BELTUG activities and achievements

BELTUG brings ICT professionals together. You can meet colleagues, exchange knowledge and hear the views of others. Don’t miss these invaluable opportunities! We organise a range of activities related to communication technology and services:

 

Our executive event, with a high-level program and keynote speakers. The place to be for networking, with about 300 business users, providers, integrators, government representatives, etc.

Find out the latest news on communications services and BELTUG. Join about 100 other members for this event.

Every September, BELTUG invites all members for a cultural day trip with your partner.

Concise and to-the-point dissection of a topic. Half-hour presentation followed by discussion between the (maximum) 25 participants. An unmissable occasion to exchange ideas.

 

In addition to live meetings, we offer executive summaries, reports and papers on the priorities and subjects that you as a Manager are concerned about, based on our annual survey carried out in June. This information can be downloaded directly from our Members’ Only section.

 

BELTUG supports and represents ICT users to government, associations and the private sector. Our many success stories show how our efforts help strengthen the position of Belgian users, here and abroad.

 

BELTUG plays a major role in the DNS.be and EURid non-profit organisations responsible for the .be and .eu domain names. As of May 2008, there are almost 800.000 .be names and 2,780,000 .eu names registered. Read more.

As an active member of the International Telecoms Users Group, BELTUG participates in lobbying and developing common user positions internationally. Thanks to BELTUG’s initiative, national users can now exchange views and positions at INTUG meetings. Read more.

 

BELTUG submitted an amendment for the telecoms legislation to restrict the definition of “operator.” Thanks to the acceptance of this amendment, organisations such as banks, government departments, hospitals, etc are not classified as “operators” and are not subject to the same duties and restrictions. Read more.

 

The Fixed-to-Mobile Barometer brings transparency to the rates charged to users by fixed operators, following the decrease in termination rates of the fixed operators to the mobile operators. With the Barometer, it is clear to what extent providers are passing on the decreased costs to the end-user. Read more.

 

The BELTUG ICT Press Monitor (paying service), compiled by Armada, provides you with a daily overview of the complete ICT news from more than 20 different national and international media. You can even have a complete copy of the articles that interest you. Read more.

BELTUG was asked by the 4 major banks in Belgium, plus Euroclear, to carry out a provider survey on Business Continuity. The final documentation provided by BELTUG exceeded even the expectations of the Committee for Financial Stability. Read more.

 

BELTUG was a leader in the introduction of electronic invoicing, from the 1990s, working together with Belgacom and the Platform of Telecoms Operators to prepare an exhaustive file for the Ministry of Finance. BELTUG also convinced Proximus, Mobistar and Verizon Business (Worldcom at that time). Read more.

 

In order to help ICT departments to improve their relations with their internal clients, BELTUG carried out a survey in May 2006 to provide an objective view of the expectations and perceptions of e.g. the heads of business lines and the functional departments supported by ICT. Read more with a link to the study.

 

Each year, from 1998-2003, BELTUG carried out a survey among professional ICT users on their assessment of the fixed, mobile and Internet providers in the market. This survey was key in assisting organisations to become familiar with the new players entering the Belgian telecoms market after liberalisation. Read more.

 

After liberalisation of the telecoms market in Belgium, it was quite difficult for organisations to assess the competitiveness of providers’ tariffs. BELTUG established an index in which each provider would indicate the tariffs that would be charged for several fictitious business cases. The indices were updated every 6 months until 2004, when the market was more mature. Read more.