via Digi.
Digi dips below competitors’ prices
Details : You can sign up for a telecommunications contract with Digi starting today. The prices immediately attract attention because they are lower than those of the competition.
- A mobile subscription is already available from 5 euros per month. For this amount, you can make unlimited calls and texts and benefit from 15 GB of mobile data.
- With the other three telecommunications operators, you pay at least 14 euros per month.
- And also this: If you use more than the planned 15 GB, you pay 0.6 euros per additional GB.
- In addition, you can take out an internet subscription from 10 euros per month. For this amount you can surf and download (unlimited) at a speed of up to 500 Mbps. It is also possible to opt for another formula. If you pay 15 euros per month, the download speed increases to 1 Gbps. For 20 euros per month, it’s even 10 Gbps per month.
- Here again, Digi places itself significantly below the prices of its competitors. They offer plans whose price is at least 28 euros per month.
- Jeroen Degadt, CEO of Digi, told De Tijd that these are not temporary tariffs. “We have no plans to increase prices after the launch period,” he added. “Our ambition is to improve the product, not to make it more expensive.
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